Family Violence Community information online – Ethnic Council of Shepparton and District

The Goulburn Family Violence Executive are delighted to offer a series of monthly community information sessions about family violence. This month the Family Violence Implementation Monitor’s team will speak about their recent annual report reflecting on the reform and its achievements and challenges.

In May 2021, as an independent statutory officer, Jan Shuard PSM, the Family Violence Reform Implementation Monitor, tabled her report to Parliament. The Monitor is required by legislation to table an annual report to Parliament each year from 2017 to 2020.

The Monitor’s fourth report focuses on the following themes chosen as monitoring priorities for 2020:

What has changed since the Royal Commission into Family Violence?
Implementation reviews
Workforce
Children as primary victims of family violence
Safe Housing
Perpetrator accountability
Adolescents who use violence in the home
Voices of victim survivors
COVID-19 response
Maintaining momentum: What remains to be done?

The Monitor also provides her commentary and overview of the reforms in a report’s foreword.

The team will share her key findings from the 2020 report, discuss what remains to be done and outline the next steps in monitoring the family violence reforms.

Friday 25 June from 8:00am – 8:45am
Online with ZOOM – a link will be sent to you when you register here.

For more information or to register call Katie H on 03 58237059.

Family Violence statistics

One in three women has experienced physical violence since the age of 15
Almost one in five has experienced sexual violence.
One in four women in Australia have experienced violence by a partner.
On average, one woman is killed every week at the hands of their partner
Violence against women and their children doesn’t just have a human cost. The economic cost to Australia is around $22 billion each year. Without action, this will rise to $30 billion by 2022. (KPMG 2016)

If you or anyone you know needs immediate help with family violence call 000 or for some advice contact Safe Steps on www.safesteps.org.au or call 1800 015 188

Integrated Family Violence Services

	The Ethnic Council of Shepparton and District acknowledges the Yorta Yorta People of the land which comprises the Goulburn Valley. We pay respect to tribal Elders, past, present and emerging and we celebrate their continuing culture and acknowledge the memory of their ancestors.
	The Ethnic Council of Shepparton and District is a peak body whose mission is to promote and represent the social, cultural and economic well-being of ethnic communities in the Goulburn Valley Region through the provision of quality and innovative settlement, refugee support, community development, and information and advocacy services.