The Mallee Family Violence Executive (MFVE) is one of 13 Family Violence Regional Integration Committees (FVRICs) across Victoria. The MFVE provides strategic leadership, advocacy, and specialist expertise to strengthen effective responses to family violence across the local service system, to help end family violence in the Mallee.
The Mallee Area is defined by the Victorian Department of Families, Fairness, and Health (DFFH), comprising off our Local Government Are’s (LGA’s), Mildura, Swan Hill, Buloke and Gannawarra. Our members are made up of both services providers and other stakeholders that contribute to family violence service responses across the Mallee, representing government and non-government organisations. MFVE’s members commit to strengthening the family violence system in the Mallee and ending gendered violence. Funding is auspice through a local organisation approved by DFFH. Mallee Sexual Assault Unit Mallee Domestic Violence Service (MSAU-MDVS) holds the contract, and oversees the role of the Principal Strategic Advisor.
OUR VISION
A community that is free from gendered violence. Where all people live free from gendered violence, and the fear of gendered violence: where people are treated with equality and respected.
OUR PURPOSE
MFVE to strengthen and improve family violence system integration across the Mallee. We do this through leadership, partnerships. influence and advocacy, to address ending family violence in our region.
What we do
The MFVE provides leadership, advocacy, and specialist expertise to strengthen, integrate and improve the family violence system and help end family violence across the Mallee Area.
Our members are guided by: • Our Vision • Our Purpose • Our Local Priorities
The work of the MFVE is guided by our Strategic Plan. Members of the MFVE work together supported by our Partnership Agreement.
To find out more information on Family Violence Regional Integration Committee's and what they do view the fact sheet below:
Strengthen MFVE’s position and role in influencing and contributing to the systems-level reform of Ending Family Violence.
Ensure that all statewide initiatives are relevant to the Mallee in terms of the safety of women and children, holding perpetrators to account and gender equality.
Workforce
Strengthen Mallee’s workforces for effective family violence response and primary prevention actions.
Ensure that state-wide reform initiatives focusing on workforce development are relevant to and benefit Mallee’s workforces.
Integration
Ensure effective integration occurs in the Mallee at multiple levels
Primary Prevention
Voice the primary prevention goals and activities available in the Mallee. Support agencies to embed primary prevention principles in their practice.
Governance
Strengthen our structures and processes for the effective governance of integration in the Mallee in the context of Ending Family Violence and its reform agenda.
Build effective linkages (or measures) with Mallee governance structures
Build effective linkages with state-wide entities important to the reform agenda.
Enhance MFVE’s position as the point of strategic contribution, coordination, and communication for the implementation of initiatives under Ending Family Violence.
Our Governance Structure
Established in 2007 under the Victorian family violence reforms, Family Violence Regional Integration Committees (FVRICs) provided a governance structure to improve the integration between services responding to family violence in the local regions.
The Royal Commission into Family Violence (RCFV), which concluded in 2016, dramatically changed the landscape of Victoria’s family violence system. The RCFV provided a once-in-a-generation opportunity to examine our system from the ground up and put victim survivors at the centre of family violence reform. Ending Family Violence: Victoria’s plan for change is the Victorian Government’s plan to deliver on all 227 recommendations.
A key finding of the RCFV was the need for a more integrated service delivery to provide effective responses to people experiencing violence and strengthen the service system to keep those who choose to use violence in view and hold them to account.
It identified the requirement for a strong 'systems focus' to achieve change at the local level and the importance of linking state-wide policy and planning with an understanding of local issues. The RCFV recognised the value of formally linking the area-based FVRIC's with the state-wide governance of the family violence reforms - RCFV’s Recommendation 193.
Principal Strategic Advisor (PSA) The Principal Strategic Advisor provides expertise, leadership and oversight of the work of the MFVE, providing advice to the committees, government and local services, coordinating capacity building initiatives and maintaining strategic relationships with key stakeholders.
MFVE Chair The MFVE is supported by a Chair. The Chair is elected or appointed by the MFVE and is accountable to the MFVE. The Chair's role is the maintain focus on the strategic priorities of the MFVE and guide decision making.
Auspice Agency Mallee Sexual Assault Unit Mallee Domestic Violence Service as the auspice agency for the MFVE, and manages funding attached the MFVE, employs the PSA, and provides the mechanism to support the MFVE and its strategic priorities.
Working Groups To enable the MFVE to achieve system reform at the regional level, working groups are developed. Working groups are accountable to the MFVE and the Strategic Plan.
Integrating family violence services to reduce violence against women and children
