About Mallee Family Violence Executive

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. 
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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
Empowered communities and a responsive system unite to prevent family violence and build a safe, thriving Mallee for all.
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.
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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:
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MFVE Mallee Strategic Priorities

Integration

Strengthen cross-sector integration to ensure coordinated, transparent and accessible family violence responses for victim survivors, persons using violence, children and young people.

Reform

Strengthen prevention, cultural responsiveness and community leadership to reduce family and sexual violence through coordinated, evidence-informed and locally driven initiatives across the Mallee.

Evidence

Strengthen the use of data, lived experience, and evidence-based practice to inform decision-making, collaboration and continuous improvement across the Mallee Family Violence system.

Workforce

Build a confident, skilled and well-supported family violence workforce through targeted training, cross-sector collaboration and access to specialist expertise, with a focus on person using family violence interventions and referral pathways.

Governance

Strengthen collective leadership, accountability and communication to ensure the Mallee Family Violence Executive provides clear direction, promotes collaboration and drives system improvement across the region.

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 Independent Chair is responsible for maintaining the Committee’s strategic focus and guiding decision-making by consensus at bi-monthly meetings. The Chair meets regularly with the PSA to plan MFVE Governance meetings, including setting priorities for the agenda and reviewing associated papers.

Auspice Agency
The MFVE PSA and Independent Chair operate under the auspice of Mallee Sexual Assault Unit Mallee Domestic Violence Service to support the implementation of the MFVE and its strategic priorities. As the auspice agency, Mallee Sexual Assault Unit Mallee Domestic Violence Service manages the brokerage funds attached to the MFVE and provides human resource and information technology support to the MFVE Team.

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.  

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