Regional Integration
Regional Integration
Regional Integration Committees
Family violence Regional Integration Committees (FVRICs) are a vital part of Victoria’s family violence system.
Regional Integration Committees bring together representatives from regional family violence services and other key sectors and services, including child and family services, child protection, mental health services, homelessness services, housing services, courts, police and Indigenous Family Violence Regional Action Groups.
Principal Strategic Advisors
Each Regional Integration Committee is convened by a Family Violence Principal Strategic Advisor (PSA). The PSAs work to drive the local implementation of key family violence reforms in their area, build partnerships and collaborate across sectors, build workers’ capability and provide insight into operations, issues, functions and opportunities in their region.
Find out more in the Family Violence Regional Integration fact sheet
See below for contact details for PSAs and (where available) websites for each region.
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Region |
PSA |
Phone number |
Regional website |
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Northern Metropolitan |
Sarah Johnson email |
9484 1666 |
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Eastern Metropolitan |
Christine Robinson email |
9259 4320 |
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Southern Melbourne |
Michelle Kiernan email |
0413 888 164 |
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Bayside Peninsula |
Rosemary Burrell email |
0411 225 082 |
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Western Metropolitan |
Renee Cumming email |
9689 9588 |
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Central Highlands |
Jess Cadwallade email |
5322 4100 |
N/A |
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Ovens Murray |
Tricia Hazeleger email |
0427 659 721 |
N/A |
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Goulburn Valley |
Alison Maclean email |
5722 3009 |
N/A |
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Loddon Campaspe |
Lisa Levis email |
5430 3000 |
N/A |
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Mallee |
Jason Spratt email |
5022 5417 |
N/A |
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Barwon |
Elaine Williams email |
5245 2816 |
N/A |
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Gippsland |
Melanie Brown email |
5143 1600 |
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Wimmera and South West |
Ilona Carson (South West) email Mandy Noble (Wimmera) email |
55611934 |
N/A |
Strengthening Family Violence Regional Integration – A Monitoring, Research and Evaluation Framework for FVRICs
The Family Violence Principal Strategic Advisors (PSAs) for Victoria’s Family Violence Regional Integration Committees (FVRICs) and Domestic Violence Victoria (DV Vic) are pleased to share Strengthening Family Violence Regional Integration – A Monitoring, Research and Evaluation Framework for Family Violence Regional Integration Committees (FVRICs).
This initiative, delivered by The University of Melbourne in partnership with The Family Violence PSAs for Victoria’s FVRICs, is designed to increase evidence-informed decision making by the 14 FVRIC across Victoria, leading to more coordinated responses to family violence, improved safety for victim survivors and increased perpetrator accountability.
This framework has been developed by a team from the Department of Social Work, University of Melbourne in collaboration with the 14 FVRICs through a project named RICKIE (Regional Integration Committee Key Information and Evidence) during 2019-20, with support from DV Vic, the peak body for Specialist Family Violence Services in Victoria. Family Safety Victoria, established in July 2017 to deliver family violence reform and drive action to end family violence, also provided input to the project.
Research Team, University of Melbourne: David Rose, Gemma McKibbin, David Gallant, Stuart Ross, Arno Parolini, Wei Tan, Kristin Diemer, Cathy Humphreys
This project is part of the Family Violence Sector Capacity Building Program, generously funded by Gandel Philanthropy, the William Buckland Foundation, Give Where You Live Foundation, State Trustees Australia Foundation, the Victorian Women’s Benevolent Trust and the Johnstone Gumption Fund and the Jump Start Fund, sub-funds of Australian Communities Foundation.
Framework Launch
The Framework was launched at an online event held on the 20th of July 2020. Here is an excerpt from the launch, with a presentation from the research team and members of the project Reference Group.