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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DFFH Area |
Committee |
website |
PSA |
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Phone |
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BARWON |
Barwon Area Integrated Family Violence Committee |
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Elaine Williams |
03 5245 3145 |
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CENTRAL HIGHLANDS |
Central Highlands Integrated Family Violence Committee |
Dr Jess Cadwallader |
03 5322 4100 |
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WESTERN MELBOURNE & |
Western Integrated Family Violence Committee |
Renee Cumming |
03 9689 9588 |
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WIMMERA SOUTH WEST (South West) |
Wimmera South West Area Integrated Family Violence Partnership (South West) |
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Ilona Carson |
03 5561 1934 |
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WIMMERA SOUTH WEST (Wimmera) |
Wimmera South West Area Integrated Family Violence Partnership (Wimmera) |
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Andrew Parsons (Acting PSA) |
03 5358 7411 |
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OUTER EASTERN MELBOURNE |
Eastern Metropolitan Region Family Violence Partnership |
Christine Robinson |
03 9259 4320 0437 004 306 |
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GOULBURN |
Goulburn Integrated Family Violence Committee |
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Alison Maclean |
Alison 0429 198 046 0408 336076 |
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OVENS MURRAY |
Ovens Murray Integrated Family Violence Committee |
https://upperhumepcp.com.au/ovens-murray-family-violence-partnership/ |
Alison Maclean & (job share) |
Alison 0429 198 046 0408 336076 |
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INNER GIPPSLAND & |
Gippsland Family Violence Alliance |
Kim Adams |
03 5143 1600 |
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BAYSIDE PENINSULA |
Bayside Peninsula Integrated Family Violence Partnership |
Rose Burrell |
0411 225 082 |
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SOUTHERN MELBOURNE |
Southern Melbourne Integrated Family Violence Partnership |
NA |
Nicole Simpson |
03 8792 8999 |
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LODDON CAMPASPE |
Loddon Campaspe Integrated Family Violence Committee |
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Lisa Levis |
03 5430 3000 |
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MALLEE |
Mallee Family Violence Executive |
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Donna Strong |
03 5025 5417 |
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NEMA & |
Northern Integrated Family Violence Service |
Ronnie (Veronica) Hunt |
03 9484 1666 |
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.