Demonstration Projects: Therapeutic Interventions for Family Violence Victim Survivors

⁠⁠⁠The Department of Health and Human Services is seeking suitably qualified and experienced service providers to establish demonstration projects across Victoria that deliver:
* Client centred trauma informed therapeutic responses for victims of family violence, including adults and children
* Evidence informed approaches to service design and delivery
* Models of intervention targeted to diverse populations, including but not limited to Aboriginal peoples, people from culturally diverse backgrounds, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) identified people, people with disabilities and older people.

This Advertised Call for Submission for Family Violence Therapeutic Interventions Demonstration Projects aims to deliver against Royal Commission recommendations 11, 23, 104, 146 (Part thereof). These recommendations are directed at improving the accessibility of the current service system, seizing opportunities to transform the way the system responds to family violence, and supporting the service delivery sector to strengthen and enhance its therapeutic response to victim survivors of family violence, including adults and children.

The aims of the demonstration projects are:
* To strengthen therapeutic responses to victim survivors of family violence and improve outcomes, by allowing service providers to grow their collective knowledge and expertise through the delivery of the demonstration projects.
* To build evidence about effective practice approaches for responding to victim survivors of family violence, including victim survivors from diverse populations.
* To determine, through an evaluation, how these approaches might be incorporated into future service delivery frameworks and organisational operating models.

To increase access to a broad range of therapeutic approaches to family violence victim survivors including adults and/or children across diverse cohorts.