Indigenous Family Violence Partnership Forum

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Indigenous Family Violence Partnership Forum

• Update, March 2005

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IFVS Background

• Indigenous Family Violence Task Force Final
  Report launched December 2003
• The Victorian Government Response to the Final
  Report released 11 October 2004

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Outline

• Partnership
• Local Community Solutions
• Membership of the Partnership Forum

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Indigenous Family Violence Partnership Forum

• Partnership is more than consultation
• Partnership is about equal and meaningful
  participation
• Partnership involves Indigenous Communities at
  every step along the way
• Ten-year Indigenous Family Violence Agreement

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Local Community Solutions

• Local Indigenous Family Violence Action Groups
• Recognising local Community initiatives to
  prevent, reduce and respond to Indigenous family
  violence

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Membership of the Partnership Forum

• Government
• Department for Victorian Communities
• Department of Premier and Cabinet
• Department of Justice
• Department of Education and Training
• Australian Government
• Victoria Police
• Statewide Steering Committee to Reduce Family
  Violence

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Membership of the Partnership Forum

• Indigenous Community
• Chairs, IFV Regional Action Groups
• Chair, Indigenous Family Violence Task Force
• Chair, Indigenous Womens Ministerial Advisory
  Committee
• Indigenous member from the Aboriginal Justice
  Forum
• Indigenous member from the DHS Aboriginal Forum
• Regional Koorie Education Committees
• Indigenous experts/specialists working in family
  violence