VU23650 - Identify and respond to family violence risk

Unit code: VU23650 | Study level: TAFE
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Overview

This unit describes the outcomes, skills and knowledge required to identify the presenting risk of family violence and provide a response appropriate to the individual. This includes engaging with the individual in a respectful, sensitive and safe manner; using identification tools appropriate to the individual; seeking and sharing risk-relevant information; and contributing to coordinated ongoing risk assessment and management.
This unit applies to:
• professionals who have responsibilities under Victoria’s Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management Framework (MARAM Framework) due to working within prescribed organisations, and
• professionals who voluntarily align to MARAM as best practice in Victoria, but who do not work within prescribed organisations.
This unit includes the foundational understanding of family violence and risk required by those undertaking further levels of specialisation in family violence risk assessment and management.

Assessment

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce & extend knowledge and skill competence within set & controlled parameters in accordance with each unit's learning outcomes & performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work-based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:
• Work in accordance with the values, policies, procedures and tools of Victoria’s Family Violence Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management Framework (MARAM Framework) to identify and respond to family violence risk for each of the following three (3) cohorts:

  • at least one (1) adult victim survivor, and
  • at least one (1) victim survivor who is a child or young person (using a parent/guardian/advocate for information or directly with the child or young person), and
  • at least one (1) adult using family violence.
    In the course of the above, the candidate must:
    • Use identification tools that:
  • have been developed in accordance with the MARAM Framework requirements
  • are the correct tool for the individual.
    • Engage with individual in a respectful, sensitive and safe way as determined by the MARAM Framework, including using a trauma and violence-informed approach.

Required reading

The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by Victoria University and/or via the Victoria University e-learning system.

As part of a course

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