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Reconciliation Action Plan Launch
The Orange Door Partnership
DPV Health works closely with Family Safety Victoria at five Orange Door locations across north-east Melbourne, to provide support to people affected by family violence.
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Across the Orange Door sites, DPV Health delivers coordinated services with our partners: Kids First, Berry Street, Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency (VACCA) and the Victorian Department of Families, Fairness and Housing.
DPV Health led the development of three new purpose-built satellite sites for the Orange Door in Epping, Coburg and Sunbury and is now working on a new site in Craigieburn, providing our communities with much-needed support. Partnership between services is key to make sure that individuals and families can find help whenever they need it.
Using Practise Knowledge and Collaboration to Support Families Affected by Family Violence
“A client presented at the Sunbury Orange Door as a male victim survivor. The incident involved a physical altercation between 2 male adults in front of a child. Upon investigating, it was identified that the client had several police registered family violence incidents with the child’s mother, where he was listed as a respondent. The Orange Door practitioner collaborated with a child wellbeing (CWB) practitioner and integrated practice lead (IPL) to assess the child’s wellbeing and understand their experience of violence, while exploring the best service system response to offer a wraparound support for the child.
As a person using violence (PUV) practitioner, my focus was to apply a person-centre approach when engaging with my client, while addressing concerns around the wellbeing of the child who had been a witness to altercations between their father and uncle and exposed to family violence between their parents. With support from the IPL and the CWB practitioner, I completed the CWB assessment of the child. Remaining curious with the case rather than accepting the narrative of the referral invites us to explore and collect information to identify the needs and experiences of the child and to gain insights into the dynamics of the family, with the child at the centre. We were able to identify mum’s protective factors and dad’s historical use of violence. This experience is a great example of evolving practise, enhancing our practise knowledge, and working collaboratively with our colleagues to leverage their specialisation in the interest of supporting the families affected by family violence.”
