DHHS Funded Flexible Family Violence Support Packages (North East Catchment) Guidelines for Professionals Background Anglicare Victoria has secured funding to deliver four-hundred and ninety-five (495) Family Violence Support packages for individuals escaping family violence and living in the Metropolitan Region of Melbourne Banyule, Darebin, Nillumbik, Whittlesea and – Yarra. Purpose Post crisis Flexible Family Violence Support packages are one of three inter-related components of Family Violence Service. The High Risk Family Violence DHHS’s High Risk Service provides case management to individuals with or without children experiencing family violence to access a range of services to support them to live free from violence and rebuild their lives. These three components include: Case management support, for up to 13 weeks on average, to women with or without children at high risk from family violence to enable them to live free from violence and achieve safe and secure long-term housing and assistance. This may involve a referral to the multi-agency risk assessment and management panel (RAMP). The RAMP brings together Victoria Police, corrections, health, child protection, Child FIRST/Integrated Family Services, housing and family violence, to share information and plan for the safety of women and children, who have fled a family violence situation, especially those at high risk of serious injury or death, and to increase the accountability of perpetrators. Post Crisis Flexible Family Violence Support Packages provide brokerage funding for post crisis support packages to assist individuals with or without children who are being supported to leave/or have already fled a high risk family violence situation & who may have been referred to RAMP. The package seeks to provide an individualised response to individuals/families for the payment of specific services/items identified in their case management plan. Available Funds Four-hundred and ninety-five (495) individualised packages ($3000-7000 though usually – capped at an average of $3,000) are available throughout this financial year. Capping around the average is to ensure that we support as many individuals/families as possible with the funds we have allocated. Target Group Packages are targeted to individuals with or without children living in the North-Eastern Metropolitan Region of Melbourne who: Are escaping and /or have recently experienced family violence & where a RAMP referral may have been made because of high risk and /or Are planning to leave an abusive situation or have the perpetrator removed from the family home with appropriate legal sanctions in place.
DHHS Funded Flexible Family Violence Support Packages (North East Catchment) Guidelines for Professionals Background Anglicare Victoria has secured funding to deliver four-hundred and ninety-five (495) Family Violence Support packages for individuals escaping family violence and living in the Metropolitan Region of Melbourne – Banyule, Darebin, Nillumbik, Whittlesea and Yarra. Purpose Post crisis Flexible Family Violence Support packages are one of three inter-related components of DHHS’s High Risk Family Violence Service. The High Risk Family Violence Service provides case management to individuals with or without children experiencing family violence to access a range of services to support them to live free from violence and rebuild their lives. These three components include: Case management support, for up to 13 weeks on average, to women with or without children at high risk from family violence to enable them to live free from violence and achieve safe and secure long-term housing and assistance. This may involve a referral to the multi-agency risk assessment and management panel (RAMP). The RAMP brings together Victoria Police, corrections, health, child protection, Child FIRST/Integrated Family Services, housing and family violence, to share information and plan for the safety of women and children, who have fled a family violence situation, especially those at high risk of serious injury or death, and to increase the accountability of perpetrators. Post Crisis Flexible Family Violence Support Packages provide brokerage funding for post crisis support packages to assist individuals with or without children who are being supported to leave/or have already fled a high risk family violence situation & who may have been referred to RAMP. The package seeks to provide an individualised response to individuals/families for the payment of specific services/items identified in their case management plan. Available Funds Four-hundred and ninety-five (495) individualised packages ($3000-7000 – though usually capped at an average of $3,000) are available throughout this financial year. Capping around the average is to ensure that we support as many individuals/families as possible with the funds we have allocated. Target Group Packages are targeted to individuals with or without children living in the North-Eastern Metropolitan Region of Melbourne who: Are escaping and /or have recently experienced family violence & where a RAMP referral may have been made because of high risk and /or Are planning to leave an abusive situation or have the perpetrator removed from the family home with appropriate legal sanctions in place.
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