Department of Health has funded CMHL as part of the Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management (MARAM) Capacity Building Project. MARAM ensures services are effectively identifying, assessing and managing family violence risk.
The funding will be used to undertake the below activities:
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Establishing an advisory group to identify priority areas for capacity building
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Delivering eight – 12 webinars on priority areas identified by the advisory group
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Creating a community of practice to enable peer reflection and shared learning
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Developing MARAM resources for designated mental health services, in collaboration with Specialist Family Violence Advisors (SFVAs)
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Providing advanced practice sessions to SFVAs and family violence champions
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Workforce development support for Specialist Family Violence Advisors
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Targeted MARAM information sessions at the request of individual service
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Targeted work across specific workforces such as infant mental health, child and youth, and older persons
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Targeted work with early career clinicians
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Targeted work to support workforce development in relation to working with adults using violence
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Targeted work to support workforce development in relation to children and young people as victim-survivors of family violence in their own right, and children and young people that use family violence
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Targeted MARAM focused work with lived experience in mental health workforces
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Supporting the workforce to achieve the new family violence capability in the revised Mental Health and Wellbeing Workforces Capability Framework (to be published in 2023).
