RICKIE Launch A Monitoring, Evaluation and Research Framework for Family Violence Regional Integration Committees 20 July 2020 Framework available at: https://www.thelookout.org.au/family-violence- workers/regional-integration
Stren engthen ening Family V Violen ence R e Regional Int nteg egration – A Mo Monitori ring, R , Research rch a and Evaluation Framew ework f for F Family V Violen ence Regional I Integ egration C Committees ees 10.30 Welcome and Alison Macdonald, DV Vic acknowledgements Emma Morgan, DV Vic 10.40 Project Introduction Project Reference Group Members FVRIC PSA Alison Maclean & FVRIC Auspice Robyn Trainor 10.55 Framework Presentation and Project Research Team Development Process The University of Melbourne Cathy Humphreys, David Rose and Gemma McKibbin 11.20 Moderated Q&A Alison Macdonald, DV Vic 11.30 Wrap Up and Next Steps Project Reference Group Member FVRIC PSA John Duck
Acknowledgement of Country 3
The F Fam amily V ly Viol olence P Philan anthrop opy C Collab labor orat atio ion P Proj oject The F Famil ily Vio Viole lence S Sec ector or C Capacity B Buil ilding Pr Program This project is part of The Family Violence Sector Capacity Building Program, generously funded by Gandel Philanthropy, The William Buckland Foundation, Give Where You Live Foundation, State Trustees Australia Foundation, The Victorian Women’s Benevolent Trust and the Johnstone Gumption Fund and the Jump Start Fund, sub-funds of Australian Communities Foundation Acknowledgements
RICKIE Project introduction Project Reference Group Members FVRIC PSA Alison Maclean & FVRIC Auspice Robyn Trainor
What are Family Violence Regional Integration Committees? (AM) Established in 2006 Local governance structures that exist to improve integration of the family violence system and responses to victim survivors and perpetrators Broad membership, reach and influence Priority areas include: • Governance and system leadership • Integration of Reform Initiatives • Workforce development • Service data collection and local area profiling
Some of our current work (AM) Regional integration and vertical integration Supporting the Family Violence reform agenda • MARAM – mapping agency responsibilities and training • Information Sharing, including the production of supporting videos and workbooks • Supporting changes associated with the Gender Equity legislation • Exploring the use of the Community Services Quality Governance Framework to support regional integration • Research • Student Placements
Data (AM) Are we improving the lived experience for people who experience family violence?
The RICKIE Project (RT) Strategic planning remains an incredibly important mechanism for supporting the core functions of regional integration committees, with four key goals identified in the RICKIE Project proposal: Determining FVRIC research and evaluation needs Reviewing data set access and identify any gaps in data Undertaking regionally disaggregated data analysis Developing a Family Violence Regional Integration Committee Research and Evaluation Framework
FV Integration (RT) Family Violence Regional Integration and System Leadership Committees were developed in 2006, to maintain a strong focus on regional service and system coordination and provide a structure for service and system integration. Family violence integration is about coordinating responses to family violence through the implementation of policy and practice, to ensure that community and service responses are tilted towards the safety of women and children and the accountability of perpetrators. It is also about working together with a shared understandings, common frameworks and building family violence workforce capability and capacity.
There is plenty of ‘data’ in the system: funded agencies, non-funded agencies, Victoria Police, and the Court system all gather, collect and to varying degrees communicate data and information about family violence. However there is no common system of data collection (RCFV, Chapter 39, reference to Recommendations 203, 204, 205 and 206) BUILD SERVICE COLLABORATION WORKFORCE DATA SYSTEM SYSTEM AND SYSTEM AND DEVELOPMENT REFORMS ADVOCACY PARTNERSHIP INTEGRATION Establish strong Develop data Map and monitor Build regional Build data supported and ethical local and regional capacity for data monitoring and partnerships to informed decision data trends and access, sharing and evaluation guide evaluation making and themes analysis capability and and research to monitoring Capability and capacity within capacity Monitoring Evaluation Service and systems Research contribute to the processes regionally SFVIAC and RIC’s Develop Tailor data access evidence base and state-wide partnerships and and capture to data to build a evaluate and Implement a Build capacity and Provide regional represent regional common data structures to opportunities to foundation for needs and dashboard and include and contribute to an social planning and contribute to structure for represent lived evidence base and decision making reforms monitoring and experience to system planning evaluation contribute to systems change
Framework presentation and development process Project Research Team The University of Melbourne Cathy Humphreys, David Rose and Gemma McKibbin
MREF – Process and Outcome (CH) Introduction to ‘the team’ Capacity Building + MREF output Interviews and workshops (Gemma McKibbin) MREF (David Rose) Next steps
Introductions – Our team (CH) Dr Gemma McKibbin Prof Cathy Humphreys Prof Stuart Ross A/Prof David Rose Dr Kristin Diemer David Gallant Dr Arno Parolini Wei Tan 14
Building on previous work (CH) Healey, L. and Humphreys, C. and Wilox, K. (2013) Regional Governance Continuum Matrix of Practice for Domestic and Family Violence-Sexual Assault Partnerships: Background to the Practice Tool, Topic Paper 21, Australian Domestic Violence Clearinghouse, UNSW. https://www.nifvs.org.au/wp- content/uploads/2016/03/Governance-and-interagency-responses-Improving- practice-for-regional-governance-%E2%80%93-a-Continuum-Matrix-2013.pdf The FVRICs are well placed to “support and report on implementation of data system reforms, data collection and analysis” RCFV Vol 6 p124 Kwok (2018). Family Violence Regional Integration Project: Strengthening the case for the future of regional integration
The RICKIE Project (CH) Two Primary Aims: 1) Capacity building and co- design of the Monitoring, Evaluation Research Framework (MERF) 2) Delivering the MERF No magic bullet ‘here is all your data analysed’
Developing the Framework (GM) • Action research • Semi-structured interviews • Three workshops – the data parties! 17
Interviews (GM) • 12 Semi-structured interviews • Some group, some individual • 26 participants - including PSAs, RIC Chairs and other key stakeholders • Interview schedule covered: • What monitoring and evaluation questions do you have for your RIC? What do you want to know? Why do you need to answer those questions? • In an ideal world, what monitoring and evaluation data would your RICs have access to? And in what form? Would all RICs have access to this data? (as raw data, processed data or KPI reports) • What are the primary sources of monitoring and evaluation data that your RIC currently has access to? And how does this come to the RIC? Do you get this regularly or irregularly? Is the data you receive easy or difficult to interpret? • What data does your RIC need access to but cannot get? Why can’t you get it? What’s the impact of not having these data? • How might your RIC use and data collected to improve responses to family violence across the service system? • SWOT analysis of the qualitative data 18
Interview findings (GM) Strengths • Getting access to • Access to • Using data to: • Challenges related to Weaknesses/challenges Opportunities Threats (limited) data sets comprehensive and implementation of o understand gaps, • Strengthening relevant data sets the (welcome) reform patterns and • Current boundaries agenda governance pathways in the • Impact of funding arrangements and for DHHS and DSS region strategic priorities reporting are not fully arrangements and o inform system’s • Trying out new ways aligned with FVRICs competitive tendering advocacy and local • The reported data • Difficulty of of using data like the area planning Data Press in Central from government maintaining regional, o evaluate the Highlands organisations is not rural and remote effectiveness of • Developing this always accessible to lenses linkages between • Lack of funding FVRICs shared MERF services in the region • Skills and knowledge support for data o answer research in understanding, projects questions at a local analysing and level applying data •Collaborating with FSV re gaining access to Orange Door data 19
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