Frontline Voices – Family Domestic and Sexual Violence, including Child Sexual Abuse (FDSV): Transforming Primary Care Responses through Co-Design
Western Victoria Primary Health Network (WVPHN) envisions a future where primary healthcare professionals in western Victoria are empowered with the essential knowledge, skills, and resources to effectively transform primary care responses to family, domestic, and sexual violence, including child abuse (FDSV).
WVPHN is expanding our existing Family Violence Pilot to include Sexual Violence (SV) and Child Sexual Abuse (CSA). To successfully incorporate SV and CSA into our revised Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence (FSDV) pilot, the voices of primary care, specialised Sexual Violence, including Child Sexual Abuse Specialised Services, and People with Lived Experience will be critical to the overall success of the project.
In line with our strategic priority of Co-Design to Expand Scope, we are committed to equipping General Practices (primary healthcare professionals) in western Victoria with the tools and knowledge to effectively respond to cases of Sexual Violence and Child Sexual Abuse.
INFORMATION UPDATE
March 2025
Three New Sexual Violence Service Providers Join our Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence Pilot
In a significant step towards bolstering primary care responses to Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence (FDSV), including child sexual abuse, three new service providers have joined Western Victoria Primary Health Network’s (WVPHN) FDSV Pilot Project to provide Sexual Violence Integrators.
The Sexual Assault and Family Violence (SAFV) Centre, Ballarat Centre Against Sexual Assault (Ballarat CASA), and Southwest Centre Against Sexual Assault (SWCASA) were all successful in an open tender to provide the bespoke role of Sexual Violence Integrators. They join the existing Family Violence Integrator providers, the Centre for Non-Violence and Grampians Community Health; Southwest CASA now provides both Family Violence and Sexual Violence Integrators.
Aligning with the pilot’s existing Family Violence Integrators, the Sexual Violence Integrators will provide in-the-field FDSV training and support-service delivery to general practices and other providers across the WVPHN region.
The inclusion of the Sexual Violence Integrator roles into WVPHN’s FDSV pilot (2023-2026) marks a pivotal moment in our ongoing efforts to address FDSV in western Victoria. Adding Sexual Violence Integrators will further strengthen and expand the primary care support available to victims and survivors, ensuring they receive the right care at the right time, within a trauma-informed and person-centred response framework.
By integrating the FDSV expertise and support available to primary care, the pilot program will be better equipped to offer multidisciplinary integrated support and intervention strategies by both family violence and sexual violence specialists located within western Victoria. This collaborative approach underscores WVPHN’s commitment to creating a safer and more responsive primary care environment.
WVPHN will be offering opportunities for general practices and other primary care providers in our region to apply for the free and incentivised FDSV Training and Support Program over the course of 2025-2026, continually tailoring and adapting the program to suit primary health services in our region. These opportunities will be promoted via WVPHN’s website, Westvic News, and direct promotion to our primary care stakeholders.
For more information, or to be kept directly informed please email fdsvproject@westvicphn.com.au
Tender Open
08 November 2024
Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence, including Child Sexual Abuse (FDSV) Pilot Project 2023 –2026; Sexual Violence Integrator(s) – WSTVIC-1112941
WVPHN invites suitably qualified and experienced organisations, with the capability and capacity to deliver at least one, and up to three, FDSV-SV Integrator Role(s) across WVPHN Region, to submit a tender response.
Aligning with the existing FVC roles, servicing the western Victorian region, the SV Integrators will play a critical role to support the program’s transition from family violence focus, to now include sexual violence, and child sexual abuse. Aimed at enhancing capacity and capability of general practices, and primary care providers to recognise, respond, refer patients at risk of, or experiencing family, domestic, and sexual violence including child sexual abuse, the family violence connectors, and sexual violence integrators will form a team of specialised FDSV commissioned services to deliver tailored bespoke training to primary care services, and enhance coordination and integration of FDSV services across the local primary care sector.
This tender closes Friday 29 November 2024, at 12:00pm (midday)
To access the tender and all related documents you will need to log into our tender portal https://www.tenderlink.com/westvicphn/
If you are not already registered it is quick and easy to do so. Registration is Free, giving you access to this tender and any future tenders that may be of interest to you.
Tender Number: WSTVIC-1112941
Industry Briefing for Sexual Violence Integrator Roles (Video)
Further information
Should you have any questions please email tenders@westvicphn.com.au
28 October 2024
Expansion of Specialised Supports for Primary Care in Responding to Family, Domestic and Sexual violence, including Child Sexual Abuse”
WVPHN will soon launch an open tender inviting Request for Proposals (RFPs) from specialised sexual violence services, to deliver Sexual Violence Integrator roles.
Dedicated to primary care, the newly created Sexual Violence Integrator roles will play a key role in enhancing the capacity and capability of primary care providers to offer better care for victim-survivors of sexual violence, including child sexual abuse. These specialised roles will complement the existing Family Violence Connector roles established under WVPHN’s FDSV Pilot Project and are a key component to improving health outcomes of people experiencing family, domestic and sexual violence across our region.
The design of the service model follows the recommendations from the Sexual Violence Co-Design Program conducted between June and August 2024. Additionally, feedback was gathered during a market sounding session with specialised sexual violence services to refine the service delivery model for the WVPHN region.
An online market sounding session was held on 23rd October.
See linked documents for a copy of the market sounding presentation, the commissioning intent document, and the Q&A document.
We thank everyone who has been engaged throughout the sessions.
Sincerely
FDSV Project Team
