Sharing WISDOM
Project Details
Multicultural community services regularly encounter and support clients who are victim-survivors of family violence, are increasingly funded to deliver family violence-related support. It is unclear what constitutes successful integration of multicultural community services into a coordinated response.
The Sharing WISDOM project will develop collective understanding of what success means for integration of multicultural community services in a coordinated family violence response, and establish key principles for a successful, coordinated response to family violence that is inclusive of multicultural community services.
This project will engage with the leadership of multicultural community services; multicultural community services’ staff responsible for implementing violence response initiatives; bilingual health educators and family violence system connectors; specialist services; and victim-survivors, to establish a shared view of success for multicultural community services’ integration into a coordinated response.
Researchers
Associate Professor Karen Block
Collaborators
Dr Minerva Kyei-Onanjiri, Department of General Practice at The University of Melbourne.
Dr Adele Murdolo Multicultural Centre for Women's Health
Ms Emma Antonetti and Ms Katriece Bolden, Whittlesea Community Connections
Funding
This project is funded by Department of Families, Fairness and Housing