The Department of Families, Fairness and Housing (DFFH) is offering a series of free 90-minute Leading for wellbeing seminars for Family Violence, Prevention and Sexual Assault managers, team leaders, coordinators, Human Resource staff, emerging sector leaders and interested practitioners and workers.

Facilitated by the world-renowned Health, Safety and Wellbeing expert, Dr. Michelle McQuaid, the series is designed to respond to your workplace wellbeing queries and share your success stories and challenges.

Dr. Michelle McQuaid was the top-rated speaker for the 2020 Leadership Intensives and Alumni Fireside Chats. The new seminar series will build on the previous conversations in relation to workplace health, safety and wellbeing and contribute to DFFH’s commitment to building leadership capability in the family violence, prevention and sexual assault workforces.

Each seminar extends the learning for the previous one, however you are welcome to attend any of the seminars even if you haven’t attended the ones before.

Seminar Three

Extending workplace health, safety and wellbeing learning - cultural safety and holistic healing.

Full seminar description to be added soon.

Zoom link:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89508135227 | Meeting ID: 895 0813 5227

Subsequent seminars

• Seminar Four - 30 May 2023 - Responding to your workplace health, safety and wellbeing needs - tying it all together.

Additional Health, Safety and Wellbeing supports

Guide and Tool - The online Family Violence, Prevention and Sexual Assault Health, Safety and Wellbeing Guide and Family Violence and Sexual Assault Self-assessment Tool are now available.

Pilots - The Guide, Tool and Survey are being piloted across the state in a mix of family violence, prevention and sexual assault programs until June 2023. Additional resources will be co-developed with the 8 pilot sites, showcased in a final workshop mid-2023 and added to the Guide.

Wellbeing survey - The Wellbeing Survey has been adapted for the family violence, prevention and sexual assault workforces with licences to create team and program/organisational survey reports. This provides a systems approach to measuring and caring for workplace health, safety and wellbeing.

DFFH is offering up to 100 licences for teams, programs and organisations to access aggregated wellbeing survey reports, free of charge. Each licence lasts 12 months.

To find out more, please watch the following video and find out how to apply for a licence.

Please advise the team at cwe@dffh.vic.gov.au if you have any accessibility requirements.