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2011
16 Actions, 16 Days Campaign: November - December 2011
This campaign aimed to help eliminate violence against women by encouraging thought and action. From Friday November 25 to Saturday December 10, 2011, we asked men throughout the country to do just one thing every day to prepare, skill and support themselves and other men in stopping violence against women before it occurs. Find out more and check the Campaign Calendar.

NTV 2011 Annual Report (December 2011).

Common Risk Assessment Framework (CRAF) training program
The Victorian Government is providing a fully funded statewide training program in the Family Violence Risk Assessment and Management Framework. (October 2011) Read more.

Failure to Protect laws
The National Plan to Reduce Violence Against Women and their Children: a joint submission by community agencies and peak bodies working in the family violence, child and family welfare and community legal sectors, including NTV. (September 2011) Read more.

Working Together Against Violence
Women's Health Victoria final project report. (August 2011) Read more.

'Types' of men?
As a practitioner who has seen hundreds of men do at least some part of a men’s behaviour change program, I have sometimes wondered about whether it is useful to think about different ‘types’ of men who present at programs. (June 2011) Read more.

Research Corner March 2011
Four books that deal directly with engaging male users of family violence – two from Australia and two from the U.S. A fifth is based on the premise that there is much more written and talked about in terms of understanding oppression and helping the oppressed, compared to understanding and identifying privilege. (March 2011) Read more.

Research Corner February 2011
- Interventions designed to address an offender’s substance abuse problems have a positive impact in reducing their use of intimate partner violence,
- The application of the stages-of-change model and offenders’ readiness to engage in treatment,
- Meta-analysis of 30 studies providing data on variables associated with dropping out of a program prior to its completion. (February 2011) Read more.

Victorian MBCP survey
In September 2010, NTV launched a survey of Victorian men’s behaviour change program providers to obtain quantitative data and professional opinion. (January 2011) Read more.

Research Corner January 2011:
- The most recent review of outcome research for batterer intervention programs
- Research concerning contemporary innovations that program providers are experimenting with to attempt to enhance effectiveness. (January 2011) Read more.

2010
Measuring success
What Counts as Success in Men’s Behaviour Change Work? (November 2010) Read more.

Asking for Additional Resources for Male Family Violence Work
While initiatives have assisted the integration of engaging men within family violence service systems, further work remains to meet the objectives of the reform process in relation to men. (November 2010)  Read more.

Being Backed-up by The System: Graham Barnes and the Duluth Model
A key feature of ‘gold standard’ Coordinated Community Response (CCR) systems in the U.S. is the tremendous amount of thinking and care taken to build respectful relationships between various stakeholders. (November 2010)  Read more.

Combining Group and Individual Sessions as a Dual Component of Intervention
Revisiting the rationale for combining group and individual sessions as part of the Northern Violence Intervention Program's (NVIP) 26 week Men’s Stopping Violence Group (MSVG) program (November 2010). Read more.

NTV 2010 Annual Report.

NTV Survey of Male Family Violence Workers' Pay and Conditions
In the late winter and early spring, NTV conducted an anonymous, electronic survey of male family violence workers on issues related to pay and conditions for this work. (October 2010) Read more.

What is the work with men all about?
Objectives of engaging men: it is not often that a whole book is published on engaging men who perpetrate family violence, let alone an Australian one. (September 2010) Read more.

Funding Priorities for the Male Family Violence Sector.
The past five to six years have seen a number of significant funding developments for the male family violence sector. (September 2010) Read more.

Policy and Practice Development for the Male Family Violence Sector
The more proactive aspects of NTV’s policy development work; intended to provide a transparent indication of the broad direction of our proactive policy work in the years to come, and to seek your feedback concerning whether this might be of benefit to the field. (August 2010) Read more.

NTV Policy Work Update.
In today’s not-for-profit sector world of rapidly changing external conditions, reforms, collaboration and integration, inquiries and submissions, and the plethora of reference groups and committees, this work can so easily seem reactive, time-pressured, indirect and ‘bitsy’. (July 2010) Read more.

New National Male Health Policy
NTV has written to Warren Snowdon, federal minister for indigenous health, rural and regional health, and regional service delivery regarding the first National Male Health Policy: Building on the Strengths of Australian Males. (May 2010) Read more.