No to Violence has 25 years experience working with men who use family violence. We undertook a grass-roots listening tour in September and October which gave us the opportunity to combine our experience with the expertise and knowledge of local service providers.

The published report is based on a 12-stop Listening Tour across the state of Victoria, reaching out to participants across the community sector. The tour was an opportunity to build a collaborative approach as well as identify gaps and common family violence themes across the state. Workshop participants included:

• Local MPs
• Experts and community leaders from the family violence sector
• Police
• Legal services
• Culturally and linguistically diverse communities
• Health workers
• Frontline service providers

Led by No to Violence CEO, Jacqui Watt, the purpose of the tour was to gather local knowledge on how family violence is being dealt with on the ground from the perspective of local practitioners and intersecting service providers.

These valuable insights are presented in the Listening Tour Findings report, which outlines the needs of the sector and how we can best proceed to work in a coordinated and complementary way. We collected insights from metropolitan and regional Victoria, as well as service providers in the culturally and linguistically diverse sector.