About OMFVP
Our Vision
Our Purpose
To strengthen outcomes for our community through local system stewardship: leading a coordinated, place-based approach that aligns partners with statewide reform, embeds best practice, and drives collaborative action across the family violence continuum from prevention
through to recovery, while advocating to ensure regional needs, priorities, and experiences are understood and addressed.
The Strategic Plan
Our Foundations
Communication. We commit to providing clear, consistent and cadenced communication to all organisations in the partnership.
Client Voice. We commit to embedding lived experience and diversity in our partnership design and governance, ensuring client relationships are authentic and empowering.
Connection. We commit to overcoming fragmentation within the partnership and will align our efforts with sustainable social impact through true collaboration.
Champion. We commit to a shared desire and drive to use our collective influence to reduce stigma and advocate for respectful, user-led client partnerships.
Our History
Established in 2006, the Ovens Murray Family Violence Partnership (OMFVP) is one of 13 Family Violence Regional Integration Committees (FVRICs) in Victoria. Formed initially to improve the coordination of family violence services, FVRICs are now key in the rollout of the Victorian Government’s Family Violence reforms.
The OMFVP is a regional governance structure that provides strategic leadership to drive effective responses to family violence across the local service system and support implementation of Victoria’s family violence reforms in the Ovens Murray region.
The OMFVP membership is made up of both service providers and other stakeholders that contribute to family violence service responses across the Ovens Murray region. Membership to the partnership is open to organisations working in the Local Government Areas of Alpine, Benalla, Indigo, Mansfield, Towong, Wangaratta and Wodonga.
The OMFVP is funded by the Department of Families, Fairness and Housing and supported by a coordination position, the Principal Strategic Advisor. The Partnership is currently auspiced by the Centre Against Violence.
Since its inception, OMFVP has evolved into a strong, connected network, enabling cross-sector partners across the region to work together towards shared outcomes.
What We Do
The OMFVP brings organisations together to strengthen responses to family violence across the region. We work alongside services, government and community partners to support a coordinated, integrated system that improves safety for victim survivors and promotes accountability for people who use violence.
Our work focuses on understanding the unique needs and opportunities within the Ovens Murray region, building strong relationships across sectors, and supporting collaboration between organisations. By bringing partners together, we help strengthen system coordination, identify opportunities for improvement, and support the consistent implementation of family violence reform.
The OMFVP plays an important role in connecting local practice with statewide reform. We support collaboration between organisations across the region, helping to strengthen partnerships, shared understanding and coordinated responses to family violence. We also provide local insights, experience and emerging issues to inform policy, planning and decision-making at a state level.
Through this work, the OMFVP helps build a stronger, more connected family violence system that responds effectively to local needs while contributing to Victoria’s broader reform agenda.
Governance Framework
Partnership Approach
Regional integration governance structures have been underpinning the delivery of family violence reform for well over a decade. FVRICs play a key strategic leadership role in developing a more effective family violence service system. We do this by strengthening system integration and supporting the implementation of the Victorian Government’s family violence reforms.
As one of thirteen area-based cross sector committees representing government and non-government agencies, family violence services, children and family services, Victoria Police, justice and legal services, housing, community, and health services, the OMFVP provides leadership, advocacy, and specialist expertise to strengthen, integrate and improve the family violence system and help end family violence across the Ovens Murray region.
We do this by supporting workforces and building family violence literacy across different service sectors, and influencing and advocating for positive change.
Our work is guided by the Ovens Murray Family Violence Partnership Strategic Plan 2026-2029. Partnership members work together under a common Statement of Purpose (the Partnership Agreement) and FVRIC Guidelines.
OMFVP Partner Organisations
Our Approach to Collaboration
Collaboration is central to all our work in Ovens Murray. We cannot do this work alone, and we activly partner with local alliances, networks and services to ensure our efforts are strategic, coordinated and make the best use of regional knowledge.
Ovens Murray Collaborators
Ovens Murray Mental Health Alcohol and Drug Alliance
OMMHADA brings together mental health, alcohol and other drug, and wellbeing services across North East Victoria and South East NSW. The Alliance fosters collaboration across service levels to deliver joined-up care, advocate for regional needs, and ensure local services are responsive, coordinated, and fit for purpose.
W: www.awh.org.au
E: TBC
Ovens Murray/Goulburn Homelessness Network
The Ovens Murray/Goulburn Homelessness Network is a collaborative group of Specialist Homelessness and Family Violence Services working together to strengthen local responses to homelessness. Through strategic partnerships and frontline insights, the Network builds service system capacity, advocates for change, and supports the implementation of the Opening Doors framework across the region.
W: www.omglasn.com.au
E: networkcoordinator@beyondhousing.org.au
Ovens Murray Child & Family Services Alliance
The Ovens Murray Child and Family Services (OMCFS) Alliance brings together 11 DFFH-funded agencies, working in partnership with the Department of Families, Fairness and Housing and Family Safety Victoria. United in purpose, Alliance members support children, young people, and families across Ovens Murray providing culturally responsive, timely, and connected services that strengthen and safeguard families.
W: omcfsalliance.com.au
E: OMAlliance@umfc.com.au