Developing a Vietnamese Men's Behaviour Change Program

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BackgroundThe population of Melbourne’s Northwest region is culturally highly diverse. For example,Australian Bureau of Statistics data 2006 for Brimbank and Maribyrnong show that morethan 50% of the population speaks a language other than English, with Vietnamese the nextmost common language.CALD women are identified in the Victorian Government’s Common Risk AssessmentFramework (Domestic Violence Resource Centre Victoria, 2008) as one of the groups atgreatest risk of family violence. Research has indicated that cultural difference, gender roles,familism, shame and collectivism often combine with factors related to the experience ofmigration to place immigrant and refugee women at heightened risk from domestic violence.(Pease & Rees 2008).There had been some previous work undertaken with Vietnamese men using family violence:“This small Vietnamese pilot project has confirmed that it is possible to work with men ofthese communities”. This pilot highlighted that any response must be grounded in andsensitive to the lived experience of the community and its culture. Training in working withfamily violence is a priority as workers in these communities have few skills or experience inscreening, assessment and running intervention programs.” (Melvin, et al 1999).In 2008, the Northwest Men’s Integrated Partnership identified the need for specific CALDMen’s Behaviour Change Programs through a consultative workshop held in February 2009for all northwest men’s family violence programs. Given the population data, the high numberof Vietnamese women contacting inTouch with regard to family violence and previous workundertaken with the Vietnamese community, the Northwest Men’s Integrated Partnershipproposed that a Vietnamese-speaking men’s family violence group be established witha focus on the need for well-developed cultural sensitivity and understanding of theVietnamese women’s experience.Three of the partnership’s member organisations - RAV, Djerriwarrh Health Services andKildonan Uniting Care each contributed 10% of one year’s family violence funding to theproject which inTouch enthusiastically agreed to manage.In early 2009, InTouch established a reference group with representatives from the threeorganisations, Australian Vietnamese Women’s Association, The Victorian Foundation forSurvivors of Torture and No To Violence Male Family Violence Prevention Association (NTV).This reference group guided the project and the employment, training, and mentoring of thefacilitators - areas that were indicated as requiring of resources in the earlier Melvin report,(Melvin et al 1999).The history of the development of this reference group and the first Vietnamese men’s familyviolence group is published in the compendium report: Vietnamese Men’s Family ViolenceProgram - Evaluation Report (inTouch 2011).A second Vietnamese men’s family violence group was run in 2010 through funding receivedvia the Western Integrated Family Violence Committee, a donation given to InTouch and4
generous in-kind support from the organisations represented on the reference group. Therewas insufficient funding for a further evaluation.This report, Developing a Vietnamese Men’s Behaviour Change Program, is based onthe evaluation of the third Vietnamese men’s program, renamed Vietnamese Men’s andFamily Violence Group at the recommendation of the participants. It follows on from therecommendations of the first evaluation report and the proposed outcomes detailed in theproject funding application.5
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