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10. Family Violence Workshop

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Workshop Moderator

Richard Dent
Chair, Rotary Foundation Committee
Rotary Melbourne

Speakers

Associate Professor Troy McEwan
Swinburne Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science

Lauren Callaway
Assistant Commissioner Family Violence Command, Victoria Police

Dorothy Gilmour
Rotary Melbourne & Rotary Safe Families

This session will provide participants with an overview of the Victoria Police and community approach to holding family violence perpetrators to account, keeping victims safe and addressing children’s needs. The panelists will outline their roles and approach to influencing a systems response to family violence, implementing an evidence-based risk assessment for prioritising the police response and the community prevention focus of Rotary SAFE families. This session will offer a unique insight into an evidence-based response by frontline and specialist police resources and opportunities for Rotarians to mobilise community in the prevention of family violence as a Rotary SAFE Ambassador.

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Associate Professor Troy McEwan

Troy is an Associate Professor of clinical and forensic psychology at Swinburne University of Technology and a senior psychologist at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health (Forensicare), where she provides consultation to courts, correctional and mental health agencies. Her research and practice is focused on improving understanding, assessment and treatment of people who engage in family violence, stalking, sexual offending and deliberate firesetting.

Troy has authored more than 60 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and books on these topics, led projects to develop and evaluate risk assessment instruments, and conducted research into the psychological processes that contribute to abuse within relationships.

Troy’s family violence research has a strong translational focus, working directly with government and industry to evaluate and help develop their responses to family violence. Since 2015 she have consulted to Victoria Police on the development, implementation and evaluation of their family violence risk assessment process, a project that in 2017 received an Australian Crime and Violence Prevention Gold Award. She is currently leading an ongoing evaluation of the Specialist Family Violence Courts within the Magistrates’ Court of Victoria, and she consults to the Department of Justice and Community Safety on family violence perpetrator interventions.

Troy is the current president of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, and sits on the editorial boards of Criminal Justice and Behavior and the Journal of Threat Assessment and Management.

Assistant Commissioner Lauren Callaway

Lauren joined Victoria Police in 1994 after completing a cadetship as a newspaper journalist in the Latrobe Valley and giving up on artistic ambitions to be a graphic designer or fine arts student. After working operational duties in Melbourne, Ballarat and Geelong, she took promotion to sergeant in the Intelligence and Covert Support Department (ICSC) where she spent six years involved in forensic intelligence, special projects and establishing the Sex Offenders Registry.

Lauren spent a year in the Crime Department as an Acting Inspector establishing the first iteration of the Violence Against Women and Children Strategy Group, then four years at Professional Standards, followed by a Local Area Command role at Glen Eira Bayside. She was promoted to Superintendent in 2016, returning to Intelligence and Covert Support Command to manage the Offender Management Division and focused efforts on an expanded post sentencing scheme to include both violent and the most serious of sex offenders.

Lauren was promoted to Commander in 2018 to People Development Command where she worked on developing Victoria Police’s organisational education strategy, leading the specialist training areas and producing quality outcomes in education and training. In September 2020, she took up a new role as Assistant Commissioner of Family Violence Command.

She is currently the chair of Victoria Police Legacy, having been a Board member since 2010. Her goal within the Police Legacy environment is to simply create a culture of compassion and gender equality.

Lauren is also an author, writing a book on Aboriginal jockey Darby McCarthy titled Against All Odds. Over the years, she has worked on professional development programs in the police force that has grown into a career planning program, inclusive of all but very much tailored to help women be more successful in policing.

Dorothy Gilmour

Dorothy has vast experience and professional, academic history in Social Sciences including human behaviours and challenges of specialised groups.

Her main practice was in the area of trauma, loss, grief, mediation and suicide prevention for individuals, parents and families, and included debriefing after a critical incident in workplaces and post community disasters. Her services included years of University lecturing in Masters’ programs of Psychology, Social Science and Family Therapy in Trauma, Loss and Grief Counselling and Palliative Care.

Dorothy remains an advocate for social justice and fairness for those less fortunate. She is determined for everyday people to be part of the solution in the prevention of family violence and elder abuse across the world.

Dorothy believes that we must not only rely on Police and social services to manage this epidemic of violence: ‘We must understand the triggers of abuse, how to refer a victim. We need to make changes now. We must ensure our children and grandchildren do not perpetrate this lack of respect for humanity.’

As a passionate Rotarian, editor of Rotary Bulletin and ‘champion’ of Rotary SAFE Families, you will hear her distinctive: “Onwards and Upwards!”