Graduate Certificate of Social
Science:
Male Family Violence.
Information and Application pack
Melbourne 2015
Thank you for inquiring about the Graduate Certificate of Social Science: Male Family
Violence for 2015.
This course is convened by No To Violence, NTV in conjunction with Swinburne University of
Technology.
It is a Higher Education course and as such you are required to hold a Bachelor Degree or
have at least five years’ experience in the community sector.
Course dates and locations
Session 1 - 3
August 5, 6, 7
Multicultural Hub, 506 Elizabeth
Street (opposite the Queen
Victoria Market).
Session 4 - 6
August 19, 20, 21
Multicultural Hub, 506 Elizabeth
Street (opposite the Queen
Victoria Market).
Session 7 - 9
September 2, 3, 4
Multicultural Hub, 506 Elizabeth
Street (opposite the Queen
Victoria Market).
Session 10 - 12
September 16, 17, 18
Multicultural Hub, 506 Elizabeth
Street (opposite the Queen
Victoria Market).
Session 13 - 15
September 30,
October 1, 2
Multicultural Hub, 506 Elizabeth
Street (opposite the Queen
Victoria Market).
The course requires you to attend 100 per cent of classes, see the schedule above.
All sessions will be from 9.30 – 4.30 pm.
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Graduate Certificate in Social Science: Male Family Violence 2015 Application.
There are two practicums attached to the course:
Practicum 1:
Observe four sessions at a DHHS funded, NTV approved MBCP (preferably different
agencies)
Practicum 2:
There are two options for completion of the final unit. Students must choose one option only:
Facilitate eight sessions of a DHHS funded, NTV approved MBCP
Observe a comprehensive assessment including initial partner contact.
Observe a partner contact session.
OR
Facilitate eight sessions of a DHHS funded, NTV approved MBCP
plus any two of the following:
• attend a walk in her shoes session at the Magistrates Court,
•
facilitate and participate in two Family Violence team meetings in your
agency which will include peer supervision,
•
organise and attend a Magistrates Court that has a defendant worker and
spend a half day with that worker in their role,
•
participate in a peer supervision session with facilitators/partner contact
workers in your region,
•
observe a comprehensive assessment interview that also includes the
initial partner contact, or
•
observe a partner contact session.
Practicum 1 and 2 cannot be done at the same agency.
Students will be enrolled in the course from second semester 2015 until the end of first
semester 2016. The first three units and their requirements will be undertake in semester 2
2015 (August – October) on the successful completion of these three units the students can
commence the final unit – practicum 2 in first semester 2016 (March – May).
All assessment requirements including the Practicums and final assessment interview must
be completed by the due dates. If all assessment requirements are not completed by these
dates students will have to re-enrol at further cost.
Included in this pack is all the information you will need to apply for the course. Please make
sure you have completed the following application form in full, sign it and include all other
required documents.
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Graduate Certificate in Social Science: Male Family Violence 2015 Application.
Once you have gathered all the required documents, please mail them to:
Denise Roberts
NTV Training Coordinator
P O Box 3022
Burnley North 3121
or email them to
[email protected]
For any further information please contact Denise on [email protected] or 9487 4500.
Application must be received by June 30, 2015.
You will be advised of your acceptance into the course by July 8, 2015*.
Swinburne will then send you an enrolment form which you will also need to complete and
submit.
* If, due to demand for the course, a waiting list is created, a second round of offers will be
made for places that have not been taken up by first round offers.
Department of Health and Human Services Funding
Any staff member, employed by community agencies funded by the Department of Health
and Human Services to provide men’s family violence services may be eligible for a funded
place in the course.
Course Fee
The cost of the course has been set by Swinburne at $4,800 and is due on enrolment. Fee
help will be available for those students who require assistance and have not been offered a
funded place in the course.
Application and required documents:
1. Complete and sign the following application form.
2. A current CV.
3. A letter from your agency on their letterhead stating that you meet the requirements
to take up a funded position in the course if offered.
The application form is on the next page.
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Graduate Certificate in Social Science: Male Family Violence 2015 Application.
Graduate Certificate of Social Science: Male Family Violence
Application Form
Title
Gender
Date of Birth
Family Name
Given Name
Telephone
H:
W:
M:
Email
Address
Post code
Postal Address
Post code
Emergency contact
name
Their phone number
Is English your first language?
□ Yes
□ No
If no, what language is spoken at home ________________________
Are you currently working in a Men’s Behaviour Change Program?
□ Yes
□ No
Agency _____________________________________________________
How long have you worked there? _______________________________
What is your role? ____________________________________________
Have you organised to do Practicum 2 at your agency?
□ Yes
□ No
Have you organised an agency where you will do Practicum 2?
□ Yes
□ No
Agency_____________________________________________________
Signature_________________________
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Graduate Certificate in Social Science: Male Family Violence 2015 Application.