SASVic training

What we offer

SASVic offers training for SASVic member services and other professionals.

SASVic’s 2025 offering:

Before booking training, make sure that you’ve read our cancellation policy.

SASVic offers six member forums for staff working in specialist sexual assault and harmful sexual behaviour services. For 2025, SASVic has moved to a collective training format. Training will be delivered remotely, with staff attending on-site as a group. Our training team will be in touch with each service individually to organise training.

If you have any questions about this, please email training@sasvic.org.au

SASVic Member Forums

Members only

Supporting victim survivors through the legal system

Members only

Join experts across Victoria Police, the Office of Public Prosecutions and the legal profession to learn about the legal process and supports for victim survivors of sexual assault. This event will run across four online sessions. You only need to register once. Once registered, you will be provided with dates, links and updates for each module.

This online series is only available to staff from the Victorian specialist sexual assault sector.

Learning objectives

Module 1: Overview of the justice system, police process and progression to the criminal course
Module 2: Witness supports and the court process
Module 3: Compensation options
Module 4: Restorative Justice

Join Dr. Fiona Vera Gray from London Metropolitan University, alongside a range of local guest speakers, for a 6-day short course covering topics such as feminist theory and historical perspectives, sexual violence, child sexual abuse and intersectional framings. Dr Fiona Vera Gray is the Deputy Director of The Child and Women Abuse Studies Unit (CWASU), recognised as a centre of excellence and the only one in Europe focusing on all forms of violence against women and children. This course draws on content from CWASU’s Women and Child Abuse Master’s program, tailored for a local context.

Foundations in Sexual Violence 6-day Short Course

When: We’ll run this course again in 2025. Watch this space.

Bespoke training for other professionals

SASVic offers external training for other professionals by request. SASVic has provided training to a range of workforces to date, including family violence practitioners, health professionals and legal professionals. To create a world free of sexual violence, we need a whole of community approach to preventing and responding to sexual violence.

If your workplace is interested in attending training with SASVic, please email training@sasvic.org.au to find out what we can offer and to get a quote.

SASVic’s cancellation policy

Cancellations:

  • Cancellation on or before two weeks prior to the event commencement date - full refund.

  • Cancellation within two weeks prior to the event commencement date - no refunds available, unless in extenuating circumstances. We may offer a credit where possible.

  • ‘Extenuating circumstances’ include injury and/or illness preventing attendance, including caring responsibilities for a person who is injured/unwell. We will also consider other extenuating factors that have prevented attendance.

  • All requests for refunds must be made in writing to the SASVic Training Team (training@sasvic.org.au)

  • In some cases, a minimum number of participants is required for a training to be viable. In the event a session needs to be cancelled, your registration fee will be refunded in full.

Transfers

  • Registrations may be transferred to a colleague at any time prior to the event by contacting SASVic Training Team (training@sasvic.org.au).