Promising Practice Programs

SEA Change Program

Agency Sexual Assault Unit / Mallee Domestic Violence Services
Website www.msau-mdvs.org.au
Contact Joanne Sheehan, Manager
PHONE: (03) 5025 5400 MSAU
(03) 5021 2130 MDVS
FAX:(03) 5025 5432 MSAU
(03) 5022 2216 MDVS
EMAIL: info@msau-mdvs.org.au
Start date 1998
End date on going
Program type Community awareness/education
Service provider training
Training for community groups
Advocacy program
Therapeutic responses to victims
Geographical area Community
Regional centre
Rural
Target group Women
Adult survivors
Indigenous
Culturally diverse
People with disabilities
Rural
Service providers
Adolescent / Young Women
Description

SEA Change is a structured group for women who meet once a week for apporximately two and a half hours over an 8 week period.
The SEA Change Program is oriented to encouraging participants to socialise in order to break the isolation associated with violence/abuse and mental health and improving women's self-esteem and assertiveness.
SEA Change Program covers:-

  • Self-Esteem
  • Assertiveness
  • Goal Setting
  • Turning Problems into Challenges
  • Communication
  • How to say "NO"
Promising practice examples

The SEA Change Program is now a collaborative jointly facilitated project between Mallee Domestic Violence Services, Mallee Sexual Assault Unit and Northern Mallee Mental Health Services.

SEA Change demonstrates Good Practice in the following ways:

  • Positions diversity as key to the development, understanding and delivery of good practice models.
  • Demonstrates a sensitivity towards the barriers faced by victim/survivors in disclosing and reporting sexual assault.
  • Has a clearly defined conceptual framework.
  • Includes processes of accountability and evaluation.
  • Demonstrates a capacity for replication (i.e. other services/organisations could adapt/re-model the program for their use).
Based on existing program N/A
Philosophical framework The program is based upon the social learning theoretical framework.
Research informing program

"Getting Better" Awards - Building Partnerships between Mental Health, Family Violence and Sexual Assault Services (April 2004), Department of Human Services.

"Branching out in the Northern Mallee" Two day conference.
Publications N/A
Evaluation
  • Internal
  • Written following attendance
  • Pretest
  • Posttest
    The SEA Change Course provides participants with confidence, assertiveness and awareness of needs as well as their ability to satisfy these needs is increased.
Funding Supported Accommodation Assistance Program (SAAP)

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