RAV is a community-based, not-for-profit organisation, with no religious affiliations.
We provide services for all members of the community.
We believe in core values that inform our practice and behaviour.
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The Strategy Plan 2015-19 is the blueprint for our future.
Relationships Australia is the home of Neighbour Day, Australia's annual celebration of community.
A wide range of services to support children, young people and their families.
We offer counselling for relationships in all their aspects.
Also known as mediation, this service is provided to help couples who are separating to resolve their family law disputes.
FRCs offer a range of services and programs, which are aimed at families at all stages of their life.
We provide sensitive, supportive and professional family violence services across Victoria.
Compass is our specialist support service for people affected by forced adoption.
We address mental health at all stages, with preventative and early intervention mental health services, as well as support for families experiencing mental health difficulties.
RAV celebrates cultural diversity and is committed to providing access to all our programs for all Victorians.
We offer group work and post separation parenting courses (including some for court-mandated clients).
RAV has an established reputation for quality professional training and development in FDR, couple therapy and relationship counselling.
Relationships Australia Victoria has been funded to provide support to people contemplating or going through the National Redress Scheme.
We are committed to providing targeted and effective services addressing the needs of senior Victorians and their families.
Support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and individuals to help strengthen family relationships.
We provide Employee Assistance Programs, workplace dispute resolution and training.
RAV offers a variety of relationship education courses, run in small groups.
This easy-to-complete course aims to help you keep your love relationship happy and stable.
We have an established reputation for quality professional training in a range of areas related to family relationships.
Our Training and Development Department delivers a range of specialist programs.
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RAV has produced a variety of publications to assist with relationship needs.
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Innovative resources to support children to deal with common difficulties in the context of important relationships.
Browse a list of books recommended by our Librarian on relationship issues.
Browse a list of answers to questions we are frequently asked.
Videos providing support on a range of topics and common challenges people face.
Information, tips and resources on a range of common family and relationship issues.
We evaluate our services and undertake research to enable us to highlight issues, service gaps and areas for improvement, and measure the effectiveness of our services.
RAV can provide informed commentary on a range of relationship topics.
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We offer a range of competitive, attractive and flexible employment conditions.
RAV advertises all available positions on this careers page of our website.
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When it comes to relationship issues, our experience is that men are often baffled by some of the commonly-used counselling language and self-help terminology and may not seek help until it is too late.
Our booklet titled Renovate your relationship: a manual for men, produced with MenslIne Australia, helps men to think about the practical side of relationship maintenance and how to do it.
Renovate your relationship takes a positive and constructive view of what is required to identify problems and work to resolve them.
There's a lot of scope for planning, renovation, salvage around wear and tear, repair and rebuilding to stop cracks in a relationship getting too big and bringing the whole edifice tumbling down.
Maintenance and toolboxes don't feature much in the language of self-help books, but in many men's lives they are real currency. And in the relationship setting, they can provide useful images and ideas about what's involved in building and sustaining a solid relationship.
The booklet is a DIY manual for a renovation project - in this case a relationship renovation. There are 13 project tools in the DIY toolbox:
Each tool comes with key points and checklists of things to consider and do, expressed in plain and practical language.
The booklet also includes reactions and thoughts from men about their relationships, and other sources of helpful information.
A call to action in the form of a renovation manual has a lot to offer men who are aware of the strains and gaps in their intimate relationships, but are unable to find good ways to help repair them.
Click here for the relationship renovation manual.
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