Victoria's Men's Behaviour Change Program Network

No to Violence is the peak body for organisations delivering Men's Behaviour Change Programs (MBCPs) to men who use family violence in Victoria, Australia. It coordinates a network of more than 150 accredited member organisations and runs the statewide Men's Referral Service, a confidential telephone line for men seeking help to stop using violence.
Programmes follow Victoria's 2017 Minimum Standards, typically running for at least 20 weeks of group work, and take both court-mandated and self- or family-referred participants. Curriculum content and delivery format vary by provider within the shared minimum-standards framework.
A 2016 Monash University longitudinal study (Brown, Flynn, Fernandez Arias et al.) tracking men through and after MBCPs found that the number of men reporting violent behaviour fell by half across all 15 measured items of violence immediately after programme completion, and continued to fall at one-year and two-year follow-up — evidence of sustained rather than short-lived change.
The Victorian Family Violence Reform Implementation Monitor has flagged governance gaps behind this evidence: there is no centralised, independent accreditation body, and providers largely self-assess compliance through unaudited annual reviews. Separate reporting has also described difficulties getting newer, evidence-informed delivery models (such as online programmes) accredited within the existing framework.

Read the full analysis: https://ntv.org.au/