Framing the Future the second three-year rolling action plan under Building from strength: 10-Year Industry Plan for Family Violence Prevention and Response is now available online.
Framing the Future will continue to develop the specialisation of the family violence, primary prevention and sexual assault workforces through providing clearer education and training pathways, improving support for early career workers, creating more varied specialisation pathways as workers progress in their careers and improving options for experienced practitioners to move between service types.
The plan reflects strong collaboration with family violence and sexual assault peak bodies and employers as well as opportunities to connect shared workforce development opportunities and challenges across community services – this includes children and families, disability and housing and homelessness.
It addresses critical vacancies and building better career pathways, with a focus on retaining the workforce.
“Ultimately, [workplace] sexual harassment is about power, isn’t it?”
The report will be launched by the Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Dr Anna Cody, with lead researcher, Professor Marie Segrave (University of Melbourne) and human rights advocate Nyadol Nyuon OAM (Harmony Alliance) speaking to the report’s findings and their implications.
This study, unique both nationally and internationally, explores the experiences of workplace sexual harassment for migrant and refugee women. It holds stories from a diverse group of migrant and refugee women: from temporary visa holders to citizens; from women in well-resourced, high-earning industries and positions to women working in low-paid or precarious labour; and women from a diverse range of cultural backgrounds.
Drawn from interviews, focus groups, and a national survey, the findings on workplace sexual harassment speak to the broader context of what it means to be “safe” at work, and the intersections with other workplace harms, such as racial discrimination – including cultural myths and stereotypes – and exploitative work conditions. Findings around reporting and workplace responses to disclosures will inform work to better account for these intersections between different forms of workplace harms.
For gender equality and violence prevention activities to be effective, they need to engage everyone, including men and boys from multicultural and faith-based communities. By addressing barriers to engagement, highlighting the benefits of prevention activities, and consulting with communities to build trust and capacity, prevention practitioners can support men from multicultural and faith-based communities to meaningfully participate in primary prevention.
Developed by the Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health and Safe and Equal, this resource draws on the existing evidence base, as well as practice examples from members of the Connecting Communities network to outline their learnings, tools, insights and strategies for working with multicultural and faith-based men.