Safe and Equal have recently announced their latest report, Foundations for Action: Understanding the Primary Prevention Workforce in Victoria.
This report examines the landscape of the primary prevention workforce in Victoria, offering comprehensive insights into the diverse range of organisations, practitioners and activities involved.
Created in collaboration with key stakeholders, the report offers valuable insights into workforce needs and presents strategic considerations to strengthen and grow this workforce into the future.
A new Victorian Government resource is helping clubs become champions when it comes to creating respectful and safe sporting environments where gender equality is actively promoted, and gender stereotypes are challenged. Sport plays a valuable role in preventing gender-based violence. It is an important setting for championing equality and challenging gender inequality. While this Guide is primarily focused on community sport, many of the principles, resources and key learnings can apply to active recreation settings.
The Guide is a tool for organisations to work more effectively with a range of community sporting organisations including governing bodies, associations, clubs and volunteers to drive cultural change in community sport.
Our Watch’s previous report, Tracking Progress in Prevention: A national monitoring report on progress towards the primary prevention of violence against women and their children 2020, tracked national progress towards reducing violence against women over 2009 to 2019.
A new report card from Our Watch provides an update with data from 2020 to 2023 and shows that there has been slow but significant improvements across many of the key measures of progress in the prevention of violence against women.
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.