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.
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.
A Deakin University honours research project is seeking social worker participants for a study on knowledge and practice responses when working with women over 50 experiencing intimate family violence.
The study aims to explore social workers’ knowledge of intimate partner violence and women over 50, the services available to women over 50, and what this looks like in practice.
Interested participants are invited to participate in a one-on-one interview to gather data on their knowledge of and practice responses for working with women over 50 who have recovered and rebuilt their lives after IPV.