15 March 2010
Women’s Health in the North and the Northern Integrated Family Violence Network have produced a short film targeting young women called ‘Love Control’. It is particularly useful for demonstrating the impact of emotional abuse and other nonphysical forms of controlling behaviour. There are two versions on Youtube, one with Victorian contact numbers and one with [...]
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15 March 2010
A Right to Respect: Victoria’s Plan to Prevent Violence Against Women outlines a whole of government strategy for reducing violence against women between 2010 and 2020. Respectful Relationships Education in Schools is a report on best practice in secondary school violence prevention in Victoria produced by VicHealth in partnership with the Department of Education and [...]
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15 March 2010
Preventing violence before it occurs: a framework and background paper to guide the primary prevention of violence against women in Victoria This document presents a comprehensive ecological model to guide the primary prevention of violence against women and forms the background to ‘A Right to Respect’ mentioned below. Two steps forward, one step back: Community [...]
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15 March 2010
DVRCV’s website has a comprehensive list of local resources and links relating to domestic and family violence. ’101 ways great and small to prevent family violence: A Victorian resource kit’ contains an entire section on projects targeting children and young people. Download the family violence resource kit from the DVRCV website DVRCV runs a variety [...]
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23 February 2010
A couple of people have emailed me job ads in the last week so in the interest of getting the info out quickly I’m posting them here: Office of Women’s Policy Project Officer Family Planning Victoria Project Officer
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23 February 2010
You are warmly invited to provide input into the primary prevention of gender-based violence in Victorian secondary schools. Consultation sessions are being held February and March in several regions of Victoria to inform the Demonstration Project.
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20 February 2010
Our February PiP meeting was a facilitated discussion of best practice and the recently released Respectful Relationships Education in Secondary Schools report. In particular we will be looked at the 5 criteria for good practice outlined in chapter 3. The opinion post Best practice is a state of mind provided some food for thought about [...]
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11 February 2010
Women’s Health Goulburn North East presents training for teachers and community educators on the REAL Life program, a a community based program for years 8 and 9 and young people out of school.
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