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It can be really worrying when someone you care about is being hurt or abused by their partner. This booklet will provide you with practical information on how to help, and how to look after yourself.
That’s why we’ve developed Key Terms in Respectful Relationships Education – a handy glossary of terms used in primary prevention and respectful relationships work in Victoria.
We all have a role to play in stopping violence against women. The Know your A-Z resources offer 26 ways everybody can help challenge harmful stereotypes, promote respect and prevent violence. You can download the free Know your A-Z poster and cards then print or share them online.
This keynote address, “Building Trust, Building Safety”, is from the Domestic Violence Resource Centre Victoria (DVRCV) forum ‘What Does It Take? – Addressing high risk family violence through an integrated service response’ held on 11 September 2014.
This keynote address is from the Domestic Violence Resource Centre Victoria (DVRCV) forum ‘What Does It Take? – Addressing high risk family violence through an integrated service response’ held on 11 September 2014.
Filmed in Melbourne on 12 March 2020, this seminar explored how to effectively frame our work to engage men and boys to prevent violence against women. A panel of experts, academics, on-the-ground prevention practitioners discussed how to manage and work through the barriers and challenges that restrict engagement with men and boys.
Held on 11 February 2020, this seminar provides an insight into the challenges that primary practitioners face in evaluating and monitoring their projects.
Recorded on May 27 2020, this webinar was conducted for all people working to prevent violence against women and family violence. LGBTIQ communities experience family and intimate partner violence at rates equal to or higher than non-LGBTIQ people. In conversation with Jackson Fairchild of Rainbow Health Victoria, this webinar explores the complexities that drive this violence.
Supporting a whole of school approach to respectful relationships. Recorded on Tuesday 23 June 2020.
Recorded on 12 May 2020, this webinar was conducted for all people working to prevent violence against women and family violence. Faith communities and settings are an important environment where social beliefs and norms are shaped. These beliefs and norms have the potential to either promote violence or protect against it.
In the context of preventing violence against women, bystander action refers to the action taken by a bystander to challenge behaviour, attitudes, norms, policies and structures that contribute to and perpetuate violence against women.
This video, live streamed on April 19, 2018, discusses Respectful Relationships in early childhood. This video is part of a series on Respectful Relationships in Victoria.
This video is part of a series on Respectful Relationships in Victoria.
This video explores the resistance that may be encountered when implementing respectful relationships education. This video is part of a series on Respectful Relationships in Victoria.
This video explores ways that schools and community organisations can engage and empower children and young people to take an active role in embedding respectful relationships within their school. This video is part of a series on Respectful Relationships in Victoria.
This video explores ways that schools and community organisations can engage with parents and the wider community to take an active role in embedding respectful relationships within their school. This video is part of a series on Respectful Relationships in Victoria.
This video explores ways that schools and community organisations can engage with parents and the wider community to take an active role in embedding respectful relationships within their school. This video is part of a series on Respectful Relationships in Victoria.
We know that primary prevention activities often increase the likelihood of people disclosing. These disclosures may be about their personal experience of violence, perpetration of violence or their family situation. It is important that prevention practitioners have the skills and understanding to respond effectively in these situations. This video is part of a series on Respectful Relationships in Victoria.
We know that primary prevention activities often increase the likelihood of people disclosing. These disclosures may be about their personal experience of violence, perpetration of violence or their family situation. It is important that prevention practitioners have the skills and understanding to respond effectively in these situations. This video is part of a series on Respectful Relationships in Victoria.
These tip sheets are designed to help all professionals who work with young children to promote respect and gender equity in their work.
These tip sheets are designed to help all professionals who work with young children to promote respect and gender equity in their work.
These tip sheets are designed to help all professionals who work with young children to promote respect and gender equity in their work.
These tip sheets are designed to help all professionals who work with young children to promote respect and gender equity in their work.
This fold-up wallet card will provide you with practical information on recognising the signs of abuse and how you can help.
These tip sheets are designed to help all professionals who work with young children to promote respect and gender equity in their work.
These tip sheets have been designed to convey the complexity of what drives violence against women in an easy-to-understand resource.
On 29 May 2018, more than 200 primary prevention of violence against women and respectful relationships education practitioners gathered for DVRCV’s first prevention conference, Achieving Generational Change.
Brought to you by Women with Disabilities Victoria, DV Vic and DVRCV, this free webinar will explore compounding risk factors and barriers to safety people with disability experience.
If you’re concerned about someone, read our information for friends, family, neighbours and colleagues.
If you’re concerned about someone, read our information for friends, family, neighbours and colleagues.
If you’re concerned about someone, read our information for friends, family, neighbours and colleagues.
If you’re concerned about someone, read our information for friends, family, neighbours and colleagues.
If you’re concerned about someone, read our information for friends, family, neighbours and colleagues.
If you’re concerned about someone, read our information for friends, family, neighbours and colleagues.
If you’re concerned about someone, read our information for friends, family, neighbours and colleagues.
If you’re concerned about someone, read our information for friends, family, neighbours and colleagues.
If you’re concerned about someone, read our information for friends, family, neighbours and colleagues.
If you’re concerned about someone, read our information for friends, family, neighbours and colleagues.
If you’re concerned about someone, read our information for friends, family, neighbours and colleagues.
If you’re concerned about someone, read our information for friends, family, neighbours and colleagues.
The Family Violence Experts by Experience Framework aims to enhance the ability of specialist family violence services to provide opportunities for survivor advocates to influence policy development, service planning and practice.
If you are supporting someone who is older or lives with an older person, it is vital you can recognise elder abuse and respond appropriately.
Co-produced with Berry Street’s Y-Change Lived Experience Consultants, this guide is designed to help practitioners better support children and young people with experiences of family violence.
This self-directed learning guide has been prepared by Djirra, in partnership with Safe and Equal, for family violence practitioners who work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women.
The poster has been developed with Flat Out to empower criminalised women and to be displayed at a service or practitioner they are working with.
This tip sheet provides information to help family violence practitioners understand what forced marriage is, the signs to look out for, and ways to support someone who has experienced forced marriage.
We’ve partnered with Switchboard to develop a tip sheet to help practitioners responding to family violence provide LGBTIQA+ inclusive support, assessment, safety planning and referral.
Authentic engagement with survivor advocates starts with preparation and self-reflection. Use this tool to identify the skills and capabilities you will apply to ensure safe and respectful engagement with survivor advocates.
This project brief template should be completed by a service to provide transparent information about a project or engagement opportunity to survivor advocates.
This form is designed to enable survivor advocates to set clear expectations to support safe and accessible engagements.
This survey template is designed to enable services to collect information from survivor advocates on their experience working with a service.
We provide information, training, capability building and advocacy for organisations and professionals working to end family violence.
You can find general information about family violence on the Are you safe at home? website.
This website has a ‘quick exit’ button at the top of every page. If you’re worried that someone will see that you’re on this website, click the button and it will open the Google search page. This doesn’t remove the site from your browser history. Someone can still check to see the sites you’ve visited.
Here’s how you can delete your history for each browser:
We provide information, training, capability building and advocacy for organisations and professionals working in family violence.
You can also find general information about family violence on the Are you safe at home? website.
This website has a ‘quick exit’ button at the top of every page. If you’re worried that someone will see that you’re on this website, click the button and it will open the Google search page. This doesn’t remove the site from your browser history. Someone can still check to see the sites you’ve visited.
Here’s how you can delete your history for each browser:
Google Chrome
Mozilla Firefox
Internet Explorer
Safari
Deleting all of your browser history can also alert your abuser.
