16 Days Funding – Local Councils
In 2025, Safe and Equal is putting out a call for individual organisation grant applications for the 16 Days of Activism Grassroots Initiative, open to grassroots community organisations, regional and state-wide community health organisations, and local councils in Victoria.
16 Days Funding – Prevention Partnerships
In 2025, Safe and Equal is putting out a call for individual organisation grant applications for the 16 Days of Activism Grassroots Initiative, open to grassroots community organisations, regional and state-wide community health organisations, and local councils in Victoria.
16 Days Funding – Statewide Women’s Health Services
In 2025, Safe and Equal is putting out a call for individual organisation grant applications for the 16 Days of Activism Grassroots Initiative, open to grassroots community organisations, regional and state-wide community health organisations, and local councils in Victoria.
Training Policies
Our training policies include: Privacy Policy, Fees and Refunds Policy, Complaints and Appeals Policy, AQF Certification Policy.
Membership Application for Organisations
Safe and Equal represents a range of organisation working to end family and gender-based violence. Learn about the member benefits and apply.
Membership Application for Individuals
Safe and Equal represents a range of organisation working to end family and gender-based violence. Learn about the member benefits and apply.
Prevention in Practice Training Packages
We’ve reimagined the delivery of Safe and Equal’s flagship primary prevention training Prevention in Practice to engage practitioners and community allies at their own pace. Our new Primary Prevention Foundations eLearn and Prevention in Practice blended course have been developed with flexible learning options in mind.
Lina Orozco
Prevention Program Officer
As Prevention Program Officer, Lina supports the delivery and implementation of all programs related to prevention sector development.
Family Violence and Disability Practice Leader Initiative
The Family Violence and Disability Practice Leader initiative aims to strengthen access to specialist family violence and sexual assault support for people with disability at risk of family violence and ensure that support is inclusive of and tailored to the needs of people with disabilities.
Supporting victim survivors who do not see police as a safe option
Victim survivors who have been criminalised experience high rates of family violence and trauma, and the severity and impacts of this violence and trauma can be significant.
Helen Batho
Executive Director, Culture, Operations and Engagement
Janet Jukes
Board Secretary
Janet has held key leadership roles in effective organisations for over 30 years. Janet’s experience in the human services sector includes work in child, youth and family services, relationship and counselling services, homelessness, family violence, community legal sectors, AIDS Councils and universities. Janet’s current role is CEO of Refuge Victoria.
Steph Jones
Communications Manager
As Communications Manager, Steph leads the design, development and implementation of Safe and Equal’s communications activity.
Jaspreet Kaur
Prevention Workforce Development Officer
Jaspreet empowers prevention practitioners through impactful training and resource development. She provides project support, contributes to monitoring and evaluation, and fosters online collaboration, strengthening community prevention efforts.
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Liz Ratcliffe
Practice Development Advisor
Liz supports the implementation of practice frameworks and capacity building within the specialist family violence sector.
Kylie Henry
Fast Track Program Advisor
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Supporting a culturally responsive and accountable family violence sector
Djirra, Elizabeth Morgan House and Safe and Equal are partnering to support non-Aboriginal specialist family violence services in taking meaningful action toward building a culturally responsive and accountable family violence sector.
16 Days Funding – Safe and Equal Members
In 2025, Safe and Equal is putting out a call for individual organisation grant applications for the 16 Days of Activism Grassroots Initiative, open to grassroots community organisations, regional and state-wide community health organisations, and local councils in Victoria.
Fast Track Response program
Our Fast Track Response program supports new and emerging specialist family violence leaders in Victoria to transform their practice experience into leadership capability.
Cost: $500 + GST (valued at $3,700)
Fast Track Prevention program
Our Fast Track Prevention program supports new and emerging primary prevention leaders in Victoria to transform their practice experience into leadership capability.
Cost: $500 + GST (valued at $3,700)
Fast Track Leadership Foundations program
Exclusive to new leaders, our Fast Track Leadership Foundations program supports specialist family violence and primary prevention practitioners to excel in their new leadership or management role.
Cost: $350 + GST (valued at $2,500)
Advocacy priorities
This series of Advocacy Priorities has been developed to support the delivery of Safe and Equal’s new Strategic Plan.
Annual reports
Our annual reports detail Safe and Equal’s programs and audited financial statements. You can also catch up on past annual reports from Domestic Violence Victoria and Domestic Violence Resource Centre Victoria.
Nesreen Bottriell
Board Member
Nesreen is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at the Australian Muslim Women’s Centre for Human Rights, an organisation committed to addressing gender inequality and advocating for the rights of Muslim women and girls in Australia.
Dale Wakefield
Board Member
Dale has been the CEO of GenWest since 2022. A social worker by trade, Dale has a long history of working in health, disability and family violence sector. For around last 20 years she has lived and worked in Mparntwe Alice Springs with leadership roles in family violence and politics.
Michelle Roberts
Project and Administration Officer
Sarah Abeysena
Multicultural Inclusion Advisor – Statewide
Rachel Zbukvic
Practice Development Advisor (MARAMIS)
Jacqui Tassone
Data Analyst
Jacqui collects and analyses data from various sources to provide meaningful insights that support the family violence sector to advocate for increased resources, improved data systems and a stronger, more sustainable workforce.
Ruth Fox
Policy and Advocacy Advisor
Naomi Taranto
Prevention Practice Development Advisor
Naomi leads the management of and facilitates a range of primary prevention development activities, including Safe and Equal’s suite of Prevention Communities of Practice.
Julia Pledger
Workplace Partnerships and Lived Experience Officer
Julia assists with project logistics and materials, managing client communications and coordinating external Lived Experience engagements.
Claire Owens
Workplace Partnerships and Engagement Advisor
Claire coordinates the development and delivery of tailored professional development and capability building products and services with a particular focus on private sector settings and workplaces.
Shaez Mortimer
Senior Program Officer
Michelle Prasad
Program Officer
Rebecca Naylor
Program Officer
Stephanie Campese
Evidence and Data Lead
Lucy Peckham
Prevention Practice Advisor, Connecting Communities
Lucy supports the delivery of capacity building for organisations delivering primary prevention with multicultural and faith-based communities, in partnership with the Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health.
Madeline Crehan
Marketing and Communications Officer
Madeline coordinates marketing, communications and engagement activities to support Safe and Equal’s strategic priorities and communications objectives.
PreventX 2026: Stories for Change
Safe and Equal’s PreventX: Stories for Change conference will be held in person and online from Tuesday 24 – Thursday 26 March 2026.
Jaime Chubb
Board Member
Jaime has over 20 years’ experience in the community services and local government sectors across a range of fields including service provision, community engagement, advocacy and community planning. Jaime is currently the CEO of Centre Against Violence, a not-for-profit community organisation delivering specialist sexual assault and family violence services across the Ovens Murray region of Victoria.
16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence 2025
Safe and Equal is continuing to collaborate with Respect Victoria for the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence in 2025.
PreventX 2026: Call for Abstracts
Safe and Equal’s PreventX: Stories for Change conference will be held in person and online from Tuesday 24 – Thursday 26 March 2026.
Portraits of Prevention: Mel
Mel is a program manager leading a gendered violence prevention program at a Women’s Health organisation, which is part of Victoria’s Women’s Health Services Network.
The prevention workforce
Portraits of Prevention profiles some of the practitioners in the family and gender-based violence prevention workforce.
Portraits of Prevention: Samantha
Samantha is a senior practice leader working in one of the small number of specialist organisations that are solely focused on primary prevention. These include Our Watch and Respect Victoria.
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