Naomi Taranto
Prevention Practice Development Advisor
Prevention, Advocacy and Social Change Unit
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. Her role aims to extend the reach and deepen engagement with prevention practitioners working across communities, sectors and settings. Naomi also supports the implementation of sector facing activities with the Partners in Prevention (PiP) Network and the development of practice resources to enable evidence translation within the sector.
Naomi worked at the Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health (MCWH) on various prevention projects. This included facilitating training through the Working Together grant program, coordinating the delivery of bilingual health education on gender equality topics in community settings and working on the Connecting Communities (CC) project in partnership with Safe and Equal. In CC, she worked to connect practitioners to strengthen their capacity and share their expertise, while supporting them to build resilience and draw on best-practice evidence working with multicultural communities in prevention.
Naomi has a background in public and global health. Working in the international development context aligned with her passion to continue movement building in this field.
The creativity, passion, power and learning that comes from collective action is what drives me in this work. Believing in community power to drive social change and seeing hope for change within our communities makes me believe that a just world is possible. I'm inspired by the collective effort of practitioners working towards long-term social change and committed to supporting feminist and gender justice movements to challenge systems of oppression. Everyone deserves to feel safe, empowered and enabled to pursue their passions.