Fast Facts on Family and Gender-based Violence 2023
A guide for prevention practitioners
Fast Facts provides an overview of statistics and key facts related to experiences and impacts of family and gender-based violence, and changing social attitudes towards these.
Statistics can be a powerful way to convince people about a social problem and provide an impetus for change. Though statistics only tell part of the story.
Fast Facts provides statistics and key facts about how many people experience family and gender-based violence, its impacts, and how attitudes towards violence are changing.
In line with the principles of values-based messaging, this revised resource places statistics and key facts within a narrative that articulates a positive and hopeful vision for the future, and outlines actions that people and communities can take to help realise this vision and collectively contribute to a safer and better future for all.
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‘How to Use Statistics in Primary Prevention’ aims to support a greater understanding of the importance, uses and limitations of statistics within the context of primary prevention and family violence.
‘What is Primary Prevention?’ aims to promote understanding of work across the continuum from prevention to response, as well as provide practical suggestions to improve connection.