PREVENTION
TRAINING &
EVENTS
Safe and Equal’s primary prevention training builds the capability of practitioners to engage in best practice primary prevention of family and gender-based violence, and respectful relationships education work.
Our training provides practitioners with a common language and shared understanding of key concepts used in the prevention of family and gender-based violence. By participating in our engaging training offerings, you can build a better understanding of primary prevention activity in a range of settings across the community.
Safe and Equal aims to embed an intersectional understanding of the drivers of violence against women, and related drivers of family and gender-based violence. From unpacking resistance to primary prevention program design to self-care, our training supports practitioners at all stages of their careers to share their experiences and refine their skills.
Take a look at our upcoming events, too.
Tailored training
We deliver tailored training packages to suit your organisations and team’s needs for preventing family and gender-based violence. Our experienced trainers have facilitated primary prevention training for arrange of organisations, from large retailers to local councils, with outstanding feedback.
To discuss tailored training packages for your team, please contact us at training@safeandequal.org.au.
FLAGSHIP PREVENTION TRAINING
We’ve reimagined the delivery of Safe and Equal’s flagship primary prevention training Prevention in Practice. To provide more flexible and effective training, the program has been divided into two new, distinct packages: Prevention Foundations and Prevention Programs.
Our Courses
Small Steps: Bystander Action for Equality
This four-hour course is for anyone ready to become an active bystander. Get the confidence and practical tools to effectively challenging sexist attitudes in your professional and personal life.
Unpacking Resistance
This one-day training helps you manage interpersonal pushback in primary prevention work. The course provides practical skills to turn resistance into a catalyst for change, using realworld examples and role-play to build confidence in navigating difficult conversations.
Responding to Disclosures in Prevention
This three-hour training will equip you to confidently support colleagues who disclose violence. You’ll gain a deeper understanding of the dynamics and indicators of violence, and develop effective response strategies. The training will explore different ways to build safety and support within the design and delivery of prevention activities.
Organisational Resistance: Advancing Practice
This interactive one-day training is designed to advance your understanding and application of strategies and tools to build organisational support and commitment for social change addressing the drivers of family and gender-based violence, and proactively plan for and manage resistance to this change.
Prevention Foundations
This four-hour training provides the foundational knowledge and skills of the drivers, evidence-base and frameworks for primary prevention practice.
Prevention Programs
This five-hour training is for professionals with foundational knowledge who are ready to lead the design and implementation of primary prevention programs within organisations and communities, with the goal of fostering a more equitable and safer world.
Prevention Foundations eLearn
This self-paced eLearn builds your foundational knowledge of primary prevention and the drivers of gender-based violence. If you are curious about primary prevention and social change, this is a great place to start your learning journey.
Upcoming Events
PreventX
PreventX – our biennial national prevention conference – is returning on Tuesday 24 to Thursday 26 March 2026 as an in-person event with an online component. PreventX has been running for several years, bringing prevention practitioners together to connect, share and learn to meet the biggest challenges facing the sector.
PiP Connect
PiP Connect is Safe and Equal’s ongoing, monthly drop-in space for primary prevention practitioners to come together over lunch, share insights and build relationships in an online environment. If you want to connect with other PiP members, share ideas and hear what others are up to – join us! It is an informal drop-in space, so join when you can and head off as you need to.
📅 Date: Alternating Wednesday and Thursday in the last week of every month
⏲️ Time: 12:30-1:30pm
🏢 Location: Online
🎟️ Price: Free for PiP members!
Resources
Connecting Communities 2022-2024 Summary Project Evaluation Report
This report summarises and highlights key lessons and recommendations from the evaluation of the Connecting Communities Program 2022-24, by WLK Consulting.
Driving Change Slide Deck
We’ve revamped Driving Change into engaging slide decks—ideal for workshops, presentations, or sharing with colleagues and community. This resource focuses on positive, practical solutions to take actions against the gendered drivers while keeping a focus on the change we want to see.
What is Primary Prevention? Slide Deck
We’ve revamped What is Primary Prevention? into engaging slide decks—ideal for workshops, presentations, or sharing with colleagues and community. This resource aims to promote understanding of work across the continuum from prevention to response, as well as provide practical suggestions to improve connection.
Communities
of Practice
Continue your learning and development in a safe space to exchange practice knowledge, resources and ideas, and build rich relationships.
In 2023-2024, we are offering four communities of practice to Victorian-based practitioners.
JOIN PIP
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