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PRIMARY PREVENTION HELPDESK
Contact our team for information, resources and advice on working to prevent family and gender-based violence in Victoria.
Preventing family and gender-based violence before it occurs is called primary prevention. This is long-term, complex work that involves addressing the underlying gendered drivers – the social norms, attitudes, structures and practices that contribute to gender inequality.
Primary prevention work is carried out by organisations and individual practitioners across a range of settings. Education, local government, women’s health services and specialist family violence services all play key roles in delivering prevention initiatives, alongside specialist primary prevention organisations.
View links to the foundational frameworks, strategies and evidence that underpins work to prevent violence against women in Victoria.
Download a glossary of terms used in the Victorian prevention of violence against women sector.
Understand the four core factors that drive violence against women, as well as ‘reinforcing factors’ that can make this form of violence worse.
The history, organisations, settings and challenges that make up Victoria’s prevention of family and gender-based violence sector.
Guidance on monitoring progress in primary prevention on a population and project level.
Guidance for managers and supervisors leading teams that work to prevent family violence and violence against women.
Tools and resources for supporting schools and early childhood services to deliver respectful relationships education in Victoria.
How managers, supervisors and other workplace leaders can create change and play a valuable role in preventing family and gender-based violence.
What to say and do to support a colleague, student or client if they disclose an experience of family violence or sexual assault.
Tools for understanding and planning for different types of resistance in work to promote gender equality and prevent violence against women.
Contact our team for information, resources and advice on working to prevent family and gender-based violence in Victoria.
If you are experiencing family violence, there are services that can provide support and advice. They will listen to you and help you to explore your options and think about what you want to do next.
For support across Australia, contact 1800 RESPECT (1800 737 732) or visit 1800respect.org.au.
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.
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