Violence Prevention Australia’s Post

Friday saw the launch of the State's first dedicated primary prevention strategy (2024 to 2028) to address domestic, family and sexual violence. Please use this link to read the strategy:  https://lnkd.in/gTHQwZ_U The $38.3 million strategy has three key priorities: 1. Progressing prevention action in priority settings such as community, schools, early education, workplaces, sports clubs  2. Supporting Aboriginal led prevention 3. Building centralised supports and the evidence base The CCDVC welcomes this strategy, reinforcing that domestic, family and sexual violence is preventable.

Meaningful violence prevention requires communities to intervene directly with youth at high risk for future violence. Family Group Decision Making (FGDM) and Family Team Meetings (FTMs) are promising practices for early intervention but may not be commonly leveraged as criminal justice innovations across the nation. As jurisdictions seek to prevent and intervene in violence, they should consider engaging family members of at-risk youth to ensure they receive proper psychological, social, and educational support. Please join us for this engaging presentation led by criminal justice practitioners at the York county County District Attorney’s Office in Pennsylvania. Presenters will discuss how criminal justice professionals can collaborate with community and government professionals, as well as the families of at-risk adolescents, to support the community’s youth and mitigate the risk of future violent behavior. They will also explore strategies to leverage grant funding, research partnerships, and technical assistance to move violence prevention and intervention efforts forward. Register now at https://lnkd.in/dT5PDXv.

Developing a Power-Building Model for Community Violence Prevention The CDC Foundation is partnering with Human Impact Partners (HIP) and Health Resources in Action (HRiA) to pilot a project to gauge the readiness and applicability of community power-building strategies for violence prevention interventions in four US cities: Atlanta, Georgia; Boston, Massachusetts; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Oakland, California. The goal is to co-create a model for this type of program, alongside community members, organizations and health departments. HIP is providing technical assistance and webinars on community power-building strategies, and HRiA is working on a program called WEaving A Violence-prevention Ecosystem (WEAVE). Through this component, HRiA is conducting a landscape analysis of violence prevention interventions in each community and then hosting two-day convenings to further engage these various stakeholders to continue to map the violence prevention ecosystem and make connections across organizations working in this space. https://lnkd.in/eSzTctmW

Why do you do what you do? This might be a deceptively simple question, more so, when you sit down together as a team and think about the collective purpose of your work. At Charkha, we deliberated, discussed and then deliberated some more on this during our 3-day mentorship workshop conducted by Prevention Collaborative at our Delhi office. Our utmost gratitude goes to our facilitators, Binita and Dominique who sat with us through each and every discussion and facilitated new modes of thinking. Prevention Collaborative is a global network working to reduce violence against women and children by strengthening the capacity of key actors to deliver effective prevention programmes, based on feminist principles and evidence-and practice-based learning. These three days were spent intensively examining the principles of program design, and putting our learnings into creating a new one. Context setting allowed us to thoroughly examine the areas we work in, stakeholder management ensured that we consider every actor who plays a role in our programs, direct or indirect. We went into and beyond the brackets of activities, outputs and outcomes to see how they are connected to each other and to our end goal. While designing interventions regarding gender-based violence, we often forget about the nuances of community relationships and multiple identities of our primary stakeholders, in our case – adolescent girls. This workshop provided us with the necessary tools to look at program design, and violence, from a deep, multi-faceted outlook. It also gave us the perspective and assurance that as a team, our intentions, ideas and approaches are aligned, something we derive our energy from. Binita and Dominique facilitated these discussions and activities with such ease, warmth and enthusiasm, that made these three days full of fun and ‘Eureka’ moments! We are excited to implement our learnings and move towards our goal where adolescent girls live violence free and have the freedom to explore and make their own decisions. Chetna V. Uzma S. Jasmine Grover Nitesh Tiwari PRASANTA A. Rahul joshi Varsha Rani SHAMS TAMANNA

POIC will present at the Safe States 2024 Annual Injury & Violence Prevention Conference will be held August 20-22 in Portland, Oregon! https://lnkd.in/gdvV_y9F Safe States 2024 Annual Injury & Violence Prevention Conference will be held August 20-22 in Portland, Oregon! Keynote Session Tuesday, August 20: Healed People Can Heal People - A Holistic Approach to Community Violence: Community violence has undeniably become a public health issue. Crime has risen nationally over the past three years, and Portland is no different. Seeing this rise in 2020, Portland Opportunities Industrialization Center (POIC) began leading a concerted effort towards expanding violence prevention and intervention, taking a community-driven approach to mitigate the harm. Join us as we hear from POIC and members of its Community Care Team about the holistic approach to Portland’s community violence. The path to dismantling the injustice that fuels the rise in violence lies in each of us working together.

Why do you do what you do? This might be a deceptively simple question, more so, when you sit down together as a team and think about the collective purpose of your work. At Charkha, we deliberated, discussed and then deliberated some more on this during our 3-day mentorship workshop conducted by Prevention Collaborative at our Delhi office. Our utmost gratitude goes to our facilitators, Binita and Dominique who sat with us through each and every discussion and facilitated new modes of thinking. Prevention Collaborative is a global network working to reduce violence against women and children by strengthening the capacity of key actors to deliver effective prevention programmes, based on feminist principles and evidence-and practice-based learning. These three days were spent intensively examining the principles of program design, and putting our learnings into creating a new one. Context setting allowed us to thoroughly examine the areas we work in, stakeholder management ensured that we consider every actor who plays a role in our programs, direct or indirect. We went into and beyond the brackets of activities, outputs and outcomes to see how they are connected to each other and to our end goal. While designing interventions regarding gender-based violence, we often forget about the nuances of community relationships and multiple identities of our primary stakeholders, in our case – adolescent girls. This workshop provided us with the necessary tools to look at program design, and violence, from a deep, multi-faceted outlook. It also gave us the perspective and assurance that as a team, our intentions, ideas and approaches are aligned, something we derive our energy from. Binita and Dominique facilitated these discussions and activities with such ease, warmth and enthusiasm, that made these three days full of fun and ‘Eureka’ moments! We are excited to implement our learnings and move towards our goal where adolescent girls live violence free and have the freedom to explore and make their own decisions. Chetna V. Uzma S. Jasmine Grover Nitesh Tiwari PRASANTA A. Rahul joshi Varsha Rani SHAMS TAMANNA

Today the NSW government launched that state’s first primary prevention strategy for family, domestic and sexual violence in NSW. The strategy aims to address the underlying beliefs and cultures that enable the use of violence against women and children. Here’s what NTV CEO Phillip Ripper had to say about the launch in the Government’s media release: “Men’s use of domestic, family and sexual violence is not inevitable. NSW’s first standalone primary prevention strategy outlines how we can work together to address the underlying causes of domestic, family and sexual violence and stop violence before it occurs.” “Collective commitment to these actions can help reduce the burden on services that provide crisis responses to domestic, family and sexual violence.” “NTV particularly welcomes the focus on supporting Aboriginal-led prevention to ensure there are culturally safe and strengths-based approaches that centre the knowledge, culture, and resilience of Aboriginal peoples.” Jodie Harrison Hannah Tonkin Chris Minns Domestic Violence NSW Full Stop Australia Read the NSW Government’s media release here: https://lnkd.in/gbeT-AFR.

World Elder Abuse Awareness Day took place on Saturday and this year Sage Advocacy points to work the HSE is doing to bring focus to the issue of sexual abuse of older people. The HSE National Safeguarding Office, in its 'An Uncomfortable Truth' event to mark the day, highlighted recent research by Dr Daniel Kane et al, which showed that older victims of sexual assault presenting at Sexual Abuse Treatment Units across Ireland, face very particular problems that demand tailored interventions and strong support systems: https://t.co/lmPqnXQlYH . For example, assault by a person in authority was significantly more common in older age groups (11.7% vs 1.8% in general population). The HSE has also disseminated a useful resource to raise professional awareness of the signs of sexual violence against older people, which notes that "Everyone has a role to play" and calls on people to RECOGNISE – RESPOND – REPORT: https://bit.ly/45q0Yfj

How Early Prevention Can Stop Violence Before It Starts.

We were pleased to hear the Victorian Government's announcement today of ongoing investment and commitment to primary prevention for the Ballarat region.    Investment in primary prevention means we can work to change the attitudes and behaviours that drive the type of violence that has led to 31* murders of women in Australia so far this year, including three from the Ballarat region.    Safe and Equal CEO Tania Farha says that while this week’s announcements are welcome, we are yet to see additional funding for specialist family violence services, including in Ballarat. “It’s great to see a focus on delivering stronger referral pathways between prevention programs and specialist response services, but we need to ensure that those services are adequately funded so that people experiencing violence can access the support they need when they need it,” said Ms Farha.    “If we are to end family violence, primary prevention initiatives need to work in concert with response and recovery services, to support people experiencing family violence on their journey to safety”.  Safe and Equal welcome the investment in primary prevention initiatives for Ballarat and continue to advocate to ensure that we can effectively work across the continuum of prevention, early intervention, response and recovery services for a well-supported system that can holistically and effectively drive down violence against women. https://lnkd.in/gEfQXjZk  * Many deaths go unacknowledged as family violence or gender-based violence, including missing people or deaths that are still being investigated - so the number of women killed this year is likely much higher than 31, which is the figure currently published by Destroy the Joint.