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Supporting survivors of family violence requires a good knowledge of the support available in the community. Below are some key organisations we hope you will learn about.
Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health
Link: https://www.mcwh.com.au/
Strengthening Our Collective Knowledge Project
Link: https://www.mcwh.com.au/project/strengthening-our-collective-knowledge/
The Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health is working together with migrant and refugee women from different backgrounds and faiths, to share relevant messages about violence against women with their communities in more meaningful ways.
Latest Resources
As part of the ‘Strengthening Our Collective Knowledge’ Project, MCWH has published 4 new videos in Thai on identifying different forms of family violence and what services are available to support those who have experienced family violence in Australia. Watch them below:
ความรุนแรงในครอบครัว – ไม่ต้องกลัวปัญหาวีซ่า – Thai
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0IEIPExB9g
Whittlesea Community Connections and the State Government of Victoria have developed fact sheets about family violence in a number of languages. See the links below to download fact sheets in English, Nepali and Sinhalese.
Nepali Fact Sheet सहयोग माग्ाले तपाईंलाई सुरक्षित रह् सहयोग ग्नेछ ।
Radio Podcast from 3RRR program, Uncommon Sense.
Professor Kate Fitz-Gibbon explains why violence against women and children is not a series of isolated incidents but a pervasive, systemic issue – and a national crisis that needs a commensurate whole of government and community response. This is outlined in her short book for Monash University Publishing; ‘Our National Crisis: Violence Against Women and Children.’ Kate is an internationally recognised expert in domestic and family violence, femicide, perpetrator interventions, and the impacts of policy and practice reform in Australia and internationally. She is a Professor (Practice) with the Faculty of Business and Economics at Monash Uni, and an Honorary Professorial Fellow with the Melbourne Law School.
Our Watch (https://www.ourwatch.org.au/)
- Report on Tracking Progress in Prevention
- Upcoming training on new resources for preventing violence against women and girls with disabilities.
11 December 2024. Online via Zoom – free. - Discussion on masculinities and the media 18 November 2024.
Register at: training@ourwatch.org.au