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Below are links to websites, articles and papers relevant to preventing violence against women in Victoria, if you know of any other useful resources please contact us.
from DVRC :: from VicHealth :: Government publications:: Newspaper articles :: Other local resources :: International resources
Domestic Violence Resource Centre (Victoria)
DVRCV's website has a comprehensive list of local resources and links relating to domestic and family violence
'101 ways great and small to prevent family violence: A Victorian resource kit' contains an entire section on projects targeting children and young people. Download from the DVRCV website
DVRCV runs a variety of training programs (including sessions on working with children and young people) download a current training calendar
DVRCV produces leaflets and fliers relating to family and relationship violence, view examples and download an order form
VicHealth
Preventing violence before it occurs: a framework and background paper to guide the primary prevention of violence against women in Victoria This document presents a comprehensive ecological model to guide the primary prevention of vioelnce against women and forms the background to 'A Right to Respect' mentioned below.
Two steps forward, one step back: Community attitudes to violence against women is a research paper based on VicHealth's community attitudes survey. It makes several recommendations for effective prevention strategies.
Government Publications
A Right to Respect: Victoria's Plan to Prevent Violence Against Women outlines a whole of government strategy for reducing violence against women between 2010 and 2020.
Respectful Relationships Education in Schools is a report on best practice in secondary school violence prevention in Victoria produced by VicHealth in partnership with the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, Student Wellbeing Unit.
Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development's Responding to Allegations of Student Sexual Assault in Schools from the Student Wellbeing website.
A time for action is the federal government's plan for reducing violence against women and children. Implementation has already begun with the National Community Attitudes Survey and pilot projects in Respectful Relationships Education.
www.familyviolence.vic.gov.au provides direct access to Victorian government information on family violence and will be further developed over time to include links to regional initiatives.
Catching Online is a comprehensive Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development website devoted to sexuality education in schools.
Newspaper articles
The Age, 25/11/2009 Andrew O'Keefe - White Ribbon Chairperson on the 'My Oath' campaign
Sydney Morning Herald, 17/11/2009 One giant scar on mankind
9am with David and Kim, 09/11/2009 PiP coordinator, Kiri Bear speaks about Rihanna (sorry about the pasta commercial)
Rihanna talks to Good Morning America about Chris Brown and Domestic Violence
The Guardian (UK), 24/11/2009 research into sexual violence and song lyrics
The Age, 09/11/2009 University student's prorape page on facebook
The internet and the rise of pornThe Age, 03/01/2008, Maree Crabbe and David Corlett
Young people duped by culture of degrading sexual attitudesThe Age, 08/01/2008, Maree Crabbe
Schools in front line Herald Sun, 15/05/2009, John Masanauskus
Other local resources
Women's Health in the North and the Northern Integrated Family Violence Network have produced a short film targeting young women. There are two versions on Youtube, one with Victorian contact numbers and one with national contact numbers .
The Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse and the Australian Centre for the Study of Sexual Assault both have national online databases of good practice programs that respond to domestic violence and sexual assault respectively, including a large number aimed at young people both for prevention and intervention.
CASA House has produced an evaluation report on their widely acclaimed Sexual Assault Prevention Program for Secondary Schools (SAPPSS).
The Sexual Ethics website has been developed by a NSW research project investigating the exploration of sexual ethics as a tool for preventing sexual assault.
The Australian branch of Amnesty International has released a National Plan of Action to eliminate Violence Against Women which includes advice on prevention as well as responses to violence against women.
XYonline is an archive of profeminist articles by and for men on a broad range of issues including men's use of violence against women, pornography and violence prevention.
Women's Health West has a section of their website devoted to the prevention of violence against women with links to local prevention projects and some excellent planning tools for those initiating new violence prevention projects.
An Assault on Our Future: The impact of violence on young people and their relationships is a synthesis of national and international research on children's and young people's exposure to violence in their families and in their own relationships, its impact, and its prevention. The report is co-authored by Michael Flood and Lara Fergus.
The Australian White Ribbon Day foundation has produced a schools kit to help schools generate their own response to the White Ribbon Day campaign.
International resources
The California-based, Prevention Connection, has a 'wiki' with information on a range of materials (eg. workshop exercises, school curriculum, books, posters and dvds) about and for the primary prevention of violence against women visit violence prevention wiki
The UK website Womankind Worldwide has a range of resources and activities that schools can use with students to prevent violence against women
'Preventing violence against women and girls: A Study of Educational Programmes' This report by Jane Ellis, University of Warwick, includes a comprehensive evaluation of the schools' work in England. Download from Womankind
VAWnet is a Pensylvanian website with long lists of articles on programs, evaluation, and research on preventing violence against women (follow the 'prevention and education' link under either domestic violence or sexual assault).
Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance has links to a range of resources. Of particular interest to violence prevention practitioners is their journal 'Moving Up Stream' which focuses on the primary prevention of sexual violence.
A Canadian consortium has compiled a review of school based violence prevention programs and produced a range of resources focused on preventing violence against women and girls.
Rape Crisis Scotland has launched a campaign, entitled This is Not an Invitation to Rape Me aimed at tackling the assumptions and judgements people make about women who are raped, by stimulating debate.
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