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February Network Meeting: Engaging with Best Practice
Our February PiP meeting will be a facilitated discussion of best practice and the recently released Respectful Relationships Education in Secondary Schools report. In particular we will be looking at the 5 criteria for good practice outlined in chapter 3. Please visit the PiP blog for some food for thought about the limitations of best practice as a concept.
The February meeting will also feature a presentation on the eagerly anticipated DEECD demonstration project keep an eye on the PiP bulletin for further details.
Thursday 18 February 2010, 1.00-4.00pm
3rd Floor, Room 1 (Jenny Florence)
Ross House 247 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
RSVP via email ( kbear'at'dvrcv.org.au ) or phone 9486 9866 and ask for Kiri
Network Meeting Dates 2010
This year's PiP meetings will be on the following days from 1-4 pm in the Jenny Florence Room (3rd floor rm 1) at Ross House
Topics and speakers will be confirmed closer to the day.
Partners in Prevention Forum:
A podcast of the keynote presentation by Michael Flood is now available for download from the Partners in Prevention blog follow this link to view the post.
Previous network meetings
A right to respect and Respectful Relationships Education in Schools, December 2009
Engaging with the media to prevent violence against women, September 2009
Violence against women with disabilities, June 2009
Violence Prevention in Education Policy, March 2009
Sexual Health and violence prevention, December 2008
Theories of change, August 2008
Self care and vicarious trauma, June 2008
Prevention SWOT analysis, February 2008
Evaluation, October 2007
The December 2009 network meeting looked at the recently released state government plan to prevent violence against women, A Right to Respect, with particular focus on the education setting. Lara Fergus from the Office of Women's Policy gave an overview of the state plan (download Lara's power point presentation). Then David Billimoria and Erika Turner spoke to the Department of Education and Early Childhood's plans in response to the Respectful Relationships Education in Schools report download meeting notes (pdf 95kb)
The September 2009 network meeting improved participant's capacity to engage with the media. Featuring insights from Jane Ashton (Women's Domestic Violence Crisis Service) on the Media Advocacy Project. Followed by practical activities led by Antony Balmain, VicHealth's Media and Public Advocacy Coordinator download meeting notes (pdf 152kb)
The June 2009 network meeting offered an opportunity to learn and reflect on our ability to work with young people with disabilities. The statistics show that this is a group that is particularly vulnerable to interpersonal violence. How can we extend our violence prevention practice to include people of all abilities? Speakers included Kate Hood, Victorian Women with Disabilities Network and Rebecca Feldman, Youth Disability Advocacy Service download meeting notes (pdf 105kb)
The March 2009 meeting included discussion of a couple of recent, highly publicised incidents and presentations from Lara Fergus (Office of Women's Policy) and Steven O'Connor (Department of Education and Early Childhood Development) download meeting notes (pdf 118kb).
December 2008's meeting looked at the connections between relationship violence prevention and sexual health education. Presentations from Shelley Walker, Knox Community Health, Youth 'KISS' research project download powerpoint (1,113kb) and Lucy Forwood, Women's Health West 'Girls talk, Guys talk' download summary (pdf 182kb). There was also a broad discussion of current developments within the sector at the beginning of the meeting download notes (pdf 136kb).
August 2008's meeting featured a workshop on Creating Change with Dr Sue Dyson from ARCSHS (Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society). Download presentation (ppt 1,577kb)
June 2008's meeting focused on self-care and vicarious trauma for violence prevention workers and an evaluation of the first year of Partners in Prevention. Download notes (pdf 43kb)
February 2008's meeting focused on a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis of youth violence prevention in Victoria and sharing information about our work (see notes for details).
Download notes (pdf 74kb)
October 2007's meeting focused on evaluation and featured presentations from Bernie Murphy (Deakin University) and Renee Imbesi (CASA House). Download notes (pdf 34kb)
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