Tag: Together We Can
Standing together
Five years ago 100 male community leaders put their hands up to take responsibility for helping stamp out the growing scourge of family violence...
Football for everyone
By Hayley Wildes
My football journey started at the Lang Lang Football Club, where I participated in AusKick from a young age. It was there...
Where to go, who to call
(service)
Relationships Australia
Phone: 5990 1900 or 1300 364 277
Website: www.relationshipsvictoria.com.au/services
(call them when)
You have used violence against family members and you know...
Covering the change
By Garry Howe
Coverage of Cardinia Shire’s innovative Together We Can campaign began on a powerful note.
Among the first of over 80 stories carried in...
Counting the cost of family violence
Violence against women and their children is costing Australia $21.7 billion each year, with governments carrying more than a third of the cost burden;...
Respect is the key to a better community
Sonya Boloski is coming up to her 24th year as a Girl Guides leader.
Her years leading young girls and women have highlighted the...
Shining a light on disability sector
Women with disability experience violence at significantly higher rates, more frequently, for longer, in more ways and by more perpetrators compared to women and...
Turning over a new leaf
Casey Cardinia Libraries (CCL) has played a vital role in fostering community conversation around the impacts of family violence.
The organisation has been instrumental...
Levelling the playing field
Working within the physical activity space, Aligned Leisure has been focused on building community resilience through sport.
As Aligned Leisure’s Paige Kristalyn explains, sport...
The small acts of kindness
As a firm believer of collective change, Anni Cockburn has been working towards a community that works together regardless of differences.
As someone who...
Conversations of change
Nurse and mother of five, Medina Lamunu has been working with the South Sudanese community to promote respectful relationships and safe and peaceful communities.
“I...
Working in good faith
Jasbir Singh Suropada has been working tirelessly behind the scenes, debunking the most common myth across cultures: that faith agrees with the suppression of...