Change the story is an evidence-based framework to guide a coordinated and effective national approach to preventing violence against women.
It goes beyond a focus on individual behaviours to consider the broader social, political, and economic factors that drive violence against women, and the social context of gender inequality in which this violence arises.
Importantly, it outlines the essential actions needed at all levels of society – from individuals to schools, from workplaces to governments – to address these underlying drivers and stop this violence before it starts.
This is a foundational primary prevention resource that relates to many of the capabilities outlined in Foundations for Change.
Now more than ever, it’s important to look boldly at the reality of race and gender bias — and understand how the two can combine to create even more harm. Kimberlé Crenshaw uses the term “intersectionality” to describe this phenomenon; as she says, if you’re standing in the path of multiple forms of exclusion, you’re likely to get hit by both. In this moving talk, she calls on us to bear witness to this reality and speak up for victims of prejudice.
This resource is related to Foundations for Change Capabilities 1.1 and 2.3.
This federal government initiative allows you to explore a young person’s social media experience.
Social media allows young Australians to connect with others, create and maintain relationships and to express themselves. It can also expose them to a world of disrespect.
Social media algorithms, designed to prioritise and favour provocative and polarising content, can automatically serve disrespectful content and violence-supportive attitudes to young Australians, every day. During their teenage years this can influence their views and behaviour, ultimately shaping the type of person and partner they grow up to be.
It can be difficult to censor or moderate the content young people may be exposed to online. It is our responsibility to better understand it so we can empower them, help them navigate it and reject disrespect before it leads to violence.
This resource is related to Foundations for Change Capabilities 1.1, 1.2 and 2.1.
Path to Safety: Western Australia’s Strategy to Reduce Family and Domestic Violence 2020 – 2030 sets out a clear whole-of-government and community plan for reducing and responding to family and domestic violence over the next decade.
The strategy has four focus areas:
work with Aboriginal people to strengthen Aboriginal family safety
act immediately to keep people safe and hold perpetrators to account
grow primary prevention to stop family and domestic violence
reform systems to prioritise safety, accountability and collaboration.
The Strategy is supported by action plans that set out what needs to be done to achieve the long-term vision of all Western Australians living free from family and domestic violence.
This resource is related to Foundations for Change Capabilities 1.1 and 7.1.
The National Plan is the overarching national policy framework that will guide actions towards ending violence against women and children in one generation.
It highlights how all parts of society need to work together to end gender-based violence in one generation.
The National Plan outlines this vision across 4 domains:
Prevention – stopping it before it starts by changing underlying social drivers of violence, and addressing the attitudes and systems that drive violence against women and children.
Early intervention – identifying and supporting individuals who are at high risk of experiencing or perpetrating violence, and prevent it from reoccurring.
Response – providing services and supports to help victim-survivors experiencing violence. This includes crisis support, police intervention and a trauma-informed justice system that will hold people who use violence to account.
Recovery and healing – helping to reduce the risk of re-traumatisation by supporting victim-survivors as they recover from their trauma. This includes the physical, mental, emotional and economic impacts of violence.
This resource is related to Foundations for Change Capabilities 1.1, 1.4 and 7.1.
