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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.

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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.

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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.

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This resource is related to Foundations for Change Capability 7.1.

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