By Oliver Lees
The Macedon Ranges community is being urged to adopt skills to identify the drivers of gender-based and family violence.
On Tuesday, October 26, Macedon Ranges residents can participate in a workshop organised by the Centre for Non-Violence and Sunbury and Cobaw Community Health (SCCH), which will teach those in attendance how to recognise and respond to incidence of violence.
The workshop is being offered as part of the lead up to the 16 Days of Activism movement, which runs from November 25 to December 10 to raise awareness of the scourge of gender-based violence.
According to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, one in six women and one in 16 men in Australia have been subjected to physical violence from an intimate partner.
SCCH chief executive Phillip Ripper said these workshops would provide critical information to the community.
“We also acknowledge the diversity of experiences of intimate partner violence. LGBTIQA+ community members experience violence in their intimate relationships at comparative rates to heterosexual and cisgender relationships. We know that this is preventable,” Mr Ripper said.
“We hope that by engaging in the 16 Days of Activism we can support prevention initiatives that really make a difference.”
