
Beyond The Bell
Program: Education
Building capacity for an ongoing complex systems change initative in South West Victoria
ProjectGrampians Preventing Violence Against Women – Cross Community Collaboration
Amount$86,500
Date2015
ProgramRegional Resilience (past program)
TRUST OBJECTIVES | PROJECT OBJECTIVES |
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This grant was approved under previous grants policy (2014-2017) | |
Rural and regional Victoria | Building the potential of local groups in the Grampians region to work together to prevent violence against women |
Reducing inequality | Bringing together local community influencers such as employers to play a role in preventing violence against women |
Building organisational capacity | Building the capacity of local groups that have not traditionally focused on preventing violence against women to get involved and address this issue |
Collaboration and partnership | A broad range of regional and local health, education and legal services, local and State government, private sector organisations, community support organisations |
Creating communities of respect and equality across the Grampians region
Building on three years of active community engagement in response to the high incidence of violence against women in Western Victoria, Women's Health Grampians led this collective impact project to successfully develop an extensive Community of Practice across 11 municipalities to address the issue. In its first three years it reached more than 14,500 employees across the region and, as a long-term ongoing project, will continue to reach many more.
Image Gathering to mark the milestone of 50 members signing up to the Grampians CoRE Alliance, Ballarat, November 2016. Photo: Michelle Dunn (MDP)
The Grampians region has one of the highest rates of family violence in Victoria with rates up to 70% higher than the state average. As the region moved from awareness to action, a sustainable community-led way to engage diverse groups in the community and undertake prevention of violence against women initiatives in the region was required. 20 years of local experience, knowledge and evidence enabled Women’s Health Grampians to identify a ‘community of practice’ as the best way to meet this need in an integrated, sustainable and evidence based way.
Snapshot:
“CoRE has led to many powerful conversations in the health service offices, some challenging, but all necessary and productive – we are definitely a stronger community because of it.” Health Service CEO, following Community of Practice session
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