Domestic Violence Community Education
Domestic Violence Community Education (DVCE) is a service which aims to increase the community's ability to appropriately respond to domestic and family violence by raising awareness and understanding through education and community development projects.
DVCE Offers:
- Tailored workshops, seminars and information sessions for professionals, organisations and other members of the community.
- Support with community development activities.
Education workshops are interactive, informative and can be developed to meet the needs of each group.
Community Education
Community education workshops on domestic and family violence can be provided for government and non-government organisations and community groups such as, but not limited to:
- Counsellors
- Mediators
- Police
- Nurses
- Youth workers
- Social workers
- Volunteers
- Parents
- Arts workers
- Legal Practioners
- Community Health Services
- Women's Health Services
- Alcohol and Other Drug Services
- Students and teachers (Secondary & Tertiary)
Themes that can be covered:
- What is domestic and family violence?
- The cycle of violence
- Barriers for women identifying and leaving abusive relationships
- Effects of domestic and family violence
- Respectfully responding to domestic and family violence
- Myths about domestic and family violence
Projects:
Research Project
Exploring the voices and experiences of victim/ survivors of Domestic and Family Violence in the NT Justice System through a Journey Map.
Like to know more?
- Could your workplace benefit from a domestic and family violence community education workshop designed to increase understanding on issues surrounding domestic and family violence?
- Would clients that you work with benefit from staff being more aware of domestic and family violence?
- Do you think that the people that you work with would benefit from being involved in a community development project focussed on empowering communities to work with issues surrounding domestic and family violence?
