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SUMMARY:Framing Age Workshop | Holstep Health
DESCRIPTION:Join a free 3-hour workshop to make sure your communications avoid ageist language and imagery \n\n\n\n\nWe all want a community that respects and values people at every age. Sometimes the way we communicate can unintentionally reinforce age-based stereotypes. By thinking differently about how we speak and represent ageing\, we can help create more inclusive communities. \nWho is this for? \n· People working in communications\, human resources\, ageing\, or programs for older people such as community development and health promotion \n· Professionals working directly with older people in settings such as community centres\, libraries\, retirement living\, healthcare and fitness \nWhat you will gain \n· Build confidence using positive\, age-inclusive language \n· Practical tools to communicate effectively across diverse groups \n· Strategies to challenge age-related stereotypes \nThe workshop includes videos\, group discussions\, and practical activities. \nRegister here
URL:https://southsafe.org.au/event/framing-age-workshop-holstep-health/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20260728T154500
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SUMMARY:Educators and professionals: Recognising online coercive control in young people's lives | eSafety Commissioner
DESCRIPTION:It’s not always easy to spot when a relationship becomes controlling\, especially for young people. Coercive control is a pattern of abusive behaviours that uses manipulation\, monitoring\, surveillance\, pressure\, and fear to limit someone’s freedom and independence. When technology is involved\, it can be even harder to recognise. This webinar for secondary educators\, and school support staff will explore: \n• how technology-facilitated coercive control impacts young people \n• the common red flags to watch for \n• practical ways to respond and support those experiencing it. \nRegister here \n 
URL:https://southsafe.org.au/event/educators-and-professionals-recognising-online-coercive-control-in-young-peoples-lives-esafety-commissioner/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Woor-Dungin Yarning Circle
DESCRIPTION:Our next Yarning Circle will be held online on Thursday 30 July\, from 12.00 and we are pleased to welcome Tariro Makwasha\, Chief Operations Officer of Self-Determination Fund as our Guest Speaker for the session. \nAt our recent Yarning Circle\, there was strong interest in learning more about the Self-Determination Fund and its evolving role in supporting First Nations Community Organisations.\nOriginally established to support Traditional Owner groups preparing for Treaty negotiations\, the Self-Determination Fund is now also moving towards deeper engagement with Aboriginal Community Organisations. \nTariro will join us to share more about the work of the Self-Determination Fund\, current developments\, and the importance of supporting First Peoples’ rights to economic self-determination.\nThis will be a valuable conversation for ACCOs\, philanthropic partners and allies who are thinking about what it means to support Aboriginal-led priorities with trust\, respect and accountability. \n  \nRegister here \n 
URL:https://southsafe.org.au/event/woor-dungin-yarning-circle/
LOCATION:Online
ORGANIZER;CN="Woor-Dungin":MAILTO:info@woor-dungin.com.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20260804T123000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20260804T140000
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SUMMARY:16 Days Regional Convening: Southern Metro Region | Safe + Equal
DESCRIPTION:The 16 Days of Activism is the annual global campaign to galvanise action against gender- based violence. Each year across Victoria and around the world\, communities mobilise and draw on their own strengths to stand up for respect\, and a world free from violence. \nFunded by Respect Victoria\, the 16 Days of Activism Grassroots Initiative aims to build the capacity of Victorian organisations delivering activities under the campaign\, by delivering consistent messaging\, facilitating connection\, and providing resources and support. \nThe 2026 campaign will build on the momentum of the last two years\, and respond to insights from campaigners around the benefits of connecting with other organisations delivering work locally. As such\, to kick off this year’s campaign we will be hosting ten online Regional Convenings\, to bring together organisations working in each of the nine women’s health catchments\, and one statewide event. \nThe purpose of these sessions is to share updates on this year’s campaign\, and create a space where organisations working locally can meet\, share learnings\, and begin to plan their 2026 activities. \nPlease register for the session for your region or local area. If you aren’t able to join on that date\, you are welcome to join the final session for organisations operating statewide. \nWe look forward to seeing you there! \nRegister here
URL:https://southsafe.org.au/event/16-days-regional-convening-southern-metro-region-safe-equal/
LOCATION:Online
ORGANIZER;CN="Safe and Equal":MAILTO:admin@safeandequal.org.au
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SUMMARY:Exploring collective possibilities to STOP intimate partner homicide | ShantiWorks
DESCRIPTION:We want to learn together to create possibilities to interrupt conditions of entrapment and oppression in the lives of victims-survivors (adults and children) and intentionally share responsibility for intervening and responding to domestic and family violence risk and lethality.\nAt the time of writing this flyer\, in Australia 2026:\n•26 women have been murdered due to violence against women (Counting Dead Women Australia Project).\n•36 women and 15 children murdered “based on every known Australian woman and child killed as a result of murder\, manslaughter or neglect from White Settlement to now” (Australian Femicide Watch\, 2026). \nThis is the context in which we work. These murders highlight that there is a need for all of us to keep learning.\nThis workshop invites practitioners\, leaders and teams to come together to reflect on the systems we are part of and the role we each play in responding to domestic and family violence. Together\, we will explore the assumptions\, practices and organisational responses that shape our work\, and consider how they can either create realistic safety options or further contribute to entrapment. \nDrawing on Professor Jane Monckton Smith’s 8-Stage Homicide Timeline\, we will use stories of domestic violence homicide to deepen our understanding of coercive control\, escalating risk and the points where intervention might make a difference. Together\, we will explore what these stories teach us about working more effectively with victim/survivors (adults and children)\, holding perpetrators to account\, and strengthening our responses across services.\nBy strengthening our collective imagination and practice\, we increase our capacity to consider how we respond to victims/survivors\, perpetrators and families in ways that is dignifying for all\, increases the potential for realistic safety options\, and supports the work of accountability with perpetrators and intervening systems. \nRegister here
URL:https://southsafe.org.au/event/exploring-collective-possibilities-to-stop-intimate-partner-homicide-shantiworks/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20260908T100000
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SUMMARY:Supporting children and young people to heal from the trauma of family violence | ACF
DESCRIPTION:Children and young people do not escape family violence unaffected. It destabilises the foundations of their development and undermines the strengths of relationships around them. The work with these children and their families is complex and requires a focus on hope and relational strength as central to recovery. This workshop is grounded in the extensive practice and work within the Australian Childhood Foundation\, which is long acknowledged and respected in the family violence sector. \nChildren experience family violence deep in their mind and body – they see it\, often hear it and their bodies react to it as a threat to their survival. Experiences of family violence define what children can say when and to whom. It determines how they react and it sometimes makes the truth a secret.\nFor many children family violence disconnects them from their family\, their community and their place in the world. It forces their routines to be less certain\, less predictable.  Children experience loss as a result of family violence. They sometimes have to leave behind their home\, pets\, neighbourhood\, school – everything that is familiar. \nThis workshop explores all of these elements and supports practitioners to work in a child focused and relationally reparative context with parents and children following experiences of family violence. The Safe and Secure Practice Framework is explored and provides a map for supporting children to heal from family violence. The foundation of the framework ensures addressing the dynamics of family violence\, cultural integration\, and collaboration. Outcomes include strengthening connections\, enabling meaning making\, and promoting growth and recovery. \nThe workshop builds on the framework of the neurobiology of trauma\, specifically exploring the impact of family violence trauma within families\, and on children. The workshop offers a hope-based recovery model for engaging   children and families to begin the process of healing from family violence. This model considers the diversity of the experience of family violence and acknowledges and builds on relational strengths with a key focus on relational safety. This workshop is suitable for all practitioners working with families who have experienced family violence. \nFacilitator\nThis training is delivered by experienced professional trainers with expertise and experience in trauma informed intervention and practice. Our trainers have a strong understanding of trauma and its impact on children and families\, translating this knowledge into practice in a range of professional contexts. A focus on application to practice via discussion and strategy is a core component of the workshop.\nRegister here
URL:https://southsafe.org.au/event/supporting-children-and-young-people-to-heal-from-the-trauma-of-family-violence-acf/2026-09-08/
LOCATION:Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="Australian Childhood Foundation":MAILTO:support@childhood.org.au
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