Respect Victoria has outlined how it plans to drive efforts to prevent family violence and violence against women over the next five years with the launch of a special new plan.
Chief Executive of Respect Victoria, Emily Maguire said the Strategic Plan 2023-2028 set out prevention approaches that worked and were underpinned by the best available evidence.
“Preventing violence against women and family violence is a challenge that belongs to every single Victorian,” Ms Maguire said.
“Preventing violence starts by addressing the culture that allows it to happen, and we must continue building the evidence on what we know works to keep driving change,” she said.
“Challenging the attitudes and behaviours that drive violence must happen in our homes, workplaces, communities, relationships and friendships, sporting clubs, and anywhere that we live, work and play.”
Ms Maguire said that in its five-year strategy, Respect Victoria’s strategic vision remained clear – a Victoria where everyone was safe, equal, respected and lives free from family violence and violence against women.
She said preventing family violence and violence against women was a monumental task requiring transformational social change, “policy and legislative change can only take us so far.”
“This strategy positions us to collaborate and lead on prevention in Victoria, and to support evidence-informed primary prevention that will ultimately lead to cultural change across the community,” the Chief Executive said.
“We can’t do this alone,” she said.
“We encourage every single person in Victoria to join us in the movement to prevent violence against women, and to move towards a future where we are all safe, equal and respected.”
Respect Victoria’s 22-page Strategic Plan can be accessed at this PS News link.
