Posts tagged child abuse
Prioritizing Child Safety Over Gold Medals: Learning from Abuse Survivors in Sports
Prioritizing Child Safety Over Gold Medals: Learning from Abuse Survivors in Sports

The whole world watches the Olympics and Paralympics, and national pride and achievement are front and centre. In today’s post, VicHealth postdoctoral research fellow Aurélie Pankowiak (@AureliePanko) of Victoria University (@iHealthSportVU)  argues more resources need to be  invested to ensure sport participants are safe from abuse. Learning from lived experience would allow for trauma-informed guidelines for both prevention and response and enable the creation of safer sport organisations.  

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Lived experiencePower to Persuadechild abuse, Policy making, Lived/consumer experience
The 'right to recover': Healing from family, domestic and sexual violence requires community-wide action
The 'right to recover': Healing from family, domestic and sexual violence requires community-wide action

Marisa Lo Bartolo (LinkedIn), from Good Shepherd (@GoodShepANZ) reflects on the recent Australian Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Recovery and Healing Conference in Wollongong. Marisa is a Policy and Advocacy Advisor, and has a particular interest in the primary prevention of gender based violence, trauma recovery, and issues faced by LGBTIQA+ communities.

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Conferences, Gender, Policy and governance, Womens Policy Action TankPower to Persuadefamily violence, domestic violence, Recovery, child abuse, housing and homelessness, trauma, mental health
A very personal call to action for non-violent men to denounce men’s violence
A very personal call to action for non-violent men to denounce men’s violence

For decades addressing men’s violence against women has been “a women’s issue” and women’s responsibility. Women have established shelters and refuges to provide safety to women and children, women have taken to the streets to march for their safety, women have shared their lived experiences of violence and much more. We rarely hear from men or from children about their experiences of living with and witnessing men’s violence. This deeply personal piece seeks to start to change that.

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Policy and governance, AdvocacyPower to Persuadedomestic violence, family violence, child abuse, gendered violence, men's violence, gender