respect ballarat grants Program
respect Ballarat Grants Program
Respect Victoria has partnered with the Ballarat Foundation to administer a grants program as part of Respect Ballarat. $1 million is being held in stewardship by the Ballarat Foundation, who will administer a grants program to support local organisations to work in purposeful partnerships to deliver targeted 12-month prevention and early intervention initiatives that support behaviour change work in Ballarat.
The grants will focus on:
- Building partnerships between local organisations, prevention and community organisations to further prevention work
- Building prevention knowledge, understanding and action in workplaces and communities
- Seeking local solutions to behaviour change to prevent gendered violence.
Respect Ballarat Grants Announcement
The Ballarat Foundation in partnership with Respect Victoria, with the support of the Minister for Prevention of Family Violence Ingrid Stitt, today announced the recipients of 11 grants to support the work of Respect Ballarat.
A community approach to preventing gendered violence, Respect Ballarat is a model co-designed with local people and organisations. It aims to reach the whole Ballarat community in all the places that people work, learn, live and play.
Beginning work in the coming weeks, funded organisations will deliver targeted 12-month prevention and early intervention initiatives that address the gendered drivers of violence.
The projects focus on building partnerships to further prevention work, building local knowledge and action, and exploring local solutions for prevention.
The initiatives include:
- work with young people in local sports clubs to tackle harmful gender stereotypes
- initiatives to support work with new parents to support safe and healthy families
- cross-sector partnership to build on respectful relationships work in local schools
- work in TAFE to build prevention understanding and confidence with educators and students, with a focus on unpacking harmful masculinities
- projects to equip male sports leaders with prevention knowledge, and to support them to safely put it into action on and off the field
- community-led prevention work with culturally diverse leaders, young people and families
- targeted approaches to prevention in local construction and trades settings
- a community-led approach to building young LGBTIQA+ people’s knowledge of healthy relationships, and how to recognise and respond to violence
Successful grants include:
Centre for Multicultural Youth, Join Us For Change, $99,180
Headspace Ballarat, Trade Voices: Understanding Help Seeking and Respect in FED TAFE, $100,000
Ballarat Community Health, Expect Respect: Changing the script on relationships, $100,000
Ballarat Community Health, Baby Makes 3, $99,200
Ballarat Community Health, Building Gender Equity in the Early Years, $73,309
Ballarat Community Health, Positive Wellbeing in Sporting Clubs, $33,000
Sports Central, Ballarat Allies in Sport, $90,000
St Alipius Parish Ballarat East and Parishes of the Ministry District, Faith Communities Focusing on Prevention: Building Respectful Communities, $95,600
Drummond Street Services QHub, Respectful Queer Relationships, $37,877
Ballarat Centre Against Sexual Assault CASA, Grampians Health, Culture of Respect Round: Central Highlands Football and Netball League, $99,847
CatholicCare Victoria, Building Respect – Construction and Trades Culture Shift, $100,000
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