The Gendered Violence & Work program at the University of New South Wales has been at the forefront of establishing the link between domestic, family and sexual violence and work. In addition to research, we have developed comprehensive, in-depth, gender-sensitive and tailored workplace strategies for employers in Australia and internationally who want to address the effects of domestic, family and sexual violence on their employees and organisations. These advisory and training services are designed to ensure that organisational intentions and commitments are translated into the effective development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of domestic, family and sexual violence policies and procedures. Click here for more information.
Make It Our Business is a Canadian initiative that provides information and education to help employers and other workplace stakeholders to meet their obligations under the Ontario Occupational Health and Safety Act. According to the Act, employers must prevent and respond to domestic violence in the workplace. Make It Our Business provides multi-level education programs to prepare everyone in your workplace to fulfill their roles and responsibilities. Click her for more information about the training.
Futures Without Violence provides training and education resources in the U.S.A. on domestic and sexual violence with information on methods, tips for effective education, content and interactive training exercises. Click here to see the training and education resources.
2015 Gender Academy: A global event on gender, work and development will be held in Turin, Italy from 16/11/2015 - 27/11/2015. A feature of this year's Academy will be a Master Class and workshop on Preventing and responding to gender-based violence in the world of work. Click here for more information.
It's Not OK is a community-driven behaviour change campaign to reduce family violence in New Zealand. Its goal is to change attitudes and behaviour that tolerate any kind of family violence. Click here to access a toolkit with resources for workplaces who want to play a role in preventing family violence.
The White Ribbon Campaign is a male led campaign which works to prevent violence against women. A Workplace Accreditation Program is also available which recognises workplaces that are taking active steps to prevent and respond to violence against women by accrediting them as a White Ribbon Workplace.