This Partners in Prevention (PiP) Network event, hosted by Safe and Equal, will bring practitioners together to explore gender transformative practice in primary prevention.

Gender transformative practice in primary prevention draws on a rich global history of gender transformative work, particularly in public health, and community led advocacy. This history is now at an exciting turning point. The appetite for deep transformative work with communities is growing in Victoria. Changing with Pride is forthcoming as a new national framework to prevent gender-based violence with and for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer and asexual (“LGBTIQA+”) people and communities. Safe and Equal has harvested insights from practitioners and existing evidence in a new resource Transforming gender: Insights for primary prevention practice.

But at the same time, resistance to gender equality is on the rise, anti-trans movements are growing and resourced, the manosphere is gaining influence, particularly in the lives of young people and how they understand gender.

Drawing on practitioner insights, current evidence and Safe and Equal’s new resource Transforming gender: Insights for primary prevention practice, the event will create space to reflect on the changing landscape for primary prevention and gender transformative work, share practice insights and connect with peers.

The event will include an opening panel discussion, followed by facilitated table conversations to support peer learning, reflection and connection.

This event is an in-person only event with morning tea/light lunch provided.

Live captioning and Auslan interpreting available on request.

Agenda

9.30am Registration and tea/coffee

10.00am Event starts

Introduction and Welcome to Country

Safe and Equal CEO Joumanah El-Matrah, opening remarks

10.40am Panel discussion

Q&A with audience

11.40am Morning tea/light lunch

12.10pm Table discussions

1.10pm Large group reflections

1.30pm Event concludes

Audience

This event is aimed at practitioners and leaders working in primary prevention from across the sector, including government working at the local and state level. Along with organisations working across early intervention, response and recovery.

Event aim

The aim of the PiP in Person event is to create space for practitioners to explore gender transformative practice, engage with this changing landscape and workshop with other practitioners about how they are navigating this, and what is needed next. It will combine practitioner voices and perspectives through a panel discussion and include facilitated table conversations to support peer learning, reflection and connection.

Evaluation

Following the event, there will be an evaluation survey emailed to all attendees. We ask that you please complete this survey so that we can understand what worked well, how we could improve in the future, and other topics and activities that could support you in your practice.

Some important information to note before you proceed with registering:

At Safe and Equal we collect some personal data about you, and we acknowledge that this information is personal and can be sensitive. We want to assure you that Safe and Equal treats data privacy and security as our utmost priority. For more information on our data storage and management policies, please view our Privacy Policy here.

Safe and Equal are committed to ensuring that our events are inclusive, welcoming, and culturally safe for all individuals and believe everyone has the right to freely express who they are.

Only questions marked with an asterisk are compulsory. We have included additional and non-mandatory questions in the personal demographic section to support you in feeling represented when undertaking the registration process for this event. Some of these questions are related to your gender identity, pronouns and whether you have any access and support needs. Collecting this data allows us to get to know a little more about you and understand the reach and impact of our work, as well as what services and support you may need to have the best experience at this event.

At Safe and Equal we use de-identified information in our reporting for compliance and funding, and to monitor, and evaluate our programs.

If you have any questions, want to raise something with us or want to amend your information in this data collection process, please feel free to get in touch with us via prevention@safeandqual.org.au and note ‘PiP Network event’ in the subject line.

Contact the host of PiP in Conversation: Gender Transformative Practice (in-person only event)