Welcome

    This is the new website for Take a Stand against Domestic Violence: It's Everyone's Business (Take a Stand); it is being developed regulary - please do drop back from time to time to see what's new!

    Take a Stand, a social enterprise, is a business-wide program.

    Take a Stand helps prevent domestic violence before it occurs by changing attitudes and behaviours that support violence.

    Take a Stand can strengthen your workplace to be a safe, respectful and supportive space that takes a stand against domestic violence.

    Take a Stand works with businesses to implement the three elements of the program:
    Lead
    Executive commitment and workplace policy

    Train
    Using flexible delivery, all staff gain the skills and confidence to take a stand against domestic violence. Managers and HR staff are also trained in how to support those affected, including where to refer.

    Promote
    Activities and resources are provided to help raise awareness of domestic violence.
    History of the program

    Take a Stand is the result of a project conducted by Women's Health Victoria in partnership with Linfox, with funding from VicHealth.

    Women’s Health Victoria’s Working Together Against Violence project used workplaces as a setting for the primary prevention of violence against women. The project aimed to strengthen the organisational capacity of a male-dominated workplace (Linfox) to promote gender equality and non-violent norms. The project was funded by VicHealth and conducted in two phases from 2007 to 2011.

    The final report discusses the theoretical grounding for the project, what is effective in engaging a company in the prevention of domestic violence, as well as what works in embedding and sustaining this work. The findings of this report make a valuable contribution to the evidence base for the primary prevention of violence against women using workplaces as the setting.
    Working together against violence: executive summary (pdf)

    Working together against violence: final report (pdf)
                                                         


                                   




     "There is no doubt in my mind that we can, if we choose, eliminate domestic violence from our world. The real question is:
    do we choose to?"

    The Rt. Hon. Baroness Scotland of Asthal QC

     
     
    Take a Stand against Domestic Violence: It's Everyone's Business.                                                                      ABN 33 365 284 944

    Women's Health Victoria is a registered health promotion charity with deductible gift recipient status; as such any donations to Take a Stand are tax deductible.