National Plan to Reduce Violence Against Women and their Children 2010-22 Community Action Grants
The Australian Government committed $3.75 million for Community Action Grants, distributed amongst 17 community and sporting organisations across the country to support the implementation of the National Plan and to build momentum for primary prevention of violence against women. The table below outlines the grants awarded
| Organisation Name | National/ State/ Territory | Project Description | Date Grant announced | Amount Awarded (over 3 years) |
| Australian Rugby League | National | Sporting organisation: broad-based media campaign through the NRL working with community rugby clubs across the country and promoting violence prevention through the code of conduct. A video competition for clubs showing their work to prevent violence against women. In addition, respectful relationships education for elite representative players aged 13-19 | 24/11/11 | $250,000 |
| Netball Australia Limited | National | Sporting organisation: education modules on healthy relationships and violence prevention for young players; a training course for coaches and peer education and mentoring program for Indigenous young women | 7/3/12 | $250,000 |
| Australian Football League (AFL) | National | Sporting organisation: distribution of training resources nationally, supported by train-the-trainer in each state; an online violence prevention education tool on the AFL Community Club website for young male players aged 16-25; a violence prevention quality assurance framework for state and local football clubs and toolkits for local football clubs | 19/4/12 | $244,800 |
| People with Disability Australia Inc | National | Women with disabilities: project to develop and roll out a domestic violence abuse and neglect training package focused on women with intellectual disability, staff and service providers | 24/10/11 | $147,720 |
| ACON Health Limited | New South Wales | LGBTI: project developing resources, education and reporting campaign for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) communities in NSW, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-specific materials on domestic violence prevention | 14/11/11 | $249,500 |
| Youth off the Streets | New South Wales | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities: program that works with young Aboriginal people in Griffith to develop healthy relationships free of violence, including: camps for young males at risk of becoming perpetrators, organising social and engagement activities with Elders, establishing a local Youth Advisory Group and Domestic and Family Violence Committee | 7/12/11 | $159,448 |
| inTouch Multicultural Centre Against Family Violence | Victoria
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Culturally and Linguistically Diverse communities: project will establish violence prevention taskforces in Indian, Sudanese, Vietnamese and Croatian communities across Victoria. Each taskforce will work to engage their communities in acting to prevention violence against women | 28/9/11 | $249,784 |
| Spectrum Migrant Resource Centre | Victoria | Culturally and Linguistically Diverse communities: implement Healthy Relationships in a New Culture project for newly arrived Sudanese, Somali, Indian and Iraqi (including Arabic, Assyrian/Chaldean, Kurdish) communities, using community leaders as ambassadors, in Darebin Local Government Area | 28/9/11 | $223,149 |
| La Trobe University | Victoria | Older Women: project examining underlying causes of sexual assault against older women. Primary prevention framework; resource kit and workshops targeted at preventing sexual assaults against older women | $247,958 | |
| Young Parents Program Inc. | Queensland | Young Women: VALUE-ing (Violence Ain’t Love Understanding and Empowering) project for marginalised young pregnant women and young mothers in Brisbane; deliver relationship workshops, peer leadership training, community education and provide resources to prevent violence against women | 12/12/11 | $250,000 |
| Deadlee Maardars Association Inc. | Queensland | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities: The Maroomba Maaree Bing (Strong Men and Good Fathers) program will work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men who are inmates at Woodford and Wacol Correctional facilities. The Program includes workshops, ‘yarning sessions’ on their relationships with their families, addressing family violence and how to be a great Dad | $100,000 | |
| Association for Services to Torture and Trauma Survivors Inc. | Western Australia | Culturally and Linguistically Diverse communities: the project will train leaders in African communities in metropolitan Perth to run health relationships and violence prevention workshops and community conversations | 27/10/11 | $247,875 |
| City of Stirling Community Services | Western Australia
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Primary Prevention: the project with work with youth, CALD, older women and indigenous groups in the City of Sterling to deliver violence prevention awareness activities, workshops for skills development (non-violent alternatives, conflict resolutions, anger management and respect) and art projects to engage the broader community | 27/10/11 | $250,000 |
| Vietnamese Community in Australia SA Chapter Inc. | South Australia
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Culturally and Linguistically Diverse communities: this project will deliver a culturally and linguistically appropriate primary prevention campaign for Vietnamese women in South Australia to raise awareness and reduce violence against women in Vietnamese communities in Port Adelaide, Enfield, Salisbury and Playford. The project will work collaboratively with schools and the community to encourage early intervention, prevention and education of the Vietnamese community around domestic and family violence. A bilingual resource (education CD) on positive relationships, and a training package on family relationships will be developed | 21/10/11 | $242,445 |
| Montagu Community Living | Tasmania
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Women with disabilities: To deliver Find a Friend, Keep a Friend project to support women with disabilities in Hobart and Glenorchy, building the capacity of women living with a disability to negotiate respectful relationships and to recognise abusive relationships or sexual assault | 24/10/11 | $250,000 |
| Alice Springs Women’s Shelter | Northern Territory
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities: extension of Stitch in Time program – quilt-making – working with women in Alice Springs to develop stories about violence prevention, build them into quilts and promote information to the wider community through exhibitions and resources | 25/11/11 | $125,000 |
| Canberra Rape Crisis Centre Incorporated | Australian Capital Territory | Primary Prevention – Sexual Assault: six-week educational program on sexual assault primary prevention program for students in two ACT high schools. The project uses a whole-of-school approach to preventing sexual assault, including professional development for staff, group work over 6 weeks for Year 9 students, a peer education program and awareness raising for all students. | 4/11/11 | $250,000 |
