Community, Respect & Equality has now unveiled its new Strategic Plan 2025-2027, that continues to improve the understanding of primary prevention of violence against women among the community, while also enhancing sustainability of the program.
The result of consultation with Community, Respect & Equality members, and the published 2023 Wicked Lab analysis, the plan identifies the development of training opportunities and enhanced promotion to improve understanding of what drives violence against women, and how to stop it before it starts. It also seeks to foster community leaders, and build the evidence for increased investment, to ensure sustainability of the program over the long-term.
“Community, Respect & Equality has led the way in Western Australia, in the primary prevention of violence against women. It was borne in 2017, from 16 local organisations who had a vision of improving social norms, structures and practices that contribute to gender discrimination, and the unacceptably high levels of violence against women in our local Geraldton community,” says Isabel Ross, Coordinator of the Community, Respect & Equality program.
This new plan will help direct us, to ensure the progress we have made is maintained, and to build upon the foundations for greater engagement across all sectors in Geraldton. After all, violence against women is preventable if we all work together.
