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Community Chat July 2020
New sign ups! We would like to welcome MEEDAC to the Community, Respect and Equality Agreement! Thank you for standing with us to say #ViolenceIsNeverOk. Have a read below of why they decided to sign up, in their own words. "MEEDAC whole heartedly support a future...
Community Chat June 2020
New sign ups! We would like to welcome the National Indigenous Australians Agency (NIAA), Ruah and Health Communication Resources (HCR) to the Community, Respect and Equality Agreement! It is awesome to have these organisations on board and stand with us to say...
New prevention campaign promotes acting with kindness
Centacare Family Services recently launched their new ‘Act With Kindness, Not With Violence’ primary prevention campaign. It has a variety of approaches that aim to prevent violence in Geraldton. “Addressing family violence has always been a priority for Centacare...
Community Chat May 2020
Community Chat May 2020 What are the impacts of COVID-19 so far? Nearly all areas of our lives have been impacted by COVID-19, but as restrictions start to ease, what impacts has the COVID-19 pandemic had on family violence and the gender drivers of this violence so...
Community Chat April 2020
Welcome to our new Community, Respect and Equality Coordinator, Bethany Martin, and an update on CRE during COVID-19 We hope you are well during this time of rapid change and uncertainty that has undoubtedly affected us all in one way or another; however, just...
Community Chat February 2020
Welcome to 2020 and we hope to work with you to embed CRE Agreement actions in your workplace and community! Being a Dad – free community session for dads Join our free information session and get options for being a dad, the relationship with your partner and...
Community members win Christmas cash from survey prize draw
On Monday 16 December winners of five cash prizes were drawn from participants of a community survey undertaken by the WA Centre for Rural Health (WACRH) in Geraldton. The draw was conducted using a random number generator and was witnessed by members of local...
Community Chat December 2019
Wrapping up 2019 – Community, Respect and Equality Sundowner To wrap up the year, Desert Blue Connect held a final CRE Sundowner for stakeholders with guest speaker Tania Cecconi, Executive Officer for CEOs for Gender Equity. Tania spoke on “turning the dial” on...
Community, Respect and Equality Sundowner: Gender equality – good for business and the right thing to do
As the end of the year is quickly arriving we are happy to announce the final Community, Respect and Equality (CRE) event of the year, the CRE Sundowner where we will hear Tania Cecconi, executive officer of CEOs for Gender Equity, speak on how gender equality is not...
Community Chat October 2019
CRE members are invited to the publication launch of “Making the Invisible Visible” WA Centre for Rural Health invites CRE members to join them for the launch of the new local publication “Making the Invisible Visible”, an initiative to raise awareness of the...