Corporate and Community Engagement Framework
Responsible government
- Queensland
Fourth Action Plan actions
- Primary prevention is key
- 2 Improve coordination across primary prevention activities to maximise their impact on community attitudes and behaviours that lead to violence.
What are we doing?
The Queensland Government is working with corporate and community organisations to embed domestic and family violence awareness, support and prevention into their organisation. Support and information has been provided through The DFV Prevention Corporate and Community Forum: Safe at home, work and play event held in 2019 which brought together more than 130 organisations who heard from DFV specialists about the DFV sector, shared best-practice examples of addressing DFV in the workplace, and committed to taking action against domestic and family violence. The outcomes of this forum have informed the development of the Corporate and Community Engagement Framework.
The release of the Framework and additional tools to help guide action by corporate and community partners has been delayed by the impacts of COVID-19. A number of initiatives are ongoing to engage corporate and community organisations including a Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Corporate Roundtable, Lunchbox Sessions and launch of the Not Now Not Ever Together Website.
What have we achieved so far?
- Empowering Queenslanders to promote cultural change through annual Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Month activities and the Investing in Queensland Women grant program.
- Launching the Not Now Not Ever Together Website providing advice to corporate and community organisations on what action they can take to end domestic and family violence.
- 25 organisations taking a public pledge committing to working to end domestic and family violence in Queensland.
- Forming partnerships with organisations such as Telstra, the Local Government Association of Queensland and the National Retail Association to help initiate programs and projects to further create awareness of domestic and family violence and its impacts within their workplaces and networks.
What is next?
- Release the Corporate and Community Engagement Framework and additional tools to help support and guide organisations to take action to address domestic and family violence within their workplaces and communities (delayed due to impacts of COVID-19).
- Continue to build relationships and partnerships and identify opportunities for collaboration between the corporate and domestic and family violence sectors.
What difference will we make?
Intended outcomes include:
- More Queenslanders are aware of the different types of domestic and family violence
- Positive perceptions towards gender equality are improved
- Increased intolerance towards domestic and family violence
- More Queenslanders are aware of the different types of domestic and family violence
- More Queenslanders indicate that all types of domestic and family violence are unacceptable.
Indicators of success include:
- Increased percentage of participating organisations that report changes in policy and/or approach to domestic and family violence
- Increased number of partnerships between government and non-government organisations to prevent domestic and family violence
- Workplaces engage in any domestic and family violence initiatives (i.e. employee support programs, leadership, awareness raising, fundraising, etc.)
- A greater proportion of bystanders understand how to safely intervene
- A greater proportion of Queenslanders believe it is important to change our culture
- A greater proportion of victims know where to access help.