Mounties Group has announced that it is donating a free Club Industry Domestic Violence Training Workshop that is open to all clubs to help amplify the sector’s role in building safer communities.
To be held across two days on Tuesday 29 October and Wednesday 30 October at Mounties Club, the training program has been designed to help club managers build their understanding of and responses to domestic, family, and sexual violence (DFSV).
The program is being spearheaded by Mounties Group executive manager community Arely Carrion and has been co-designed alongside Optimum Operating Procedures and Services founder and CEO Michelle Pascoe and relationship counsellor and educator Dr Gabrielle Morrissey.
“Everybody has a role to play – every industry, every club, every community. The time is now for our industry to play its part,” Carrion said.
“On average approximately one woman is killed every week. One in four women have experience violence by an intimate partner of family member by the age of 15.”
As part of the program, club managers will meet and hear from DFSV sector experts, understand their role as an employer and service provider, develop skills to identify and respond to abuse, learn how to create a workplace culture that is safe for victim-survivors, and collaborate with the local DV sector to increase community engagement.
This initiative has been kindly donated by Mounties Group and endorsed by the Leagues Club Australia and ClubsNSW.
For those travelling interstate to attend the workshop, accommodation is available at the Liverpool Catholic Club Mercure Hotel at a reduced rate.
To attend the free two-day training Club Industry Domestic Violence Training Workshop, register here.
Making a difference with consistent messaging
A Club Industry Domestic Family Violence Prevention Committee (CIDFVPC) has also been established to advocate for and to help develop club-wide messaging and resource campaigns when it comes to DFSV.
“The role of the committee is to reduce the number of clubs working silos in this space,” Carrion told Club Management.
She added it’s about “bringing our industry together to create consistent content and messaging that is DV specialist-informed”.
According to Carrion, over 35 club members across New South Wales, Queensland, and Victoria currently make up to the CIDFVPC.