NEWSLETTERS

The May edition of Engender News highlights:

• 2026 Candlelight vigils
• Upcoming training, professional development and therapeutic groups
• Older Voices for Change
• Current job vacancies

Long wait times for specialist family violence counselling can deepen harm, delay recovery and healing and discourage help-seeking for victim-survivors.

Engender Equality has released two new reports – 2025 Brief Intervention Pilot Program Evaluation Report and Delayed support, heightened harm: The impacts of long wait times for specialist family violence services. Read together, these two reports illuminate the devastating impact of long wait times whilst offering a practical response to address this issue.

Our latest Newsletter highlights:

• A new project – expansion of the Advocates for Change program to include young people
• No to Violence 2026 National Conference
• International Women’s Day event
• Fundraising efforts to support an Advocates for Change project

Our latest Newsletter highlights:

• A new project – Challenging masculinity, supporting care: Practice reflections from working with fathers of trans young people
• Submission to the Federal Inquiry into the relationship between domestic, family and sexual violence and suicide
• Fundraising efforts to support an Advocates for Change project

As we move into another busy year, we would like to share some updates to our Engender Therapeutic Services with you.

• New Therapeutic Services Referral Form
• UTAS Research Project

Engender Equality elevates lived experience of family violence and imprisonment as essential expertise for real system change.

We are proud to introduce three outstanding Advocates for Change graduates whose leadership and lived experience are shaping trauma-informed and accountable responses for victim-survivors. To engage lived experience expertise or representation, please get in touch.

From 25 November to 10 December 2025 mark the 16 Days of Activism to End Gender-based Violence under the theme: “UNiTE to End Digital Violence against All Women and Girls”.  

We are proud to share a suite of new resources designed to support Tasmanian family violence practitioners and honour the powerful contribution of victim-survivors whose lived experiences have shaped these works.

Supporting general practices and Aboriginal health services in responding to family violence, sexual violence and child sexual abuse through the PCFSV Pilot program.

As we approach Brain Injury Awareness Week from 18 August 2025, it is critical that we talk about brain injuries inflicted through family violence.