Become an Ambassador of Rotary SAFE Families

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How YOUR Club can be easily involved to support Rotary SAFE Families

Our focus is on primary prevention.  It aims to change the attitudes and behaviours that drive abuse by increasing and improving gender equality and respect in all aspects of everyday life.  We challenge Government, women and men, boys and girls to change the structures, norms, practices, attitudes and behaviours that cause this abuse by challenging its underlying drivers – gender inequality and disrespect for women and each other.

  • Select an Ambassador from your Club to represent your Members. 
  • Be regularly updated with the latest news and messages via your Ambassador.
  • Take one of the Latest News items and place in your Bulletin or Newsletter.
  • Have wallet cards and a pullup banner made with your Club logo.
  • Discuss and create conversations about abuse as it is still very much a "taboo" topic that lives in silence.
  • Provide messages of hope and encouragement to raise awareness of the traumatic problem of abuse both in Australia and worldwide. Replace with the importance and need for healthy, respectful relationships.
  • Contact Dorothy Gilmour to sponsor your local senior school in the "Towards Respectful Relationships" initiative.  

Your Club and your Members have the ability to shatter stereotypes, myths, and stigma, helping your local communities and schools to see the realities of family abuse while being a leader in providing real hope and support for change.

Rotary SAFE Families trusts you will discuss and become informed in applying the "3R's" of primary prevention of abuse.

  • 1. Recognise signs of abuse
  • 2. Raise your concerns "safely" with victim; never the perpetrator
  • 3. Refer victim to 000 (if emergency), or a support organisation OR Make the call yourself!

Check out the Rotary SAFE Families website (www.rotarysafefamilies.org.au) and/or email Dorothy Gilmour via: info@rotarysafefamilies.org.au 

You can freely access:

  • SAFE Families logo enabling your Club name to be placed alongside logo (see Tab: "Ambassadors");
  • Access to the template for printing Wallet Cards. Accessed under "Resources".  Note you can place your Club logo in the top right hand corner before printing or alter the front as you prefer. Wallet cards are a simple way of promotion plus the card has some key emergency phone numbers for a victim or possible victim.
  • The "Guide for Prevention of Family Abuse in Australia" is currently in English and eight languages so far. It is very important that we provide prevention of abuse and Australian laws to our CALD communities (culturally and linguistically diverse).  Print it out and give to Community Leaders of diverse communities in your neighbourhood. 
  • Download or request booklet: "Do We Understand Our Young People".  This booklet is designed for parents, grandparents, schools and communities. 

Your Club will receive:

  • Opportunity to have a Guest Speaker at an online meeting to answer questions and inform your Members about SAFE Families initiative;
  • Ability for your Club to have any promotional articles, feedback, events re. family violence posted in "Latest News" on website or our Monthly Newsletter (send details to info@rotarysafefamilies.org.au);
  • Regular updates via the Rotary SAFE Families website, Facebook page and LinkedIn site.

Rotary SAFE Families is non-gender based and benefits Females, Males, Children, Youth, our Elderly including our many diverse communities, by you having the ability to identify signs of abuse, be fully informed and able to refer victims or possible victims of abuse to appropriate support agencies in your State.

The SAFE Families films, materials are all freely available online and Clubs and community organisations can take advantage of these resources, take ownership and endorsement, place your Club or organisation's logo beside SAFE Families:

  • View the four films found in "Resources" on website: Domestic Violence and its Impact on Children, Elder Abuse, Child Abuse and Abuse of Males; Download the Discussion Notes under each film and create a open forum/discussion after viewing the film;
  • Have a public awareness campaign, a fundraiser and show the films to communities, show the film Elder Abuse during Seniors Week;
  • Provide flyers, wallet cards, printed Guides to the public at your community marketplace, Rotary events.
  • Download and print out the translated Guide to Prevention of Family Abuse in Australia (translated from English to Dari, Farsi, Swahili, Greek, Mandarin, Somali, Arabic and Hindi). Give to your local diverse community hub or community centres to assist our non-English speaking communities.
  • Find ways to engage with young people by reading our "Do We Understand Our Young People?"
  • Provide printed information, wallet cards (using the example on website under Tab "Resources");
  • Have a pull-up banner made with Rotary SAFE Families and your club logo.  Ask Dorothy for designs.
  • Give your GP's, Chemists, Community Centres, places where people meet - printed flyers with your Club logo, and Rotary's prevention and referral methods of abuse;
  • Inform friends, colleagues, family, workplace of prevention and referral methods around abuse whilst helping to reduce stigma attached to this “taboo” topic and reporting of abuse
  • Talk to your colleagues in corporate, government and non-government organisations
  • Share stories with media and broader community
  • Acknowledge necessity for change: “No Excuse for Abuse”
  • Take pride in being an ambassador by Stopping Abuse in Families Everywhere!

Promote your Club as SAFE = Stopping Abuse in Families Everywhere Club

Remember:  Abuse Prevention Begins with YOU and ME!


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