“Tonight, we want you to walk out of this women’s self-defence class, feeling empowered, having tapped into your fighting spirit,” Ron Amram, Co-Director of Combat Arts Institute of Australia (CAIA) said as he begun the class with seven women at the dojo in Leederville on Tuesday night.
Learning Respect at Sevenoaks
On Tuesday 11 June, Stopping Family Violence partnered with the Women’s Council for Domestic and Family Violence Services, Relationships Australia and Palmerston drug and alcohol service to deliver a presentation about family and domestic violence (FDV) and respectful relationships at Sevenoaks Senior College in Cannington to 23 students in years...
We Are Safer Together
“There’s a commonly held idea that children are not affected by domestic violence if they are not in the room when it happened. However, that is a misconception; we now know the evidence is clear that children are impacted and can be severely traumatised. Children experience the yelling, the hitting,...
As the candles are burning, we will remember them – National Day of Remembrance
The month of May marks Domestic Violence Prevention Month and together with the Women’s Council for Family and Domestic Violence, Yorgum Aboriginal Corporation and the Lucy Saw Centre Association Inc, we came together as the darkness enveloped the day, on May 1, the National Day of Remembrance, and lit candles...