Reporting Guidelines for Journalists is a quick reference guide on protocol, quick contacts and statistics on reporting on violence against women. Click on the link above to access this PDF guide.
FAQs on Violence Against Women addresses common questions and misconceptions about violence against women, including easy to read statements and statistics and can be used as a quick reference when reporting on violence against women. Click on the link above to access.
Family Violence in the News: A Media Toolkit, 2nd Edition provides guidance about reporting, current information about family violence statistics, resources and details for media comment by family violence experts and is available online at http://www.cafs.org.au/about-cafs/publications .
Current Victorian Police Statistics on family violence incidents show family violence incident reports (rate per 100,000 population) by region and local government areas from 2006/07 to 2010/11. Click on the above link to access.
Current VicHealth research - National Survey on Community Attitudes to Violence Against Women 2009 details research on community understanding and attitudes towards issues of violence against women, including family violence and sexuall assault. Download the Summary of Findings for all information.
Crisis Support
Those experiencing family violence in Victoria can get help by contacting the following:
Women’s Domestic Violence Crisis Service: 1800 015 188
Men’s Referral Service: 1800 065 973
A list of Family Violence services for all Australian states can be found at www.dvrcv.org.au/ServicesHub/ServicesIndex.htm
A list of Family Violence services for Victoria can be found at www.dvrcv.org.au/support-services/victorian-services/
Domestic Violence Resource Centre Victoria (DVRCV) is a resource service offering a telephone service, online information for those experiencing family violence, training courses for support professionals, a specialist library, newsletter, and various publications. For further resources and information about family violence visit www.dvrcv.org.au.
Centres Against Sexual Assault (CASAs) are a group of services that variously offer counselling and advocacy, crisis care, information and groups. The peak body, CASA Forum, works towards ‘the elimination of sexual violence through community and professional education, informing government policy, advocating for law reform and facilitating research to increase community understanding of the nature and incidence of sexual assault’*. For further resources and information about sexual assault visit www.casa.org.au.
