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Ideas for events and activities
Here are some ideas to start you thinking about activities or events for Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Month.
- Approach local sporting clubs to be part of DFVPM activities. This might mean displaying DFVPM posters or organising a sporting activity to promote the month. These clubs might also assist in sponsorship of an event or activity
- Organise a Fun Run. The proceeds could be used to fund your other DFVPM activities, as well as ongoing prevention activities
- Host a breakfast, morning tea, lunch or community picnic. You could organise a guest speaker to talk about domestic and family violence and its prevention
- Organise a forum for parents and provide information about talking to children about alternatives to violence
- Ask an Aboriginal Elder from your community to address a forum or to make a public statement about domestic and family violence
- Arrange for DFVPM messages to be displayed on billboards around your community or on banners across main streets and bridges
- Hold a sausage sizzle at your local hardware or shopping centre and invite a local identity or sportsperson to cook. Display a DFVPM poster or banner and other domestic and family violence information resources
- Contact your local newspaper and suggest they conduct a survey about domestic and family violence. A number of survey topics could be covered, including 'Have you ever felt verbally, physically or emotionally threatened by your partner?' A report could be published in the newspaper during DFVPM, along with information on where to go for help
- Approach local shopkeepers to display DFVPM posters in their windows
- Organise a 'fathers and sons day' with activities that promote non-violence
- Approach a local identity, such as the Mayor or a local sportsperson, to make a media statement about preventing domestic and family violence
- Suggest that your local radio station focus on domestic and family violence prevention during the month by playing anti-violence songs eg ‘How Come, How Long’ by Stevie Wonder and Baby Face, ‘Two Beds and a Coffee Machine’ by Savage Garden and ‘Better Man’ by Pearl Jam, or having a talk back discussion (there is a website which lists songs related to domestic and family violence: www.creativefolk.com/abusesongs.html)
- Arrange for a story about domestic and family violence to be published in your local newspaper and newsletters
- Organise mobile information sessions on domestic and family violence and take your message to places in your community where people gather
- Involve people in producing a special edition of your regular newsletter on DFVPM
- Make a wooden totem pole and have people decorate it with messages that promote healthy relationships
- Organise a training day for church leaders on domestic and family violence, using available resources
These are just a few examples of how a community can work together on a project that promotes messages of non-violence.
Last updated: 20 June 2008.
