Background to the workshop program

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In 1996, WHISE was funded by the Department of Human Services, Taking Injury Prevention Forward campaign to raise awareness of the impact of violence on the health and wellbeing of young women, and to reduce the risk of injury associated with interpersonal violence. With this funding, project worker Meg Gulbin produced a training manual, which has since been used as the basis for ongoing anti-violence projects with young women.

In 1998, WHISE project worker Rebecca Meachem produced a revised edition of the manual titled Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself. The Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs gave funding for a project providing domestic violence education and training to peer educators, young women in secondary schools and young women accessing the Statewide Young Women's Project. At the same time, Tim O'Leary from SECASA produced a manual titled Respecting Ourselves, Respecting Others, funded by the Department of Human Services (DHS), to promote non-violent behaviours for young men in secondary school settings. An initial group of 22 young women and 10 young men of university age were trained to facilitate workshops in schools. Although not strictly a peer education model, as most of the presenters were above secondary school age, the philosophies of peer education were the basis for the training of the peer educators. The benefits of this model for the workshop program are discussed below.

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