CALD violence against women project

This community consultation project aims to improve understanding of risk and protective factors for intimate partner violence in culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities, and effective interventions for primary and secondary prevention.

It will have a particular focus on families from refugee backgrounds. The consultation will involve refugee women, refugee men and service providers. It will be led by the Victorian Immigrant Women’s Domestic Violence Service in partnership with academics with expertise in refugee health, intimate partner violence and masculinity.
The consultation process will:

• engage CALD women in identifying appropriate responses to intimate partner violence
• strengthen academic and community sector partnerships in the family violence and CALD sectors
• provide information for the development of a large national study concerned with refugee communities and intimate partner violence