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Anglicare has launched a new youth program aimed at preventing an all-too-common form of violence in Australia.
It’s an alarming stat that shocked Australians: 55 women died at the hands of their intimate partner last year. It means that on average, at least one woman dies each week as the result of domestic violence.
And, at least one in every four women, and one in 13 men, suffer abuse by an intimate partner.
Now, Anglicare has teamed up with Youthworks to tackle the problem.
Both Anglicare’s Community Services team and Anglicare’s youth initiative, Take Love, have joined forces with Youthworks to create the youth group program Before It Starts.
This article contains references to domestic violence.
Religious values can be misused to justify abuse, an advisor for Anglicare Sydney has told a state parliamentary inquiry into coercive control.
Ms Lynda Dunstan, Family and Domestic Violence Advisor of Anglicare Sydney, appeared at the third day of the NSW Parliament s Committee on Wednesday as part of an inquiry into whether coercive control should be made a criminal offence.
Ms Dunstan said Anglicare, a not-for-profit organisation of the Anglican Church, supports criminalisation as a way of recognising this insidious pattern of behaviours and the devastating impact it has on its victims .
She noted the specific challenges and impacts for predominantly women from different religious and cultural backgrounds.