Safety and Wellbeing
Primary prevention, while rewarding work, can sometimes be extremely challenging or demanding. It important that each member of your CAG understands the importance of self-care and recognising signs that you may need extra support. Included in this page are links that demonstrate the importance of self-care, as well as the importance of responding to disclosures in a supportive and helpful manner. Violence prevention initiatives raise awareness around issues of family and gender-based violence, and this often creates a safe environment that can make people feel more comfortable talking about their experiences of these forms of violence. It is essential that your CAG understands the most appropriate and supportive way to respond.
Vicarious Trauma and Burnout
Working within primary prevention can sometimes mean discussing or responding to complex and challenging situations. It is important for your CAG members to understand and be aware when they may be experiencing, or heading towards experiencing, vicarious trauma or burnout.
Responding to Disclosures
Violence prevention initiatives can often prompt disclosures of family violence or sexual assault. For this reason, it is important that people know how to respond when someone discloses their experiences of violence. This page covers how to provide a supportive and helpful response.
What to do When Someone Discloses Violence or Abuse
If someone has taken the difficult step of telling you their experience of violence or abuse, it is important you respond in a supportive and appropriate way. This factsheet is to help you best support people who have disclosed their experience of violence or abuse to you.
Justice doing in community work & therapy: from ‘burnout’ to solidarity
Providing alternatives to concepts of ‘burn out’ and/or ‘vicarious trauma’, Vikki conveys how our collective Justice Doing sustains us, nourishes our hope, invites us to honour the resistance and strength we witness in the people we work alongside.