Are You Safe at Home? Day

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10 May is Are You Safe at Home? Day. It’s an opportunity to ask someone in your life, ‘are you safe at home?’ This year, start a conversation to end family violence. 

How to get involved in Are You Safe at Home? Day 2024

  • Raise awareness about the Are You Safe at Home? initiative
  • Share Are You Safe at Home? content through your organisation’s social media and other communication channels
  • Encourage your colleagues to share the content through their social media network
  • Print and display resources in your office or workplace
  • Learn about family violence and how to have safe conversations by completing our 20-minute eLearn
  • Open up the conversation with your friends, family or colleagues
  • Create space and opportunity for meaningful conversations that could support people in your workplace

Communications toolkit

Campaign resources

Posters

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Webinar

Learn more about Are You Safe at Home? Day 2024 and how you can get involved through our webinar, recorded on Wednesday 17 April 2024.

The focus of Are You Safe at Home? Day 2024 is on the crucial role we all play in recognising and responding to family violence in our communities. Whether you’re worried about someone you work with, or someone you know in your local community – we’re encouraging people to start the conversation.

Just by asking, listening and believing, you can have an enormous impact on someone’s journey to safety.

Ending family violence is everyone’s business – and you have a crucial role to play. This 10 May, start the conversation. 

Ask. Listen. Believe.  

Are You Safe at Home? Day Events

Stay tuned for Are You Safe At Home? Day 2025.

Are You Safe at Home? eLearn

Learn how to better support colleagues, friends, or family members who may be experiencing family violence.

Our short eLearn resource is for people in workplaces, and provides information about how to recognise and respond to family violence in the workplace. The eLearn will cover content including:

  • What family violence is
  • How to recognise the signs that someone in your life may be experiencing family violence, including in the workplace
  • How people can have safe and respectful conversations about family violence with anyone in their lives, including colleagues
  • How to access support

Enrol in our self-paced eLearn on how to have safe and respectful conversations about family violence.

Are You Safe at Home? Day Webinar

On 10 May 2023 - Are You Safe at Home? Day - we hosted conversations exploring the important role colleagues and workplaces play in recognising and responding to family violence.

This webinar series was presented in partnership with Domestic Violence NSW, Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing, NTCOSS, and Embolden Alliance.

Safe and Equal’s Emma Morgan (Strategic Projects and Engagement Manager) and Rebeca Carro (Lived Experience Program Officer) explored what family violence is, who it impacts, what the signs are, and how to have safe and respectful conversations with colleagues about family violence.

Watch the recording of our webinar with DVNSW below.