For several months, the members of the Dubbo Violence Prevention Collective have been working to bring together sector policy makers, leaders, experts and frontline providers of services to collaborate and learn from each other.
The theme, content and presenters of the conference have never been more important for the sector and communities in the Central West and recent tragic events and national conversations will feature at the event.
Keynote speaker was Dr Hannah Tonkin, inaugural Women’s Safety Commissioner who provides leadership and oversight across the whole of government in NSW to strengthen responses to gendered violence.
Supporting Dr Tonkin were leaders from NSW Police, Women’s Domestic Violence Court Advocacy Services, NSW Community Corrections and victim survivors covering Government and sector responses to address violence in NSW, ADVOs, Safety Action Meetings and Domestic Violence Electronic Monitoring.
The DVPC, a collection of domestic violence services in Dubbo, wants to increase the awareness of domestic violence and encourage the entire community to be involved in identifying it and bringing it to an end.
The event this year was held in the Savannah Room at the Taronga Western Plains Zoo.
