Kit to prevent domestic violence in rural Australia
Social service providers in rural Australia are being urged to contribute to an information booklet designed to prevent domestic violence.
The project aims to list successful family violence prevention programs around the country.
It's being coordinated by the National Women's Rural Coalition, the Australian Women Against Violence Alliance and the Queensland Centre for Domestic and Family Violence Research.
The booklet is expected to be launched in Broken Hill in June.
The Acting Coordinator of the Broken Hill Family Violence Prevention Legal Centre, Mariette Curcuruto, said all service providers are encouraged to contribute.
She said domestic violence affects all aspects of rural life.
"Not only does it impact on them on being hurt or harmed," she said.
"It also impacts upon the health system, because it costs a lot of money, it impacts on general business because people taking time off as the result of the effects of that violence, it impacts on schooling, because again we see the impacts of domestic violence on children's education and behavioural issues."
Ms Curcuruto said programs in schools are an important part of the toolkit.
But she says there are many ways to prevent family violence.
"Things you wouldn't expect, so things like things like economic training for women to make women more independent and economically safe, so issues of domestic violence don't impact on them because of financial pressure."