Violence Prevention Alliance Launch
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Top level
Community Health
Services
Women's Health
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Author: Admin
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Publishing date: 14 November 2005 11:56am
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Murray Mallee Community Health Service is proud to have been accepted as a member of the Violence Prevention Alliance. We believe this is a first for Australia.
VPA is a global network for organizations working to prevent violence; it was officially formed in January 2004 at the WHO-hosted Milestones of a global campaign for violence prevention meeting. The Milestones meeting reviewed the progress made in the first year following the 2002 launch of WHO's World report on violence and health (WRVH) and its subsequent Global Campaign for Violence Prevention (GCVP), and looked to the future to plan activities to be undertaken as part of the GCVP.
As there is a strong correlation between violence and those who experience mental health issues it was decided to hold the launch of our acceptance during Mental Health Week in October.
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Regional Mental Health Manager Maurie Breust gave a presentation with Director Viv Hazel (MMCHS) giving the welcome and opening. Notes from Maurie’s presentation will be available through the Violence Prevention Project LINK.
Some the organizations that were represented at the launch were Swanport House Mental Health Rehabilitation program, Dept of Correctional Services, Victims of crime support Service, Liberal candidate for State Parliament, Minister (Religious Fellowship) Child & Family Services, Child and Youth Health, Private consultant, Drug and Alcohol, South Australia Housing Trust, Local Government, Consumers, Southern Domestic Violence Service, Domestic Violence Action Group, Women's Health Mt. Barker…others escaped being photographed including our Hills Mallee Southern Regional Manager, Kevin Eglinton!
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The Launch
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Here we are in our T-shirts L-R Kathy (Mental health,), Keith (mental Health), Viv (whom you know) Dallas (our trainer/consultant), Carla, (Women's Health, and t-shirt organizer) Rosemarie (Administration, violence kit organizer)Helen (mental Health) Janet (manager Health and wellbeing team which includes women's health, Aboriginal Health and mental Health) Ailene (manager Community Services team, including home helps, palliative care, community nursing and aged care) Maurie (Regional Manager Mental Health) Yvonne (women's Health) and me at the end (women's Health and Project worker). There are some members missing including Sarah, Speech Pathologist, Rose, Youth Worker, Beth Paramedical Aid.
This launch was part of a bigger project called the Violence Prevention Project:
RESPECT: We are the change we wish to see.Adapted from Gandhi
For more information about VPP click on the link below:
http://www.mbsmh.sa.gov.au/article/archive/135/
or you can access the World Health Organisation's violence prevention website by clicking the link below:
http://www.who.int/violenceprevention/about/en/
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