Preventing Violence Through Sport Grants Program – Case studies

The Preventing Violence Through Sport Grants Program provides funding for partnership projects that:

• build the capacity of community sport and recreation to address the gendered drivers of family violence, sexual violence and all forms of violence against women in their communities
• implement the Safe and Inclusive Sport: Preventing Gender-Based Violence Guide
• build networks and partnerships between community sport and recreation and primary prevention experts.

The following case studies demonstrate the successful application of the Safe and Inclusive Sport: Preventing Gender-Based Violence Guide and showcase what gender equity and primary prevention initiatives can look like in a sport setting.

Elevating Women and Girls in Umpiring

Western Football Netball League establishes a Women  and Girls Umpire Academy in Melbourne’s West as part of the Champions of the West project.

Champions of the West is a project led by GenWest which aims to prevent attitudes that support and condone gender-based violence from flourishing in professional and community sports clubs.

Layups to Leadership

Broadmeadows Basketball Club develops Gender Equity Action Plan as part of Crash the Boards project.

Crash the Boards is funded through the Victorian Government’s Preventing Violence Through Sport Grants Program and supports 8 basketball associations across Victoria to understand and embed gender equity in basketball.

Through consultation with the committee, coaches, staff, parents, players and members across its basketball community, Broadmeadows Basketball Association (BBA) identified opportunities to support gender equity across 5 key areas: policies, practices,  people, participation  and partnerships.

A New Playbook

Western Bulldogs Football Club players and staff participate in gender equity and masculinities training as part of the Champions of the West project.

Champions of the West is a project led by GenWest which supports sporting clubs and organisations in Melbourne’s West to address gender inequality and the drivers of gender- based violence.

Australian rules football is an industry over-represented by men, and football club leaders are hugely influential in club culture. When people can be themselves, unbound by rigid stereotypes of gender, they will perform better on and off the football field.