Acknowledging our partners and stakeholders

In addition to the work that WHISE leads, our team are proud to represent our organisation, our mission and the needs of women in our region in the various committees and advisory groups across our region. This is key to advancing our mission, delivering health promotion messages and supporting strong partnerships.

  • Bayside Integrated Community Safety Committee
  • Bayside Peninsula Integrated Family Violence Partnership
  • Beachside Wellbeing Network
  • Cardinia Shire Council - Together We Can
  • Cardinia Shire Youth Network
  • Chisholm TAFE PVAW Working Group
  • City of Casey Community Safety Meeting
  • City of Casey Relief and Recovery Network
  • City of Greater Dandenong Community Safety Advisory Committee
  • City of Greater Dandenong Preventing Family Violence Committee
  • City of Greater Dandenong Youth Network
  • City of Port Phillip Multicultural Advisory Committee
  • Community Health - Health Promotion Network and Advisory Group
  • Frankston Youth Network
  • Frankston Family Violence Steering Committee
  • Gender Equality Training Sub Committee
  • Glen Eira Community Safety Committee
  • Greater South East Melbourne (GSEM)
  • Greater Dandenong Youth Network
  • Inner South Multicultural Issues Network
  • International Students Sexual Health Network
  • Kingston Family Violence Working Group
  • Kingston Mental Health Working Group
  • MAV Preventing Violence Against Women Network
  • Mornington Peninsula Frankston Family Violence Primary Prevention Collaborative
  • Mornington Peninsula Shire Health and Wellbeing Committee
  • Mornington Peninsula Youth Services Network
  • Multicultural Advisory Committee
  • RMIT VE Industry Advisory Committee Assoc Degree Health Sciences
  • Respect Victoria’s Monitoring and Evaluation Advisory Group
  • Respect Victoria’s Prevention Alliance
  • Safe and Equal's Primary Prevention Advisory Committee
  • Safe and Equal 16 Days Partner Advisory Group
  • Safe and Equal’s Family Violence Comms and Media Network
  • Southern East Suicide Prevention Network
  • Southern Melbourne Family Violence Regional Integration Committee
  • SPHERE - NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Sexual and Reproductive Health for Women in Primary Care
  • WASEMA Family Violence Advisory Committee
  • Weight Inclusive Alliance Network
  • Women's Health Services Network
  • Women's Health Services Quality and Compliance Committee
  • Women’s Mental Health Alliance
  • Yarra Ranges Mental Health Network

WHISE staff are members of the following Communities of Practice and Working Groups:

  • Women’s Health Services Network Communications CoP
  • Women’s Health Services Network Community of Practice for Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Women’s Health Services Network Community of Practice for Prevention of Violence against Women
  • Women’s Health Services Network Quality CoP
  • Statewide Disability Inclusion Community of Practice
  • Our Watch Men in Focus Community of Practice
  • Sexual and Reproductive Health Social Media Working Group
  • Women’s Health Services Evaluation Working Group
  • Framing Age Community of Practice

Working with our partners

WHISE has established numerous partnerships and engaged in activities that solidify its role as a leader in primary prevention. Highlights include:

 

Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP):

Engagement and Development: WHISE commenced work to develop its first Reconciliation Action Plan. Staff reflected on the ways that we can work with First Nations people and our role in reconciliation and learning from Bunurong peoples. WHISE has initiated steps to engage with the Bunurong Land Council and other stakeholders to further reconciliation efforts.

Community Partnerships Team Activities:

Capacity Building and Support: Conducted "Welcome Back" sessions for Burmese women, implemented the "My Body My Voice" survey on body image and disabilities, and delivered health education workshops to newly arrived women in partnership with Friends of Refugees.

Gender and Disaster Training:

Training Delivery: Signed an MOU with Gender and Disaster Australia to deliver the “Lessons in Disaster” training package. Received requests to deliver training to partners, particularly those in peri-urban areas at risk of experiencing gendered impacts of disasters.