Across the state, workshops are being run to address the rising rates of domestic and family violence.
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Women's Legal Service Tasmania is one of several organisations offering free workshops to the public to build community resilience and reduce violence against women.
Mentors in Violence Prevention is a joint initiative run by WLST, Engender Equality, Hobart Women's Shelter and Women's Health Tasmania aimed at unpacking the issues that contribute to family violence.
WLST chief executive Yvette Cehtel said the MVP workshops were about helping people in the community building confidence and capacity to better respond when they see violence against women.
It's about all of us in the community accepting responsibility for family violence and equipping all of us to be able to better intervene when we see it.
- Yvette Cehtel
"It's about giving people some positive examples of what a bystander looks like and how to intervene in a range of different circumstances through some practice," she said.
Ms Cehtel said the feedback from the workshops so far had been positive.
"All the feedback has been really positive around the exercises, people really love them," she said.
"We do a gender exercise about unpacking how gender drives family violence, how stereotypes about how people are expected to respond can drive that, and drive inequality. We get a lot of great feedback about that as an exercise."
"It's not about identifying men as perpetrators and women as victims," she said.
"It's about all of us in the community accepting responsibility for family violence and equipping all of us to be able to better intervene when we see it."
Ms Cehtel said her caseload had increased by 50 percent in recent months, and hoped the workshops would provide participants with a strategy to identify and call out abusive behaviour when they see it.
The next workshop will be held at the Scottsdale Library, August 12. To register click here.
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