Engender Equality

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Engender Equality is Tasmania’s leader in promoting gender equality and addressing family violence to benefit the whole community. They’ve been operating for over 30 years and work from offices in Hobart. Services are confidential and free.

What they do

Statewide counselling and support : Through trauma-informed and evidence-based therapeutic work they support safety and stabilisation, recovery and healing. The counselling program offers a range of supports over short to long-term engagements with qualified practitioners located around Tasmania. Includes the Shark Cage program (link to Shark Cage info)

LGBTIQA+ specialist service: Engender Equality offers a specialist counselling and support for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, people with a variation of sex characteristics (intersex), queer, asexual and other sexuality and gender diverse people. They recently created guidelines to help doctors respond to family violence affecting LGBTIQA+ people.

Training and education: They provide education and training to professionals and the community about family violence and gender equality, drawing on their 30+ years of experience.

Advocacy and policy work: They actively campaign for better laws and policies around family violence – for example, they successfully advocated for strangulation to become a stand-alone criminal offense in Tasmania.

Advocates for Change program: A volunteer program where victim survivors are trained and supported to advocate for powerful change using their lived experience and expertise, including public speaking, media interviews, and advisory work.

Primary Care support: They work with general practices across Tasmania to help them better identify and respond to family violence among their patients.

Resources freely available documents and videos can be viewed and downloaded from their website.

Clients who complete an intake with Engender will be offered a range of therapeutic services that are available to them depending on program availability and client circumstances. Services clients may be offered during an intake appointment are:

• Medium to long term FV counselling
• LGBTIQA+ Family Violence Service
• Brief Intervention FV counselling
• Group Programs
• FV Counselling at an outreach location

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