Rotary Safe Families End of Year Report

ROTARY SAFE FAMILIES End of Year Report 2025

RSF Co-Chair Peter Berg is not well enough to continue co-chairing with me and is having to limit his work. Min Bell has proven a great asset and I greatly appreciate her support.

It has been an extraordinary past 12 months. Our team at Rotary SAFE Families is delighted to convey their achievements at this time of the 2025 end of year.

Two Global Mega Meetings with a following of 48 countries and wonderful Rotarians who support our campaign of prevention of family violence

Twenty eight workshops/presentations to CALD community organisations and Rotary Clubs. These workshops delivered the latest on:

Mental Health Literacy
Working with Diverse Communities Impacted by Family Violence
Do We Understand Our Young People?
Family Violence and How to Prevent
Child Abuse
Elder Abuse
General Rotary SAFE Families presentations to 28 Rotary Clubs/Probus Clubs/Community Support Organisations

Our thanks and appreciation go to our Patrons for their support and wisdom. Thank you Gordon McInally, Pat Merryweather-Arges and Grace Van Zyll.

We would like to thank the many Clubs and organisations, Victoria Police and places of worship (Gurdwara Blackburn - Sikh Temple) who lead the way in promoting Rotary SAFE Families prevention resources via their:

Conferences
Bunnings BBQ's
Meetings
Public Events
Websites and Bulletins

Rotary Club of Kippa-Ring North Lakes and Rotary Chadstone/East Malvern - just a couple of the many Clubs promoting prevention of family violence publicly.

Our Promo for 2025 can be viewed here

Thank you to all the fantastic organisations that have "joined" us as we continue to promote the importance in our world of stopping the traumatic and senseless family violence. The impact of abuse and violence on our children and grandchildren must be stopped. If we are going to leave a legacy in this world, it must be a legacy from us that we have fought to make our world "safe" from violence and that we have tried our very best for the sake of our children and grandchildren.

This year, via the innovative Ginny Giorgio, Rotary Kingscliff and a family law court lawyer, we have been given the outstanding Towards Respectful Relationships program. This program has been running in northern NSW secondary schools for 4 years and Rotary SAFE Families is rolling it out in Victoria early next year. Thank you Rotary Hawthorn for agreeing to sponsor this exciting and valuable program at Sophia Mundi Steiner School.

Thanks also to Rotary Brighton North for sponsoring the Montessori College, Brighton next year.

Please download Towards Respectful Relationships' information here: TRR_General_Information.pdf

Contact Dorothy Gilmour, Chair Rotary SAFE Families for more detailed information via our website: http://www.rotarysafefamilies.org.au/

We could never have achieved these results without the commitment, fellowship and support from our Rotary SAFE Families Leadership Team:

Peter Berg, Rotary Melbourne
Ronald Moss, Rotary Caroline Springs
Min Bell, Rotary Hawthorn
Ian Bentley, Rotary Hawthorn
Vincent Chen, Rotary Hawthorn
Shakilah Wesonga, Brotherhood of St Laurence
Kirsti Kee, Rotary Club of Hervey Bay
Mark Pinoli Rotary Hawthorn
Miranda Bain, Rotary Woodend
Karen Gornalle, Rotary Melbourne
Robert Taylor, Rotary Caroline Springs

Where Are We Going Next Year?

Two global Webinars "How to Prevent Family Violence in Your Country?"
Global Mega Meeting later in year
Rotary Wendouree Breakfast Club have asked to join RSF as an Ambassador Club.
Women’s Health in the South East (WHISE) have reached out and invited RSF to work with them in their prevention of family violence and protection of women and children.
Many workshops and presentations to Rotarians and Community Support Organisations
Towards Respectful Relationships program to Year 10 students at senior schools around Australia
Support to CALD communities
A new film: Rotary SAFE Families" Prevention of Violence
More support and sharing our work please.