Everyone in our community deserves to be respected, valued and treated equally. We know that changes in attitudes and behaviours can be achieved when positive attitudes, behaviours and equality are embedded in our education settings.

Respectful Relationships is about embedding a culture of respect and equality across our entire community, from our classrooms to staffrooms, sporting fields, fetes and social events. This approach leads to positive impacts on student’s academic outcomes, their mental health, classroom behaviour, and relationships between teachers and students.

Together, we can lead the way in saying yes to respect and equality, and creating genuine and lasting change so that every child has the opportunity to achieve their full potential.

The EDSC Respectful Relationships Pledge:

"All members of our school community have a responsibility to stand up against family violence and the misuse of gender power and control. We foster relationships that are respectful, caring and fair."

If you or anyone you know is experiencing domestic violence the following services are available

If you or someone you know is in immediate danger call 000 and ask for the police.

For non-urgent help, please contact:

• 1800RESPECT: The national sexual assault, domestic and family violence counselling service. Phone and online services available 24/7.

• Doncare: (03) 9856 1500

• Eastern Domestic Violence Service (EDVOS): (03) 9259 4200

• Safe Steps Family Violence Response Centre: 1800 015 188

• Thorne Harbour Health support for the LGBTIQA+ community: (03) 9865 6700

• Migrant Information Centre support for people from diverse cultural backgrounds: (03) 9285 4888

• inTouch Multicultural Centre Against Family Violence at (03) 9413 6500

• Men's Referral Service: 1300 766 491

• Eastern Community Legal Centre: 1300 325 200

More resources/agencies can be found on our Wellbeing, Engagement and Positive Futures page of the East Doncaster Secondary College website

https://www.eastdonsc.vic.edu.au/wellbeing-engagement-positive-futures

Manningham Youth Services/Events

headspace Hawthorn- Inner Peas and Body Project

Inner Peas:

headspace Hawthorn are running Inner Peas, 4-week social cooking program led by young people, for young people. The program aims to help you make easy, healthy and affordable recipes as well as connect with like-minded people and make new friends.

Who: Young people aged 16-25, all levels of cooking are welcome

When: Every Wednesday night from 16th November- 7th December

Time: 5:30pm-7:30pm

Cost: FREE!

Body Project:

Join Sara and Lucia from headspace Hawthorn for the Body Project! This is a FREE 4-week program for young people who want to improve their body image and self-esteem. You will learn strategies to feel comfortable and accepting of your body.

When: Tuesday afternoons 4:30-6:00pm, starting 15th November – 6th December

Who: Young people identifying as female, aged 16-25

Where: Boroondara Youth Hub – Level 1, 360 Burwood Road, Hawthorn

Cost: Free

Click here to register

Wonga Park Community Cottage- Twilight Youth Event

Wonga Park Community Cottage are looking for young people to showcase their creative and musical skills at their Twilight Youth Event! Young musicians, buskers, bands, magicians, poets, comedians, and visual art students aged 13-24 years old are invited to be involved in the event. The event itself will be a small outdoor/indoor event with food trucks and performances.

When: Friday 18th November, 2022

Time: 5:00pm - 8:00pm

Where: Wonga Park Community Cottage, 1/9-13 Old Yarra Rd, Wonga Park

Click on 'Express Your Interest' to access an application form.

For more info, click here.

Mullum Mullum Indigenous Gathering Place- Community Christmas Party

Join MMIGP to celebrate the festive season and the end of a long year!

When: Sunday 11th December

Time: 11am-3pm

Where: 47-49 Patterson Street, Ringwood East

Click here for more information and to register.

Doncare- You Matter

A creative art therapy group for teens aged between 13-18 years who are living with or have lived with family violence.

When: Every Monday from 7th November- 12th December

Time: 4:00pm - 6:00pm

Click here for more information and to register.

Manningham Uniting Church & Community Centre- Building Bridges through Story

The third follow-up to the Covid-shortened March 2022 Building Bridges Through Story will focus on First Nations Peoples’ stories, the Uluru Statement from the Heart and the campaign for a Constitutionally-enshrined Voice to Parliament.

When: Saturday 19th November

Time: 1:30pm-4:00pm

Where: 109 Wood St, Templestowe

Term 4 Diversity and RRRR Calendar dates:

11/11 – Remembrance Day

11/11 – Anniversary of the passing of the Aborigines Protection act (1869)

21/11 – Anniversary of the Long Walk to Canberra

25/11 – International 16 Days of Activism against Gender – Based Violence

3/12 – International Day for People with Disabilities10/12 – International Human Rights Day

RRRR Book of the Week

An innovative collection of poetry and prose from a vibrant new Indigenous voice on the Australian literary scene. Winner of the 2022 Stella Prize.

I told you this was a thirst so great it could carve rivers.

This fierce debut from award-winning writer Evelyn Araluen confronts the tropes and iconography of an unreconciled nation with biting satire and lyrical fury.

Dropbear interrogates the complexities of colonial and personal history with an alternately playful, tender and mournful intertextual voice, deftly navigating the responsibilities that gather from sovereign country, the spectres of memory and the debris of settler-coloniality.

This innovative mix of poetry and essay offers an eloquent witness to the entangled present, an uncompromising provocation of history, and an embattled but redemptive hope for a decolonial future.

Rebecca James

Respectful Relationships Coordinator

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