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.

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.

16 Days of Activism Against Gender – Based Violence

16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence is an international campaign to end gender-based violence and promote gender equity. This global campaign takes place each year from 25 November (International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women) to 10 December (International Human Rights Day).

The campaign raises awareness about the impacts violence against women have on their physical, psychological, social, sexual, financial and spiritual well-being.

While family violence is experienced by both men and women and people of all backgrounds, cultures and abilities, it’s clear men and women do not assault each other at equal rates or with equal effect. Around 95 per cent of violence, whether women or men, experience violence from a male perpetrator. Experiences of violence are also gendered, with men subjected to violence mostly from men in public space, and intimate partner violence happens more often to females from men they know in their own home. Women are also far more likely than men to experience sexual violence and violence from an intimate partner, and with more severe impacts.

Regardless of gender, violence against anyone is unacceptable. As a community, we must address the underlying cause of violence against women – gender inequality.

If you would like to know more – you can visit the following websites:

https://www.respectvictoria.vic.gov.au/news/join-us-2022-16-days-activism-against-gender-based-violence

https://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/ending-violence-against-women/unite/16-days-of-activism

Walk Against Family Violence

The 2022 Walk Against Family Violence (WAFV) will take place across Victoria on Friday 25 November. For the first time since 2019, the WAFV2022 will be an in – person event and will begin at Parliament House at 11.30am and conclude at Carlton Gardens.

Step out in orange and unite with thousands of people across Victoria to raise awareness and walk in solidarity with victim-survivors of domestic and family violence and violence against women, at the 14th Annual Walk Against Family Violence.

The walk takes place on the United Nation’s Annual International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and marks the beginning of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence – an international campaign galvanising action to end violence against women and girls around the world.

Together, we can prevent domestic and family violence and violence against women. You can show your support for victim-survivors and help send a message across Victoria that domestic and family violence and violence against women is never okay by organising a walk, wearing orange, and sharing a video or photo from your walk using the hashtag

#WAFV2022, #WhyWeWalk and #WAFV

hashtags on social media.

To register for the walk or to find out more please go to the following website.

https://walk.safesteps.org.au/

Manningham Council Events

Submit your self-portrait for a new art project

Manningham residents are invited to submit a self-portrait for a new art project by artist Gosia Wlodarczak.

Submit from 3 November to 1 December via post boxes at MC Square and Manningham libraries. Gosia will use the portraits to create a large drawing installation called A Space of Facial Deconstruction.

Visit the Manningham Art Gallery over five days (between 11.00am to 5.00pm from 29 November to 3 December) to watch Gosia create the art in real time. Each day she will select portraits and create impressions of them onto the walls of the Gallery. This will result in a stunning portrait of the Manningham community.

The installation will be on display at the Gallery until 17 December.

Find a self-portrait station and post-box at the below locations:

MC Square Foyer

687 Doncaster Road, Doncaster, VIC, 3108

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Bulleen Library

Bulleen Plaza Manningham Road, Bulleen, VIC, 3105

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The Pines Library

Cnr Reynolds & Blackburn Roads, Doncaster East, VIC, 3109

Warrandyte Library

Warrandyte Community Centre, 168 Yarra Street, Warrandyte, VIC, 3113

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Experience the drawing performance

Where: Manningham Art Gallery, 687 Doncaster Road, Doncaster, VIC, 3108

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When: Tuesday 29 November to Saturday 3 December 2022, 11.00am to 5.00pm

About the artist

Born in Poland, and living in Melbourne, Gosia Wlodarczak interprets her immediate surroundings through the language of drawing. Wlodarczak’s practice is cross-disciplinary, extending towards performance, interactive situations, installation, sound, photo and moving-collage; she refers to it as trans-disciplinary drawing. Her works form rich linear tapestries that archive the artist’s fleeting perceptions. Tracing and re-tracing, she historicises the immediate moment through a pentimenti of mark-marking.

Her work is represented in collections including:

National Gallery of Australia
National Gallery of Victoria
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery of South Australia
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art
Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art
Artbank
Deakin University
Edith Cowan University
Murdoch University
Poznan Academy of Fine Arts
Western Washington University.

Inclusive Connections Expo – Friday 2nd December 12 – 4pm

Are you a person with disability? Are you on the NDIS or not on the NDIS? Perhaps you're a carer, friend, family member, or just interested in disability inclusion?

Do you want to know more about local opportunities for people with disability and how to remove barriers to inclusion?

The expo includes:

Support services
Social inclusion
Arts
Sport
Recreation
Housing
Education
Employment

Celebrating International Day of People with Disability, come along to Inclusive Connections.

For more information and to book go to:

https://www.manningham.vic.gov.au/events/inclusive-connections-expo-event

Term 4 Diversity and RRRR Calendar dates:

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

3/12 – International Day for People with Disabilities

10/12 – International Human Rights Day

RRRR Book of the Week

I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Sehee

THE PHENOMENAL KOREAN BESTSELLER AS RECOMMENDED BY BTS

TRANSLATED BY INTERNATIONAL BOOKER SHORTLISTEE ANTON HUR

'Will strike a chord with anyone who feels that their public life is at odds with how they really feel inside.'

RedPSYCHIATRIST- So how can I help you?

ME- I don't know, I'm what's the word depressed? Do I have to go into detail?

Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her what to call it? depression? She feels persistently low, anxious, endlessly self-doubting, but also highly judgmental of others. She hides her feelings well at work and with friends; adept at performing the calmness, even ease, her lifestyle demands. The effort is exhausting, overwhelming, and keeps her from forming deep relationships. This can't be normal.But if she's so hopeless, why can she always summon a desire for her favourite street food, the hot, spicy rice cake, tteokbokki? Is this just what life is like?

Recording her dialogues with her psychiatrist over a 12-week period, Baek begins to disentangle the feedback loops, knee-jerk reactions and harmful behaviours that keep her locked in a cycle of self-abuse. Part memoir, part self-help book, I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki is a book to keep close and to reach for in times of darkness.

Rebecca James

Respectful Relationships Coordinator

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Careers News 18 November 2022