Respectful Relationships News
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/Services
MY Pride
MY Pride is an LGBTQIA+ social group for young people ages 12-18 who live, work, or play in the Manningham area. The group meets fortnightly and is facilitated by a member of the LGBTQIA+ community who identifies as non-binary and queer. For more information please contact us at ManninghamYouthServices@each.com.au. To register, please visit https://forms.office.com/r/FDueCCyucN.
MYS- Individual Support
Manningham Youth Services offers free and confidential individual support to young people aged 12-25 years who live, work, study or have a connection to Manningham. To refer yourself or a young person, please fill out our registration form https://forms.office.com/r/urzE3m7zSt or email ManninghamYouthServicesIntake@each.com.au
City Life EPIC Youth- events every Friday night!
FREE events for young people every Friday night during the school term at Lower Templestowe Community Centre from 7pm-9.30pm. Anyone and everyone welcome!
Whitehorse Manningham Libraries
Free Online Tutoring
Students from Grade 3 to Postgrad can use their library card to sign up for free, one-on-one online tutoring with qualified subject experts. Tutors can help with homework problems and new concepts and provide constructive feedback on assignments (24-hour turnaround). Click here for more info and to sign up!
LGBTQIA+ Events
IDAHOBIT Day - Tuesday 17 May 2022
What is it?
31 years ago - on May 17, 1990 - the World Health Organization removed homosexuality from the Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems.
International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia & Transphobia (IDAHOBIT) celebrates LGBTQIA+ people globally, and raises awareness for the work still needed to combat discrimination.
Australian statistics
- 75% of LGBTQIA+ youth experience some form of discrimination. (1)
- 77% of Trans and Gender Diverse people report being discriminated against in the past 12 months (2).
- 35% of LGBTQIA+ Australians have experienced verbal abuse in the past 12 months (2).
- 39% of LGBTQIA+ people have experienced depression in the past 12 months. (2)
- 33% of LGBTQIA+ people have experienced anxiety in the past 12 months. (2) Compared to 6.2% of the general population having experienced depression in the past 12 months. (3)
- Writing Themselves in 3
- Private Lives 3
- Beyond Blue
LGBTQIA+ Discrimination
Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia, and Transphobia can occur online, face to face and affect everyone by creating spaces where people feel unsafe and like they can't be themselves. Sexuality and gender identity or intersex status aren't always visible, so creating a culture where everyone feels safe, even if there aren't any visible LGBTI people is even more important.
Look out on the Compass Newsfeed for details of East Doncaster Secondary College IDAHOBIT Day events.
More than a Day – IDAHOBIT Youth Panel
It's time to celebrate queer excellence!
‘More than a day: IDAHOBIT Youth Panel’ is the very first event organised and created by the Minus18 Young Leaders.
Every year on May 17, we celebrate IDAHOBIT, the International Day Against LGBTQIA+ Discrimination. It's a chance for the whole community to build LGBTQIA+ inclusion.
It's a day all about celebrating and cultivating allyship, but let's be real: exploring questions about your identity can be exhausting, especially if you're a young person. So the Minus18 Young Leaders have decided to do the question-asking!
Join the Young Leaders and our panel as we explore what it means to be queer, and celebrate the everyday excellence of the queer community outside of sexual and gender identity.
This will be a low-touch, socially-distanced IN-PERSON event at the Victorian Pride Centre for young people (aged 12 to 19) to attend. It'll also be streamed online, for anyone to tune into, no matter their age or location.
For more information and bookings please go to https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/more-than-a-day-idahobit-youth-panel-tickets-328626780547
Manningham Council Events
Re:SPECT - Art therapy
A 6 week creative art therapy group for women recovering from family violence.
The Women’s Re:SPECT program utilises the visual arts, journaling and mindfulness for self-expression to explore themes relating to emotions, values and identity.
Date: Tuesdays. May 10th - June 14th, 2022
Venue: Doncare, Suite 4, Level 1, 687 Doncaster Road, Doncaster 3108
Contact: Sonia
Phone: 03 9856 1500
Email: sonia.tomasiello@doncare.org.au
Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm
Cost: Participation is free. Bookings essential
Visit https://doncare.org.au/news/respect-t2-2022 for more information.
Confident and connected
This group is for teenage girls, non-binary and gender diverse people to connect with others and develop confidence communicating their feelings and needs.
Participants will be supported to explore:
- experience of emotions in the body
- responses to conflict, including fight, flight and freeze responses
- communication of feelings and needs
- strengths and developing self-confidence
- needs for connection
This group is facilitated by skilled counsellors with the use of creative methods within an inclusive, strengths-based and trauma-informed approach.
Participants are required to participate in all 4 sessions. The maximum number of participants is 8.
Please note: this group is not suitable for those who are experiencing mental health issues that require more specialised professional support.
Date: 11/05/22, 18/05/22, 25/05/22, 1/06/22
Venue: Doncare, Suite 4, Level 1, 687 Doncaster Road, Doncaster 3108
Contact: Mo Borghetto
Phone: 03 9856 1500
Email: counselling4@doncare.org.au
Time: 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Cost: Fee of $40 for all four sessions, reduced fee of $20 for those with concession or health care card.
Go to https://doncare.org.au/news/confident-t2-2022 for more information.
RRRR Book of the Week
The Year the Maps Changed by Danielle Binks
One extraordinary year will change them all...
Sorrento, Victoria, 1999. Fred's family is a mess. Her mother died when she was six and she's been raised by her Pop and adoptive father, Luca, ever since. But now Pop's had to go away, and Luca's girlfriend Anika and her son have moved in. More and more it feels like a land-grab for family and Fred is the one being left off the map.
Even as things feel like they're spinning out of control for Fred, a crisis from the other side of the world comes crashing in. When a group of Kosovar-Albanian refugees are brought to a government 'safe haven' not far from Sorrento, their fate becomes intertwined with the lives of Fred and her family in ways that no one could have expected.
A middle-grade coming-of-age story inspired by true events about the bonds of family, the weight of grief and the power of compassion for fans of The Bone Sparrow, Wolf Hollow and The Thing About Jellyfish.
About the Author
Danielle Binks is a Melbourne-based writer, reviewer, agent, book blogger and Youth Literature Advocate. In 2017, she edited and contributed to Begin, End, Begin, an anthology of new Australian young adult writing inspired by the #LoveOzYA movement, which won the ABIA Book of the Year for Older Children (Ages 13+) and was shortlisted in the 2018 Gold Inky Awards. The Year the Maps Changed is Danielle's debut middle-grade novel.
Rebecca James
Respectful Relationships Coordinator