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Project O drives change in rural, regional and isolated communities affected by family violence

Project O is a primary prevention project. Through Project O, young women gain new skills and resilience, equipping them to drive attitudinal change in their community, challenge entrenched gender inequality and help prevent the normalisation of family violence.

Project O:

• backs rural young women experiencing disadvantage
• removes barriers arising from family violence
• invests in young women as change-makers
• delivers generational change

Through innovative mentoring workshops, Project O supports a generation of young women to be leaders – capable of driving change. Project O champions the individual aspirations of participants and fosters the personal agency required to achieve them.

Project O takes an asset-based, non-welfare approach, building on the strengths of communities, and backing the potential of the young women who live there.

Proven Track Record:

Trialed, tested and evaluated in a family violence hotspot on the North West Coast of Tasmania, Project O has proven its national scalability, rolling out in three additional sites (Roebourne WA, Cooma NSW, Canberra ACT) – creating a national movement of young women driving change around the entrenched issue of family violence.

“I had the pleasure of seeing the work of the remarkable young women from Big hART’s Project O, who are taking positive action in rural communities affected by family violence. I am thrilled to see that this primary prevention project is now going national and promoting generational change.”

Rosie Batty, 2015 Australian of the Year, Domestic Violence Campaigner.