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This workshop is designed to provide South West Local Governments with the data, support, and tools necessary to develop Public Health Plans.
Family and Domestic Violence is estimated to affect 1 in 4 women and 1 in 8 men in Australia. Education and training are essential to prevent family and domestic violence. Join Injury Matters on the 6th of May, 9:00am- 4:00pm, with guest facilitator Kate Jeffries from Stopping Family Violence, for this full-day workshop.
Mechanical force-related injuries occur due to direct contact with an inanimate object such as machinery, tools, and sports equipment, or from animate forces such as bites, person-to-person contact, and stings. In 2021-22, contact with objects was the second most common cause of hospitalised injuries in Australia, highlighting the importance of effective prevention strategies.
Join Injury Matters and guest presenters from Kidsafe and SafeFarms for the “Direct Impacts: Mechanical Force Related Injuries” webinar.
Cost: FREE
Join Injury Matters for the Injury Prevention Summit and explore 'The Future of Injury Prevention'.
WA has the largest proportion of residents born outside of Australia, where 38% of Western Australians were born overseas. That is why it is essential to develop inclusive injury prevention strategies that build trust and engage the community.
Join Injury Matters on 18 June 2025 from 10:00am-11:00am (AWST), with guest speaker Henrietta Podgorska from Umbrella Multicultural Community Care Services, for the “Building Trust and Engaging Multicultural Communities in Injury Prevention Programs and Services” webinar.
Healthy Streets is an evidence-based approach to designing and managing streets that support health, sustainability, fairness and community wellbeing. Poorly designed streets and built environments can increase the risk of many types of injury, including falls, transport injuries, violence and alcohol- related injuries. Join Injury Matters and Lucy Saunders from Healthy Streets on Thursday, 28 August, for the "Creating Safer Communities: A Healthy Streets Approach to Preventing Injury" workshop.
Cost: $25
Engaging with stakeholders is essential for ensuring injury prevention and community safety organisations and programs deliver the most relevant and impactful information to their target audience. This workshop will provide tools, techniques and insights to help you identify, map, prioritise, and engage stakeholders in the injury prevention space.
Alcohol is Australia’s leading injury risk factor, responsible for 14% of the total burden in 2024. Join Injury Matters, where we will discuss the link between alcohol and injury, best practice and harm minimisation and key initiatives driving alcohol harm reduction
