Workshop to support healthy relationships

Central Coast Council will run a Supporting Healthy Relationships workshop at Peninsula Theatre on November 27.

Council's director connected communities Ms Julie Vaughan said the workshop had been designed to provide the community with the tools needed to create better family relationships.

It would be part of a wider series of workshops taking place around the Coast to help bring awareness to the issue of domestic and family violence, she said.

"Domestic and family violence is a major health and welfare issue with current statistics showing that the Central Coast has some of the highest rates of domestic family violence in NSW.

"It occurs within all age ranges, ethnic backgrounds and economic levels and can have lifelong impacts for victims, perpetrators and their families," Ms Vaughan said.

Presented by Catholic Care's violence prevention educator Ms Danielle Habib, the free workshops will help attendees understand domestic family violence and healthy relationships and learn safe actions and responses to it.

Mayor Cr Lisa Matthews said Central Coast residents, government and non-government agencies had taken up the call to end domestic and family violence in the region.

"We have a community responsibility to do more in condemning violent behaviour and are leading the way in instigating change in our region," Cr Matthews said.

"We want to create a community where everyone feels valued, respected and safe.

"I encourage anyone who wants to know how to support a friend or family member, or learn more about creating healthy family relationships, to come along to one of our workshops," she said.

SOURCE:

Media release, 20 Nov 2019

Lisa Matthews, Central Coast Council