Respectful Relationships Approaches

Primary prevention programs which focus on promoting respectful relationships and gender equality.
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Respectful relationships programs create generational change by breaking the cycle of family and domestic violence and stopping violence before it starts.

The Department of Communities currently supports three different respectful relationships approaches.

Please click on the tiles below for information on these approaches.

A female Aboriginal teacher working in primary school and looking at school children

Respectful Relationships Teaching Support Program

A primary prevention program which focuses on promoting respectful relationships and gender equality in WA public schools.
A group of young women doing Aussie Rules Football training on a grassed oval

Respectful Relationships Sport and Recreation Program

A primary prevention program which focuses on promoting respectful relationships and gender equality in sport and recreation clubs and organisations.
Female mining employee wearing high visibility vest, protective hard hat and holding clip board, smiling in front of a large mining truck

Respect in Mining

A primary prevention program which focuses on promoting respectful relationships and gender equality in the mining sector.

See also

Prevention of family and domestic violence

Family and Domestic Violence Reduction Strategy

Our Watch Respectful Relationships hub