Empowering local leaders: building gender-inclusive sport clubs

A community workshop focused on the powerful role sport can play in advancing gender equity.

Be a champion for change

Are you passionate about creating safe, welcoming and inclusive spaces for women, girls and gender‑diverse people in sport?

If you’re 18 years or older and involved in community sport as a parent or carer, coach, player, volunteer, committee member or administrator - this FREE workshop is for you.

Moonee Valley City Council, in partnership with cohealth, invites you to take part in a community workshop focused on the powerful role sport can play in advancing gender equity. Together, we’ll explore how local leaders can influence positive, lasting change within their clubs.

What you'll gain

Participants will:

• explore inclusive leadership approaches and learn how to engage and influence others, including strategies for responding to resistance
• collaborate with others to develop practical ideas for creating respectful and equitable sport clubs
• a free resource pack to help turn ideas into action.

Support information

Discussions about gender equity may touch on topics of family violence. If this affects you or someone you know, help and support are available and you are not alone.

If you are in immediate danger, always call triple-zero 000.

You can reach out to these key organisations for support:

The Orange Door is the free central service for adults, children and young people in Victoria who are experiencing or have experienced family violence, and families who need extra support with the care of children. Visit The Orange Door to find which of their locations across Victoria is closest to you or call 1800 271 045 to reach the Western Melbourne office (open 9am – 5pm Monday to Friday, excluding public holidays).

Safe Steps can be reached at any time of day or night for crisis support. They help people in Victoria who are experiencing or are at risk of experiencing family violence. Call 1800 015 188 to or you could try their live web chat service available 9am till midnight, Monday to Friday.

1800 Respect is a national 24/7 hotline operated by trained counsellors for any Australian who has experienced, or is at risk of, family and domestic violence and/or sexual assault. Call 1800 737 732.

For a full list of support services in Melbourne’s West, download the GenWest Family Violence Services Help Sheet and check out Council’s Family Violence Support and Resources webpage.