Today White Ribbon Australia launches our youth roundtable. After a month-long screening process, sixteen young people aged between 14 – 17 years of age will convene today for the first time as our first youth roundtable to discuss ways in which more young men might be encouraged, assisted, and committed to taking daily action to end men’s violence against women.
To end men’s violence against women we need young men to intervene in and advocate for women’s safety. White Ribbon Australia launches our youth roundtable, after a month-long screening process, sixteen young people aged between 14 – 17 years of age will join our 2023 youth roundtable. Our aim is to discuss ways in which more young men might be encouraged, assisted, and committed to taking daily action to end men’s violence against women.
There are 16 young people on the White Ribbon Australia youth roundtable including:
| WA | Evan (he/him) Mason (he/him) Sebastian (he/him) |
| SA | Rhys (he/him) Owen (he/him) Hugh (he/him) Caleb (he/him) Jesse (he/him) Sunny (she/her) |
| NSW | Anneliese (she/her) Aleena (she/her) Annabel (she/her) |
| ACT | Nancy (she/her) |
| VIC | Sebastian (he/him) |
| QLD | Arran (he/him) Tom (he/him) |
They will advise White Ribbon Australia on the most effective methods to engage young men all over the country, and they will contribute to the development of materials on respectful relationships, healthy notions of masculinity, and youth toolkits that will supplement our existing barbershop materials.
Allan Ball, national director of White Ribbon Australia, said, “It is great to see so many young people willing to devote their time to ending men’s violence against women, and Australia should genuinely know that there is a strong desire in our Australian young people to stop violence in a generation.”
Some members of the youth roundtable have participated in White Ribbon Australia’s youth engagement program “You Can Ask That” which is part of White Ribbon Australia’s new youth focused primary prevention programming. Mr Alex Conway Primary Prevention Partner said “our youth engagement programs are helping to connect young men to tools, resources and education that they can use to support themselves and their friends”
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