Join us for our annual 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence event, hosted by Adjunct Professor Katrina Nankervis, Executive Director of Nursing and Midwifery.

Anu Krishnan from Kulturbrille will delve into the impact of culture on identifying and responding to family violence. She will articulate strategies for moving towards a future where everyone’s perspective is culturally aligned, fostering a responsive, inclusive, and adaptable environment.

We will cover the following topics:

• What is culture?
• How people use and experience violence in diverse communities
• Intersect between mental health and family violence
• Elder abuse in diverse communities
• Power and control dynamics
• What does good practice look like?

Agenda

• Welcome – Adjunct Professor Katrina Nankervis, Executive Director of Nursing and Midwifery, Monash Health
• Presentation – Anu Krishnan. Founder & CEO, Kulturbrille
• Q&A – Led by Adjunct Professor Katrina Nankervis, Executive Director of Nursing and Midwifery, Monash Health

Questions via Slido

To ask a question during the event, log on to slido.com using your web browser or smartphone and enter the code #MH16DAYS2023

About Anu Krishnan

Anu has over 25+ years of working in senior roles across direct services, advocacy bodies, government and not-for-profit sectors and in private sector.

She has an endless passion to ensure we respond to human service challenges with insight and understanding – aware that each individual views the world with our unique lens, coloured by our experiences, culture and place in this world.

A large part of her work focuses on building deep understanding of the drivers of violence and ensuring that communities can respond and reduce violence.

For the last seven years she has focused on developing and delivering capacity building programs to increase culturally strong practice – including primary prevention, capacity building for services and culturally informed programs.

In 2019, Anu was recognised in VMC Multicultural Awards Program for her work in Primary Prevention.

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• Meeting ID: 441 018 409 279
• Passcode: BAEmJZ

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