Stop technology enabled abuse.
But some people use technology to control others.
Coercive control is a pattern of abusive behaviour designed to create power and dominance over another person, often through intimidation, threats, isolation and control.
That kind of behaviour is never acceptable.
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About Stop Tech Abuse campaign
The eAware Project: Raising Awareness for Digital safety in Rural and Regional Victoria is led by Gippsland Women’s Health, the lead organisation for gender equality, women’s health, prevention of violence against women, and family violence system leadership in Gippsland, and seeks to keep women living in regional and rural Victoria safe from tech-based coercive control by raising community awareness.
In this project, the term ‘women’ is used to recognise the diverse range of individuals who identify as women. This definition encompasses cisgender women, transgender women, and those who are nonbinary or gender diverse and align themselves with the “female experience”.
Project Partners
The project is supported by the partnership between members of the regional Women’s Health Network:
Gippsland Women’s Health
Women’s Health Loddon Mallee
Women’s Health and Wellbeing Barwon South West
Women’s Health Goulburn North East
Women's Health in the South East
Women’s Health Grampians
We sincerely thank everyone who contributed to the project by sharing their stories, knowledge and insights, especially the Victorian regional and rural women with lived and living experience of tech-based coercive control, their support service providers, and their carers, friends, families and allies.
Gippsland Women’s Health would also like to thank Ellis Jones Consulting, First Person Consulting and Associate Professor Evita March for their valued contributions.
This project was funded through the eSafety Commissioner’s Preventing Tech-based Abuse of Women Grants Program – an Australian Government Initiative.
