UNE Safe Communities Training

Safe Communities represents UNE’s commitment to an inclusive, safe and respectful environment for all members of our community. Safe Communities builds upon and expands previous work to encompass all identified psychosocial hazards inclusive of sexual harm and involves every UNE community member including staff and students. It is a University-wide approach to prevention and management of  harmful behaviours, targeting the drivers of psychosocial hazards and  sexual harm including however not limited to, bullying, workplace violence, abuse, technology facilitated abuse and child safety.

UNE will not tolerate sexual harm and unacceptable behaviour, in any form or in any environment.

A safe UNE community is for everyone, with everyone, by everyone.

Content Caution

The following training content challenges root attitudes and beliefs about sexual violence and its causes. You will be viewing confronting and sensitive material and exploring challenging topics.

If you have experienced violence you may find some of the content difficult.

Similarly, if you have not been exposed to this content before you may find the information confronting and challenging.

If training raises any upsetting issues for you, please do not hesitate to seek support. UNE offers several ways you can seek sensitive and confidential help. Our specially trained staff and student leaders can help when you need to talk — they will respond to you with respect and understanding.

Support options available for both staff and students

Training Courses

Responding to Disclosure of Sexual Violence

Audience: Staff and Students

Responding to Disclosures of Sexual Violence is an online course that will ensure all university staff and students can provide an appropriate supportive and consistent response across the University.

This course provides interactive and comprehensive training on the first response to disclosures.

The course empowers staff and students across various roles and departments to manage this sensitive and complex issue, providing them with the skills to respond appropriately, empathetically and confidently.

MATE: Motivating Action Through Empowerment

Audience: Staff and Students.

The Motivating Action Through Empowerment (MATE) program is designed to learn about what it takes to be an active and effective bystander,  explores the foundations of a respectful sexual relationship and about what we can do to contribute to healthy, equal and safe homes, workplaces, schools and communities. The training takes about 90mins, is self-paced and you can exit and return if required.

Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault

Audience: Staff and Students

Universities Australia (UA) in conjunction with the Australian Psychological Society (APS) have developed the Sexual harassment and sexual assault: What are the drivers and how can staff respond module as part of the Respect. Now. Always. initiative. This course is aimed at Australian university staff and should be completed by ALL university staff.

Learning Consent
Sex and Consent

Audience: Staff and Students

Welcome to Sex and Consent. The training you are about to complete has been created by Learning Consent. Learning Consent exists to enable young people to get better at sexual consent.  Dr Joy Townsend, the CEO and Founder of Learning Consent is a sociologist and her area of expertise is young people's experiences of gender and sexuality.

For her research, Dr Townsend has had the privilege of listening to countless young people tell their story with regards to how they’ve navigated their sexuality.

You are here because you're about to complete our short online course on consent. Let's be honest, sex ed in Australia hasn't been great. We've had the milkshake video. There's the video on tea and consent. There's a whole lot of cartoons and stick figures. You won't find any of that here. This is adult education for adults.

Each module centres on a young person's story and these stories are based on real-life case studies from the research. You'll hear young people speak candidly about their lived experiences of sex and consent.

This subject can be confronting and some of the content may be triggering for people who have lived experience of sexual violence. Please take care of yourself as you move through the content. There will be support services signposted at the end of each module for you to reach out to if you need them.

The end goal of this learning is to help young people will feel more capable of being involved in safe and respectful sexual experiences when the time is right for them.

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Building a Culture of Accessibility and Inclusion

This eLearning course is designed to enhance your understanding of disability in the workplace, and to identify practical ways to build an accessible and inclusive workplace culture. For leaders and team members.

The course takes around 20 minutes to complete

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Child Safe Organisation E-learning

There are 11 e-learning modules. They include an introductory module which gives an overview of the development and content of the National Principles, and separate modules on each of the ten National Principles.

Each module will take participants around 20 minutes.

The modules are intended to help people working or volunteering in all organisations that engage with children and young people – including organisations of various sizes, across Australia, in all sectors. They provide introductory content as well as links to more detailed resources and practical tools.

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Office of the Children's Guardian E-learning

The Office of the Children's Guardian provides 5 eLearning courses to help you keep children safe in your organisation.

  • Child Safe Councils (new)
  • Child Safe Sport
  • Child Safe eLearning – Keeping children safe in organisations
  • SAFESpace eLearning – Keeping children safe in organisations in the disability sector
  • Responding to Reportable Allegations (modules 1–7 now available)

Please note the Child Safe and SafeSPACE courses are being updated. While the information in the current courses is still relevant, the updated modules will include new material and you may wish to return to complete them when they become available later in the year.

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Sexual Harassment

Workplace sexual harassment is an issue that affects everyone, with 1 in 3 people having experienced it directly. This learning module is designed to reduce the risk of workplace sexual harassment occurring, and to help people respond if they experience or witness workplace sexual harassment.

In this learning module, you will:

  • explore what workplace sexual harassment is, and who is most likely to experience it
  • find examples of the types of actions and behaviours involved
  • interact with a case study that shows the impacts of workplace sexual harassment on those that experience and witness it
  • learn about the role of the Fair Work Commission in dealing with sexual harassment.

Workplace Sexual Harassment eLearning Module