Community Safety

What is Community Safety Month?

Community Safety Month provides Victorians with a chance to take part in activities and events and learn how to make local communities safer places to live and work.

Held in October each year, the month aims to promote awareness about a broad range of safety matters, including crime prevention, personal safety, safe work practices and staying safe during an emergency.

Community Safety Month was initiated in 1996 by the Victorian Safe Communities Network, which coordinates the project with support from Victoria Police.

Local communities, groups, schools, regional services, businesses, state and local government departments and agencies, are encouraged to build community safety partnerships by organising safety activities with other groups.

By promoting safety and safe practices within your community, you will be contributing to increasing the confidence of Victorians about safety.

Community Safety Month practises a partnership-based approach, with over 80 per cent of activities organised in partnership between two or more different organisations, groups or government agencies.

Some examples of activities you can organise are:

• Promote Community Safety Month in your organisation's newsletters and on your website.
• Organise a community forum or seminar on a community safety topic of your choice.
• Run competitions with a safety theme in your local newspaper or organisation's newsletter.
• Distribute information (flyers/leaflets) to promote your organisation and their safety message.
• Undertake safety audits of local areas - home, business, and shopping centre.
• Prepare a safety display for your local shopping centre.
• Launch safety projects and campaigns in your area.
• Run practical workshops on safety, for example a self-defence seminar.
• Create an open day style event, enticing the public to get an inside look at the safety measures you have in place.

Languages Other Than English (LOTE)

• LOTE - Chinese
• LOTE - Croatian
• LOTE - Greek
• LOTE - Italian
• LOTE - Khmer
• LOTE - Macedonian
• LOTE - Maltese
• LOTE - Somali
• LOTE - Turkish
• LOTE - Vietnamese

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