The Girls Can Boys Can project is a primary prevention campaign, which provides Early Childhood and Primary School educators with age-appropriate resources, activities and lesson plans that challenge rigid gender stereotypes, showing healthy, fun, equal and respectful relationships between girls and boys, along with the strengths of Aboriginal children, families and communities. It is about creating generational change to prevent violence against women.

In Australia, women are three times more likely to experience domestic, family and sexual violence in their lifetime than men. Violence against women occurs in society and in relationships where women and men are not equal. When women also experience racism, their risk of experiencing violence increases. But violence against women is preventable.

The evidence shows that to stop men’s violence against Aboriginal women we need women and men to be equal, we need to tell the truth about our colonisation history, and we need to fix the power imbalance between non-Indigenous people and Aboriginal people.

The Girls Can Boys Can Project has been community-led, evidence-based and framework informed.