About Us

History of the It's Time to Talk Website

‘It’s Time to Talk’ was a joint partnership project of the City of Canterbury-Bankstown Council and the Canterbury Bankstown Domestic Violence Liaison Committee.

‘It’s Time to Talk’ was a joint partnership project of the City of Canterbury-Bankstown Council (formerly Bankstown City Council and Canterbury City Council) and the Canterbury Bankstown Domestic Violence Liaison Committee (formerly two separate committees).

Domestic Violence impacts all communities, cultures and socio-economic groups. In Canterbury-Bankstown domestic and family violence has been repeatedly identified throughout community consultations and crime profiling as a significant issue for our local community.

Scroll through the timeline to see where the project is up to now.

It’s Time to Talk Timeline - 2007 to 2021

History

2007

The It’s Time to Talk campaign emerged in 2007 when the key stakeholders across Bankstown and Canterbury came together with the desire to raise awareness and provide better understanding of Domestic Violence locally.

Over the years, the CBDVLC has coordinated campaigns, a conference and training sessions for GPs, childcare workers and community workers to help our local service providers better identify and respond to domestic violence.

2009 - an award winning project

In 2009 the ITTT campaign was a state winner receiving a certificate of merit from the Australian Crime Prevention awards program in recognition of the innovative ways the program raised awareness. It won the same award in 2013 for its professional development seminars offered to community and child care workers.

2018 to 2020

The award funds were put back into the project in 2018 to support its new goal of re-launching the website and providing workshops to the community. The website would promote healthy relationships along with providing information and resources relating to domestic and family violence. It is to be designed to engage young people between the ages of 18 and 25, as well as providing access to resources for professionals.

2021 and onwards

The new direction of the ITTT website is to develop links and build on other local initiatives to provide a central location for the community and professionals to access information and resources. Raising awareness of what domestic and family violence looks like and where to access support guides the programs developments, but it will also promote that Canterbury Bankstown says YES to healthy relationships, and explore what this looks like.

Workshops delivered in partnership with SWS Recovery College will explore healthy relationships and domestic and family violence with young people aged between 18 and 25.

Our thanks to all the people who have worked so hard on this project, it is a real team effort.

The It’s Time to Talk sub-committee is comprised of Canterbury Earlwood Caring Association (the auspice for this project) DVLC members and other volunteers, including young people from Youth Action and University Students., City of Canterbury Bankstown, Chester Hill Neighborhood Centre, and South West Sydney Legal Centre.

Special thanks to Ananda Vasudevan for the many hours worked pro-bono helping to redesign the site, including developing the wireframe and leading focus testing interviews and workshops.

Thanks also to Canterbury Earlwood Caring Association Social Work Students in particular Eleanor for the background research, Kaylee for collating and writing content and Elena for getting the site and project ready to launch.

Thanks also to Joel Spencer from for his generosity in time, creativity, and patience with the design of the new website.

We also want to extend a thank you to Kurt Iredale also for his time and creativity with various illustrations on the website.

‘It’s Time to Talk’ does NOT provide a direct service. If you require assistance, see here.

It's Time To Talk Acknowledgement

The It’s Time To Talk Committee is happy for other committees you utilise the It’s Time To Talk material, including logo, slogan and content for the purposes of community education and awareness of the issue of domestic violence in their community.

The It’s Time To Talk Committee would respectfully request that use of any of this material is done so with prior approval. The Committee also requests for material used to acknowledge the Canterbury-Bankstown It’s Time To Talk Committee.

Acknowledgement paragraph on promotional material to be “Event organisers would like to acknowledge the Canterbury-Bankstown It’s Time To Talk Committee, established in 2007, to educate and raise awareness of the issue of domestic violence.”

The It’s Time To Talk Committee would be happy to assist in promotion of other It’s Time To Talk domestic violence education events through this website. For further information about the campaign or for approval to use It’s Time To Talk material, please contact 02 9707 9212.

Previous Website Resources

It’s Time To Talk has been a ongoing campaign spanning back to the year 2007.
The past initiative had a strong and sole focus on the prevention of domestic violence and providing resources for domestic violence victims.
The old website reflected these aims and had many valuable and important sections too.
Click here to view the old website materials.