Violence Against Women Engagement
A Shout Out speaker brought lived experience into a conversation about violence against women, for an audience used to hearing about multicultural youth rather than from them.
The Context
Young people from migrant and refugee backgrounds are often discussed in sector conversations without being heard directly. For this engagement, CMY wanted a Shout Out speaker to contribute lived experience to a conversation about violence against women and help audiences better understand multicultural youth perspectives.
The challenge
Sector audiences can be well-versed in the policy and service dimensions of an issue, and still disconnected from what it feels like on the ground. The task was closing that gap without the session feeling like a performance of trauma.
Our approach
Shout Out matched the engagement with a multicultural young speaker who could speak from lived experience in a way that was relevant, professional and accessible. The aim was to support audience learning through direct storytelling, rather than relying only on organisational or sector perspectives.
The impact
The client strongly agreed the speaker helped the audience better understand multicultural young people, was engaging and professional, and that the booking process was clear and easy, and said they would recommend Shout Out to others. Rather than a passive presentation, the session prompted audience curiosity and follow-up questions, showing that lived-experience storytelling can carry complex social issues further than a sector briefing does on its own.
“The audience were actually captivated and had so many questions afterwards.”
