Junction Support Services is a well-established not-for-profit organisation in regional Victoria and surrounds. They support people across their lifespan—from the infants who are part of our young parents program, to the children who receive counseling for trauma, the adolescents they support to re-engage with education and the individuals of all ages they support through homelessness and family violence programs.
PFA’s Small Grant to Junction Support Services supports them in hosting the first AFL Pride Cup within their local area. The event aims to increase education, awareness and reduce stigma for LGBTQIA+ people within regional Braybrook, who face nuanced biases from being LGBTQIA+ and living in a small community.
Examples include; not seeking mental health support from LGBTQIA+ friendly organisations for fear of knowing the practitioners and not living authentically for fear of ‘word getting out’ and it then affecting their work or community connections.
The Pride Cup will be a loud, proud and public celebration of LGBTQIA+ people in a traditionally unsafe space for LGBTQIA+ folks, with the education session for players alone showing a 40% improvement in homophobic language thereafter. It will take place on 10/08/2024.
