In August 2025, Big hART’s documentary It Starts With Us was broadcast nationally on ABC. The 30-minute film follows a group of teenagers from Frankston North, Victoria, as they participate in Project O, a school-based family violence prevention program. The documentary highlights the program’s impact and underscores the critical importance of grassroots prevention work with young people.

Following the broadcast, Big hART delivered a national social impact strategy designed to increase awareness of youth-focused prevention and advocate for greater investment in early intervention. With two in five young people affected by family violence, and prevention receiving less than 5% of total funding, the strategy was guided by a central question: how can cycles of violence be broken without sustained, meaningful investment in prevention?

Central to the strategy was a series of leadership workshops with the young people featured in the documentary,  deepening their understanding of policymaking, prevention, evidence and social service systems.

“Violence is not inevitable, violence is preventable” Rosie Batty, Family Violence Advocate