Enlighten Education is proud to partner with Women’s Community Shelters on Walk The Talk, a powerful social impact initiative created by Enlighten CEO Dannielle Miller.

Walk The Talk combines Phase One: Education, delivered in schools by Enlighten Education, with Phase Two: Action, facilitated by Women’s Community Shelters. Together, these phases help students move beyond simply understanding respectful relationships and into creating meaningful change within their own communities.

We know education on its own isn’t enough. Young people can understand what respectful relationships look like. They can learn the language of consent. They can recognise the warning signs of unhealthy relationships and abuse.

But what matters is what happens next.

Walk The Talk was designed to bridge the gap between awareness and action. Through Enlighten’s evidence-based workshops, students explore respectful relationships, consent, gender stereotypes, healthy boundaries and domestic and family violence. They are then supported by Women’s Community Shelters to adopt their local shelter and undertake a year-long service learning project that creates genuine connection and practical support.

Because ending domestic and family violence requires more than awareness. It requires a generational shift in attitudes, behaviours and culture.

Since 2019, more than 23,000 students have taken part in Walk The Talk.

In 2025 alone:

• 6,333 students participated in the program
• 100% of students surveyed said they would recommend it to others
• Students generated more than $290,000 in community value through volunteer hours, goods and donations

Those numbers matter. But they are only part of the story. The real impact happens in the moments behind the statistics. It’s the student who recognises something in their own relationship isn’t right. The young person who knows, for the first time, what to say when a friend confides in them.The classroom where you can feel the shift as conversations become more honest, informed and respectful.

You may read the winner of the inaugural Walk The Talk awards, Arianna Levy’s , account of what the program taught her here in a profile published by Stellar Magazine.

Click on the video to hear more student voices describe their year of walking the talk.