Refreshing the Family Safety Framework
What are we doing? A risk assessment tool used by government and non-government services is being expanded to include cohort specific risk factors. What have…
Improve support and service system responses
Rent Choice Start Safely
Rent Choice Start Safely is a private rental assistance product that provides a subsidy and links to supports, to help people rent privately across NSW…
Domestic and Family Violence Leave
What are we doing? The NSW Government provides ten days of paid domestic and family violence leave per year for public sector employees experiencing domestic…
Premier’s Priority to Reduce Domestic Violence Reoffending
What are we doing? The Premier’s Priority for reducing domestic violence reoffending aims to decrease the number of domestic violence reoffenders by 25 percent by…
Counselling Services in Prison
What are we doing? This initiative facilitates access for women in custody who are eligible under the Victims Support Scheme (VSS) to free counselling to…
Staying Home Leaving Violence
What are we doing? Staying Home Leaving Violence (SHLV) is a specialised domestic and family violence program that aims to reduce risk to women and…
Women’s Domestic Violence Court Advocacy Program
What are we doing? Legal Aid NSW’s Women’s Domestic Violence Court Advocacy Program (WDVCAP) administers NSW Government funding for 27 Women’s Domestic Violence Court Advocacy…
Youth Justice Domestic and Family Violence Strategy and support programs
What are we doing? The Youth Justice Domestic and Family Violence Strategy 2019 – 2022 (the Strategy) is a coordinated approach to addressing the needs…
Specialist Homelessness Services
What are we doing? Through the Specialist Homelessness Services program, the NSW Government funds non-government organisations to deliver a range of services and supports for…
Integrated Domestic and Family Violence Services Program
What are we doing? The Integrated Domestic and Family Violence Services (IDFVS) program is a multi-agency, integrated and coordinated response to domestic and family violence…
Domestic Violence Line
What are we doing? The NSW Government’s Domestic Violence Line (DV Line) is a 24/7 crisis intervention service for women who experience intimate partner or…
Safer Pathway
What are we doing? Safer Pathway aims to ensure that all victim–survivors of domestic and family violence in NSW receive a timely, effective and consistent…
Proactive policing to hold perpetrators accountable and support victim-survivors
What are we doing? NSW Police Force operate a three-tiered, proactive perpetrator accountability model that reflects the different levels of risk posed by domestic and…
NSW Health Violence, Abuse and Neglect Health Redesign Program
What are we doing? The NSW Government’s Violence, Abuse and Neglect Redesign Program will enhance the capacity of the NSW public health system to provide…
Perpetrator Interventions in the Justice System
What are we doing? Recommendation 87 of Victoria’s Royal Commission into Family Violence relates to research, trialling and evaluation of interventions for perpetrators of family…
Specialist Family Violence Courts and Family Violence Contact Centre
What are we doing? Specialist Family Violence Courts (SFVCs) To progress Recommendation 60 of Victoria’s Royal Commission into Family Violence (RCFV), the Magistrates’ Court Act…
Free from Violence – First Action Plan 2018–2021; and building the capacity of diverse communities
What are we doing? The Free from violence First Action Plan 2018-2021 commits government to five priority areas to prevent family violence: 1. build prevention…
Therapeutic responses
What are we doing? Therapeutic response initiatives provide specialist support to victim survivors of family violence and sexual assault to assist them to understand the…
The Orange Door
What are we doing? The Orange Door is a new way for women, children and young people experiencing family violence and families in need of…
Risk assessment and management
What are we doing? The Family Violence Multi Agency Risk Assessment and Management Framework (MARAM) aims to ensure professionals and services across the system have…
Refuges / housing
What are we doing? The Victorian Government is phasing out communal refuges and moving towards a ‘core and cluster’ model including building two new Aboriginal…
Strengthened perpetrator interventions
What are we doing? Victoria is providing significant support for interventions that seek to change and challenge violent behaviour, keep perpetrators in view and hold…
Central Information Point
What are we doing? The Central Information Point (CIP) is a unique and targeted cross government information sharing service to improve access to risk-relevant information…
Building from strength
What are we doing? Building from Strength – 10-Year Industry Plan for Family Violence Prevention and Response was released in 2017 and sets out the…