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…
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Improving specialist Sexual Assault Services
What are we doing? The NSW Government is investing $29.1 million over five years from 2018-19 to improve access to specialist services for victim/survivors of…
Domestic and Family Violence Innovation Fund
What are we doing? The $20 million Domestic and Family Violence Innovation Fund is a commitment under the NSW Domestic and Family Violence Blueprint for…
Services for Male Perpetrators of domestic and family violence
What are we doing? The NSW Government funds a number of initiatives aimed at male perpetrators of domestic and family violence. The Men’s Telephone Counselling…
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…
Improving services working with LGBTQ+ communities
What are we doing? As part of the NSW Sexual Assault Strategy 2018-2021, launched in 2018, the NSW Government is working with ACON to support…
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…
Multisystemic Therapy for Child Abuse and Neglect (MST-CAN®) and Functional Family Therapy through Child Welfare (FFT-CW®)
What are we doing? Multisystemic Therapy for Child Abuse and Neglect (MST-CAN®) and Functional Family Therapy through Child Welfare (FFT-CW®), deliver world-leading evidence-based in-home therapeutic…
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…
NSW Sexual Assault Strategy 2018–2021
What are we doing? The NSW Sexual Assault Strategy 2018-2021 (the Strategy) is a whole-of-government framework to improve prevention and response to sexual assault in…
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…
Child protection education in schools
What are we doing? The NSW Government provides a proactive and comprehensive program for child protection education which is taught in all schools in NSW…
Child Sexual Offence Evidence Program
What are we doing? Victims Services delivers the Child Sexual Offence Evidence Program (CSOEP), providing two initiatives to assist child victims of sexual offences to…
Responses to children and young people with problematic and harmful sexual behaviours
What are we doing? The NSW Government allocated $37.7 million over five years from 2018-19 to improve the prevention of and responses to children and…
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…
NSW Women’s Strategy 2018–2022
What are we doing? The NSW Women’s Strategy 2018–2022 is a whole-of-government, whole-of-community policy framework that aims to improve the economic, social and physical wellbeing…
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…
Ageing and Disability Commission
What are we doing? NSW Government established an Ageing and Disability Commission from 1 July 2019 to protect and promote the rights of adults with…
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…