New Closing the Gap targets have been announced. All Australian governments have committed to the 16 targets. Among them, target 13 includes a commitment of ‘a significant and sustained reduction in violence and abuse against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and children towards zero’.
(Source: AWAVA, 30/7/20)
WESNET is conducting the second national survey about how technology is being used in domestic and family violence.
This project aims to find out more information from family violence practitioners about how technology is being used in family violence.
(NTV, 14/8/20)
The state government is extending a ban on evictions and rental increases until the end of 2020 giving tenants security they won’t lose their home during the pandemic. In addition, a new $600,000 package is being funded for advocacy groups to continue to support tenants during COVID-19. This funding will allow Tenants Victoria, VCOSS, Financial…
The state government has announced additional funding so that 1,500 perpetrators of family violence can move into short or long-term accommodation. This funding will also provide intervention and behaviour change programs for those who are using violence in the home – including dedicated support for adolescents using violence and their families. In addition, there will…
Rainbow Health Victoria are facilitating a Rainbow Tick Community of Practice to connect those working to develop LGBTIQ-safe and welcoming services. Rainbow Tick is a world-first accreditation program for LGBTIQ inclusion and remains the most impactful way to measure and demonstrate cultural safety for LGBTIQ people in service delivery For LGBTIQ people during COVID-19, there…
The Federal Government has increased funding for counselling and support services that support women and, in particular, children who have or are experiencing family violence.
The $3 million will be delivered over two years to 23 existing service providers across Australia.
(Source: Federal Government Media Releases, 13.7.20)
The Victorian Government will help people who are homelessness move into their own homes with a new $150 million From Homelessness to a Home package. The package will enable: the extension of temporary hotel and motel accommodation for around 2,000 people until April 2021; head leasing of 1,100 properties from the private rental market to…
A new program is being developed to help prevent family violence against people from LGBTIQ communities, with funding from the Victorian Government. La Trobe University’s Rainbow Health Victoria service has received $95,000 to develop a family violence prevention training program to help reduce family violence against LGBTIQ people. The program is in addition to the…
The Centre of Research Excellence: Safer Families is interested in hearing about women’s experience of fear and safety during isolation resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, including the impact this has had on children. The brief survey also asks if women have changed the way they access support services for family violence during the COVID-19 restrictions. …
Tania Farha has this month commenced as the new CEO for the merged organisations of DV Vic and DVRVC. Tania brings a deep commitment and experience in working to end violence against women and children and to achieve gender equality through her work in Victoria and internationally. Chair of DV Vic stated, ‘Tania brings insight…
