We will listen and, when you’re ready, we can give you information about what your options are, how you can find more support and next steps you might consider taking.
If you're not sure what to do or where to turn, a good starting point is contacting the Office of Human Rights and Equity.
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It’s also a place where campus members can find tips on how to provide the best support possible to survivors who choose to report, disclose or make a complaint. It shares what was heard about known issues, such as a fragmented and siloed services system, and the potential opportunities to transform services responses from circular and ineffective to those that are safe, innovative and meet the needs of victims and survivors as well as those who use violence.This page is a place where survivors of all backgrounds and identities can find support and information about sexual violence, prevention and response. The discussion is critical to anyone working in policy and practice in IPV and SV across the various sectors of health, justice and specialist services. This webinar features a panel discussion amongst the report’s researchers, experts with lived experience and practitioners from across the DFV sector. Using national survey data of the workforce, and in-depth qualitative data with victims and survivors of IPV and SV, and perpetrators of IPV and SV, the Transforming responses to intimate partner and sexual violence: Listening to the voices of victims, perpetrators and services research project builds an evidence base to improve system responses. Understanding the experiences of those who do is necessary to improve service responses and to focus on healing and recovery.
Navigating the service system to seek safety is challenging. Intimate partner violence (IPV) and sexual violence (SV) are pervasive issues within the Australian community, significantly impacting the wellbeing of women and children. The policy and practice recommendations developed by the researchers include improvements to the service system, and they call for community capacity-building and universal education for friends and family. This project is integral to informing service design and policy responses to address existing gaps in responses to victims and survivors and, crucially, in interventions with perpetrators. The insights from services on what currently works and what is required to more effectively respond is reflected in the findings from both victims and survivors and people who use violence.Ĭritically, this study has amplified the voices of victims and survivors and listened to the voices of perpetrators by exploring who they seek help from, what is valued when seeking help and what the barriers to help-seeking are. This is Australia’s first national study to clearly map the help-seeking journeys for victims and survivors of intimate partner and sexual violence, while also mapping the help-seeking journeys for people who use violence. 563 people who have used IPV and/or SV.ninety-five sector stakeholders (participants were practitioners, service designers and managers, and researchers).The project employed the following methods. an examination of service insights into what currently works when responding to victims and survivors and people who use violence, and what is required for change.mapping the different service needs and supports for women and people who use violence, and outlining what was valued in and expected from services.patterns of intimate partner and sexual violence used by the people who use it, over their lifetime.the lived experience of intimate partner and sexual violence by a group of women throughout their life.The research generated empirical evidence about the following key issues: This project used mixed methods to explore the experiences of the help-seeking journey for victims and survivors and people who use violence, with insights from the service system.
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