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Office for Women
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Our vision
A safe and supportive community, where domestic, family and sexual violence is not tolerated in any form.
Three pillars of response
1. Primary prevention
Short-term actions (within one year)
- Reframed violence against women collaborations
- Employment and leadership strategy.
Medium-term actions (within one-to-two years)
- Develop a primary prevention toolkit for local government
- Expand Women's Information Service children's centre program
- Ensure government funding supports respectful representations of women and domestic violence policies.
Long-term actions (within three-to-four years)
- Working with business.
2. Services and support
Short-term actions (within one year)
- Pets.
Medium-term actions (within one-to-two years)
- Early intervention in community settings
- Perpetrator referral pathway into the Family Safety Framework and responses to children and young people
- Risk assessment tool
- Safety hubs
- Interest-free loans
- 24/7 domestic violence crisis line
- Crisis accommodation
- Perpetrator interventions
- Safety-first response
- Domestic violence packages
- National tenancy research
- Child protection and domestic violence interface.
Long-term actions (within three-to-four years)
- Data
- Affordable housing pathways
- Improved system pathways
- Awareness-raising for health and education professionals in recognising domestic and family violence
- Sexual harassment in licenced industries
- Workforce.
3. Justice
Short-term actions (within one year)
- Reducing re-offending
- Awareness-raising campaign.
Medium-term actions (within one-to-two years)
- Family court and risk assessment guidelines
- Mandated perpetrator programs and accommodation expansion
- Review of systemic responses to domestic, family and sexual violence.
Long-term actions (within three-to-four years)
- Lower risk threshold for the family safety framework.
Enablers
- Data and evidence base
- Monitoring our impact and evaluation.