Seeking safety during COVID-19
You are not alone: Seeking safety from family violence during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Supporting women and children to live free from family violence
Respond
We assist women and their children experiencing family violence through our 24/7 phone line and specialist support services.
Recover
We help family violence survivors overcome trauma and thrive in lives free from violence.
Prevent
We work towards a community free from family violence through education and social change initiatives.
Understanding family violence
What is Family Violence?
Family violence is any threatening, coercive, dominating or abusive behaviour that occurs between people in a family, domestic or intimate relationship, or former intimate relationship, that causes the person experiencing the behaviour to feel fear.
Types of abuse
Violence isn’t just physical. Emotional and psychological abuse can be just as damaging.
How to be an active bystander
Know how to act when you witness a situation of abuse or unacceptable behaviour.
How safe steps helped in 2018 -19...
86,638
calls to our 24/7 response phone lines
42,000+
bed nights in safe emergency accommodation
3761
women were provided case management and accommodation
116
women and children in emergency accommodation on any given night