safe steps Family Violence Response Centre

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.

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