Helping local communities reduce violence against women
The Commonwealth Government is investing over $4 million across 28 projects to help local communities reduce violence against women.
Minister for Social Services, Christian Porter said the successful grant recipients would each receive up to $150,000 to develop solutions to local issues.
“The prevalence of domestic violence across Australia is unacceptable,” Mr Porter said.
“One in six Australian women has experienced violence from a current or former partner.
“These grants recognise that we must all work together – governments, organisations and communities – to support women and their children experiencing violence, and to prevent it from happening in the first place.”
Some of the projects include:
- The establishment of eight crisis accommodation shelters across North Sydney, Shoalhaven, Kempsey, Lismore and Newcastle for women who are homeless or escaping violence;
- The introduction of a community leader education programme in Alice Springs to stop violence before it occurs and promote a safer and healthier community; and
- The development of a youth network in Adelaide to better detect and act upon incidences of domestic violence.
The projects will be supported by Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety who will also develop case studies of their effectiveness.
“These projects will give us a better understanding of what approaches work and why -invaluable knowledge that will be shared between the grant recipients and made available to other communities,” Mr Porter said.
Funding for the Building Safe Communities for Women grant is a Commonwealth Government initiative under the National Plan to reduce Violence against Women and their Children 2010-2022.
For more information go to plan4womenssafety.dss.gov.au
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Applicant |
Project Title |
Location |
Grant |
|---|---|---|---|
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Australian Capital Territory |
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Carers ACT |
We all care project |
Canberra |
$150,000.00 |
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New South Wales |
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Glen Innes Family Support Services |
Safe in our town project |
Glen Innes |
$140,300.00 |
|
Arab Council |
Live safe feel safe project |
Bankstown |
$150,000.00 |
|
Benevolent Society |
Women’s domestic violence prevention Macarthur project |
Campbelltown, Camden and Wollondilly |
$150,000.00 |
|
Bourke Aboriginal Health |
Challenge to Bourke to reduce family violence project |
Bourke |
$150,000.00 |
|
Women’s Community Shelter |
Women’s community shelters project |
Nth Sydney, Shoalhaven, Kempsey, Lismore and Newcastle |
$150,000.00 |
|
Uniting Church in Australia Property Trust (NSW) |
Mentors in violence prevention project |
Wyong |
$142,000.00 |
|
Northern Territory |
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Tangentyere Council |
Family safety project |
Alice Springs |
$150,000.00 |
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Save the Children |
Act local project |
Palmerston |
$150,000.00 |
|
Tennant Creek Women’s Refuge |
No more violence project |
Barkly Region |
$150,000.00 |
|
World Vision |
Channels of hope project |
Lajamanu |
$150,000.00 |
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Queensland |
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ACCESS Community Services |
Living together, living safely project |
Logan and Ipswich |
$149,646.00 |
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Cairns Regional DV Service |
Working from a collective impact project |
Cairns |
$134,877.00 |
|
Save the Children |
Act local project |
Doomadgee, Normanton and North Burnett |
$150,000.00 |
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South Australia |
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Sammy D |
Ending the cycle project |
Bedford Park |
$149,621.00 |
|
City of Salisbury |
No more excuses project |
Salisbury |
$111,160.00 |
|
Aboriginal Health Council |
Aboriginal Health Council’s project |
South Australia |
$150,000.00 |
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Tasmania |
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Migrant Resource Centre |
Creating safe culturally diverse project |
Hobart and Glenorchy |
$150,000.00 |
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Colony 47 Inc |
What will it take – our community talks, listens, acts project |
Launceston and North East Tasmania |
$146,594.00 |
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Victoria |
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InTouch Multicultural Centre Against Family Violence |
United in diversity: facilitating safer pathways project |
Dandenong |
$149,525.00 |
|
Carers Victoria |
Working Together with Men (WTWM) project |
West Melbourne |
$150,000.00 |
|
Southern Family Life Service Association |
Cardinia collective impact project |
Melbourne South East |
$150,000.00 |
|
Women’s Health Loddon Mallee |
Stand strong – safe communities for women project |
Loddon Mallee |
$148,400.00 |
|
Primary Care Connect |
Conversations for change project |
Shepparton |
$150,000.00 |
|
Save the Children |
Act local project |
Bairnsdale |
$150,000.00 |
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Western Australia |
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Women’s Health Care |
Women’s Health Care project |
Western Australia |
$150,000.00 |
|
Association for Services Torture and Trauma Survivors |
Families united together project |
Perth |
$150,000.00 |
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Marninwarntikura Fitzroy Women’s Resource Centre |
Women building belonging project |
Fitzroy Valley |
$150,000.00 |
|
Peel Community Development Centre |
Peels says no to violence project |
Mandurah |
$147,000.00 |
|
Save the Children |
Act local project |
Kununurra |
$150,000.00 |