WHY

Domestic, family and sexual violence is a public health emergency in Australia.

Recovery is an important way we can break the cycle of domestic, family and sexual violence.

Currently, in Australia, there is a lack of services and coordinated approaches to providing victim-survivors with the support they need.

Women with disabilities, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, women who are culturally and linguistically diverse, women who live rurally, and LGBTIQA+ communities, experience higher rates of violence and abuse and have less access to services, especially culturally relevant services .

Children are just as greatly impacted by domestic, family and sexual violence as adults. Recovery services are needed to support children and disrupt intergenerational patterns of violence.

Without appropriate recovery services, adult and child victim-survivors can be forgotten by health systems and left to deal with the effects of family violence on their own.

The Alliance has formed to make sure recovery gets the investment and focus it needs.

Women and children should have access to recovery services wherever they are, when they need them, for as long as they need them.