Initiatives

Government

• Pride, Respect, Equality campaign from Respect Victoria
• Victims of Crime Consultative Committee is a forum for members to discuss policies, practices and systems’ reform that can improve the experience of victims of crime and provides advice to the Attorney-General and Minister for Victim Support.
• Victim Survivors' Advisory Council (VSAC) was created to give people with lived experience of family violence a voice and ensure they are consulted in Victoria's family violence reform program.
• VSAC share what Respect Is
• Victoria's Family Violence Memorial
• Department of Families, Fairness and Housing Framework for trauma-informed practice(opens in a new window).
• Department of Families, Fairness and Housing is developing tools and resources for community services focussed on the Client Voice.

Sector

• Berry Street’s Youth engagement (Y-Change) Y-Change is a social and systemic change platform for young people aged 18 to 30 with lived experiences of socioeconomic disadvantage.
• Embedding family violence lived experience, Safe and Equal reflections on the establishment of Safe and Equal’s Expert Advisory Panel.
• LGBTI lived experience at Thorne Harbour Health
• Margins to the Mainstream: Preventing violence against women with disabilities is designed to amplify the voices of women with lived experience of disabilities.
• NOOR - ‘Narrating Our Own Resilience’ Survivor-Advocates are culturally and linguistically diverse victim-survivors who influence policy, service provisions and media reporting with lived experience.
• Our Watch - Voices for Change a media advocacy program for the prevention of violence against women.
• Safe Steps Survivor Advocate Program is designed to empower women who have a lived experience of family violence to participate in opportunities to raise awareness of family, domestic and gender-based violence, influence policy development, service planning and practice.
• Sustainable and Transformative Employment Pathways (STEP) project supports victim-survivors of family violence to find employment and achieve greater financial wellbeing.
• The Independent Collective of Survivors (ICOS) empowering domestic, family and sexual violence victim survivors’ diverse lived expertise to reduce gendered violence.
• Voices for Change was Domestic Violence NSW's first lived experience project aimed at bringing an end to domestic, family and sexual violence through media advocacy.

Community

• Sisters in Law project is a national foundation established in January 2021 by survivor advocates to help women navigate the Family Court.
• Vicki Cleary Day is an annual event held at Coburg Football Club to honour women killed by men’s violence and to raise awareness about men’s violence against women.
• Wisdom in Practice a guided reverse mentoring program where social work graduates and their supervisors are mentored by victim-survivors.