Survivors

This resource hub provides information and access to our WEAVERS (lived experience) network as well as online tools and other resources health practitioners can use to assist those experiencing, or at risk of domestic or family violence. If you are in urgent need of help, please visit our HELP page.

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We acknowledge that survivors of domestic and family violence may be any gender. Anyone can also of course use violence. All forms of violence are unacceptable. Our Centre has a focus on domestic violence and abuse or intimate partner violence, which mostly occurs in the home. Our focus on women is because research supports that men are the perpetrators in the majority of cases for domestic violence. Incident reports also show that violence against men is more often outside the home. [2] 

Globally, one in three women experience physical or sexual violence by partners.[1] Women are more likely than men to experience severe physical, emotional and sexual abuse from a current or past partner, causing fear, injuries chronic physical and mental health problems and premature death.[1] Domestic violence damages the mental and physical health of individual women, men, young people and children [1] and is a leading contributor to death and disability for women of child-bearing age.[4] One woman is killed every week by a partner in Australia. [5] One in six Australian women report lifetime experience of physical or sexual violence in an intimate relationship and one in twenty men, with about one third of Australian children exposed to IPV.[2] Between the birth of a first child and that child turning one year of age, one in five Australian women report experiences of physical and/or emotional violence by an intimate partner, translating to around 60,000 Australian families affected in this phase of life each year.[3]