The Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing (CWSW) is committed to our work being informed by women with lived experience. CWSW prioritises engagement with women with lived experience to contribute to the prevention and responses to family, domestic and sexual violence. We recognise that victim-survivors hold valuable knowledge and expertise about domestic, family, and sexual violence.
The month of May marked Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Month, an annual initiative to raise community awareness of domestic and family violence. An important way to raise awareness is to listen to victim survivors’ own voice, lived experiences, knowledge, and expertise. Thus, we begin this edition with the voices of women with lived experience of domestic and family violence.
Other articles in this edition include:
National organisation established to drive change in culture, behaviours and power imbalances that lead to violence against women of which Western Australia is a member.
Read moreNational framework for the prevention of violence against women and their children. The framework is an initiative of the National Plan and was developed by Our Watch, Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety (ANROWS) and Vic Health.
Rates of physical and sexual assault, family and domestic violence, and childhood abuse from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Path to Safety: Western Australia’s strategy to reduce family and domestic violence 2020 – 2030
The framework for change has four focus areas:
The Strategy is supported by three action plans. The First Action Plan will run from July 2020 to June 2022.
Stronger Together – WA’s Plan for Gender Equality (2020)
The Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians and first peoples of Australia. We recognise the impacts of colonisation and dispossession and the contemporary disadvantage experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing is committed to working alongside Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and men to end violence against their women and children in Western Australia.
The Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing acknowledges the strength and resilience of adults, children and young people who have experienced family and domestic violence. We pay respects to those who did not survive and acknowledge the families, friends and communities who have lost loved ones to this preventable and widespread issue. We are committed to ensuring responses to family and domestic violence are informed by lived experience.
The Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing recognises, welcomes and respects people of diverse gender, sex and sexuality. We are committed to greater inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer people (LGBTIQ).
