The Leaving Violence Program is not a crisis service. If you're in immediate danger, call 000.
Financial Stress
Being in financial stress means that the client is experiencing issues with their money or finances. For example finding:
- it hard to pay your bills
- you can’t access your own money
- you are unable to afford to leave your violent relationship.
Intimate Partner Relationship
An intimate partner refers to a person with whom one shares or shared a close personal relationship, characterised by emotional and physical intimacy, and where their lives are or were intertwined or dependent (financially, physically, emotionally). This can be current or former spouses or de facto partners. Intimate partners can be the same or opposite sex.
Intimate Partner Violence
Intimate partner violence is any behaviour within an intimate relationship that causes physical, sexual, spiritual, or psychological harm.
Intimate partner violence can be:
- physically, verbally or sexually abusive
- emotionally, spiritually or psychologically abusive
- financially abusive, and/or
- threatening, coercive, or seeking to control or dominate the other person.
Living Arrangements
Changing living arrangements could include: moving home, staying with a friend/family, staying at a refuge, remaining in the home when your partner has left or being made homeless.
Quick Exit
If you need to exit this page quickly, you can use the
button at the top of the screen, or press the Esc key.
Device Safety
If you think someone's monitoring your devices, visit this website from a computer, tablet or smartphone that isn't being monitored. Exit from this website and delete it from your browser history. For more information, visit this page.
Online Safety
Online abuse includes threats, harassment, image-based abuse, terrorism, or extreme violence. If you’ve experienced or come across any of this, it’s important to know support and reporting options are available. For more information, visit this page.
Risk and Needs Assessment
A risk assessment involves talking with a support worker to identify the ways the person using violence has hurt or harmed you in the past and how likely you think they will try and hurt or harm you in the future. The support worker uses this information to work out what the person using violence may do in the future and how likely it is, and what supports you need to stay safe.
Safety Planning
Safety planning is naming things you can do to be safer when living with violence or abuse.
Quick Exit
If you need to exit this page quickly, you can use the
button at the top of the screen, or press the Esc key.
Device Safety
If you think someone's monitoring your devices, visit this website from a computer, tablet or smartphone that isn't being monitored. Exit from this website and delete it from your browser history. For more information, visit this page.
Online Safety
Online abuse includes threats, harassment, image-based abuse, terrorism, or extreme violence. If you’ve experienced or come across any of this, it’s important to know support and reporting options are available. For more information, visit this page.
Intimate Partner
An intimate partner refers to a person with whom one shares or shared a close personal relationship, characterised by emotional and physical intimacy, and where their lives are or were intertwined or dependent (financially, physically, emotionally). This can be current or former spouses or de facto partners. Intimate partners can be the same or opposite sex. Coercive control involves perpetrators using patterns of abusive behaviours over time in a way that creates fear and denies liberty and autonomy.
Intimate Partner Violence
Intimate partner violence refers to any behaviour within an intimate relationship (current or previous) that causes physical, sexual or psychological harm. It also encompasses family, domestic and sexual violence which refers to: a) violence between two people who are, or were, in an intimate relationship; and/or b) violence between family members, family-like relationships or kinship relationships; and/or c) sexual actions without consent. These forms of violence include, but are not limited to physical, sexual, emotional, psychological and financial abuse, and coercive control.
Finances
For example: Finding it hard to pay your bills, can't access your own money, you are unable to afford to leave your violent relationship.
Live
Changing living arrangements could include: moving home, staying with a friend/family, staying at a refuge, remaining in the home when your partner has left or being made homeless.