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The Leaving Violence Program Resources

Program factsheets

Listen to information about the Leaving Violence Program
The Leaving Violence Program factsheets have more information on intimate partner violence, eligibility, how to apply and how the program can support you to leave a violent relationship with money, support for your safety and connect you to other services.
Read the Program Fact Sheet
Read the Program Fact Sheet - First Nations

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Simple and easy to understand factsheets on the Leaving Violence Program.
Everything you need to know including information on intimate partner violence, how the program can help you leave a violent relationship or connect you to other services you may need.
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Read the Easy Read Program Fact Sheet
Read the Easy Read Program Fact Sheet - First Nations
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Read the Easy Read Program Fact Sheet
Read the Easy Read Program Fact Sheet - First Nations

Listen in 4 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages

Listen to 4 available Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages on everything you need to know about the Leaving Violence Program.
Listen in East Side Kriol
Listen in Kimberley Kriol
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Listen in Yumplatok

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You can reach us Monday - Friday, 8:30am - 5:30pm. The Leaving Violence Program is closed on public holidays.
If you would like to request for information, provide feedback, complaints or make an appeal, please call the helpline to speak to one of our support workers who will be able to assist you.

1800 253 283

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.

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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
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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.