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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

Application information and support

These resources are to help you understand what to expect when you apply via our online form, how documents can be uploaded to support your eligibility for the Leaving Violence Program, and how payments can be made to eligible victim-survivors.
Read the Finance Information Sheet
Read the Uploading Documents Information Sheet
Read the Sample Webform
Read the instruction guide on how to set-up portal

Videos

What to expect from the Leaving Violence Program​

This video outlines what to expect when applying for the Leaving Violence Program, which supports people in Australia leaving a partner who uses violence with financial and other supports.​

Leaving Violence Program: Using pre-paid visa cards​

This video outlines how to use the digital and physical pre-paid Visa cards which may be provided when accessing the Leaving Violence Program.​

Using financial support from the Leaving Violence Program​

This video outlines case studies and examples of how funds from the Leaving Violence Program might be used in support of escaping intimate partner violence.​

Am I eligible for the Leaving Violence Program?​

This video outlines the eligibility criteria for the Leaving Violence Program.

Want an easy read version?

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.
Accessible version
Read the Easy Read Program Fact Sheet
Read the Easy Read Program Fact Sheet - First Nations
Read the Easy Read Applying by yourself Sheet

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
Listen in Tiwi
Listen in Yumplatok

Help us raise awareness

These resources are for the community and government services to give to victim-survivors for more information about the program and how to access the program.

Program poster for non Aboriginal and Torres Straits Islanders
Leaving Violence Program Poster - English
Program poster for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
Leaving Violence Program Poster - First Nations
Program posters in other languages
Leaving Violence Program Poster - Arabic
Leaving Violence Program Poster - Spanish
Leaving Violence Program Poster - Hindi
Leaving Violence Program Poster - Tagalog
Leaving Violence Program Poster - Portugese
Leaving Violence Program Poster - Thai
Leaving Violence Program Poster - Punjabi
Leaving Violence Program Poster - Urdu
Leaving Violence Program Poster - Simplified Chinese
Leaving Violence Program Poster - Vietnamese

Resources for you

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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 (current or previous) that causes physical, sexual, spiritual or psychological harm.

Intimate partner violence can include:

  • physical, verbal or sexual abuse
  • emotional, spiritual or psychological abuse
  • financial abuse
  • threatening, coercive or controlling behaviours

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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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.

Want to get in touch?

Speak to a Leaving Violence Program support worker

You can reach us Monday - Friday, 8:30am - 5:30pm.

The Leaving Violence Program is closed on public holidays.

1800 253 283

Help us improve the Leaving Violence Program

Please use our feedback form to share your experience with the Leaving Violence Program. This form will allow you to submit a complaint, compliment, general feedback or if you disagree with the outcome of an application. Alternatively, you may also call the helpline to speak to one of our support workers who will be able to assist you.

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