Being in financial stress means that the client is experiencing issues with their money or finances. For example finding:
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 is any behaviour within an intimate relationship that causes physical, sexual, spiritual, or psychological harm.
Intimate partner violence can be:
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.
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 is naming things you can do to be safer when living with violence or abuse.