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Get help from wherever you are in Australia, with 24/7 support.

Crisis Support Block
Safe Steps (VIC)

Inclusive and confidential, family and domestic violence crisis support service. Call 1800 015 188

Women’s Domestic Violence Helpline (WA)

Support for women, with or without children who are experiencing family and domestic violence. 1800 007 339
Find out more here

Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

If you or someone you know is experiencing violence or abuse, you can:

Call: 1800 737 732

Chat: 1800RESPECT.org.au

Text: 0458 737 732

Available 24/7: Call, text or online chat

Available 9am-midnight AEST, 7 days a week: Video call (no appointment needed)

Crisis support run by and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. A confidential, culturally safe space to yarn about your needs, worries or concerns. Free and confidential service available 24/7 No shame, no judgement, safe place to yarn. We’re here for you

Call: 13 92 76

Chat: 13yarn.org.au

Support Services +

Find below the list of support services that can help you

Support Services
Community Legal Centres

Community Legal Centres specialising in women’s legal issues. Providing women with access to free legal assistance and supports to escape and recover from violence and abuse Find Women’s Legal Services in Your Area – Women’s Legal Services Australia.

Legal Assistance Services

The Attorney General’s Department has a list of legal services across Australia Legal assistance services | Attorney-General's Department

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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.
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.

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Device Safety

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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