NSW Sexual Violence Project Fund

ACON’s Sexual Violence Consult Service aims to foster safer, more inclusive spaces for LGBTQ+ people who have experienced sexual violence. NSW Service Providers can access for free:

• 1 on 1 consults
• Organisational and policy reviews
• All staff training.

The project will also develop LGBTQ+ Inclusive and Affirming Practice Guidelines.

For more information, visit the Say it out Loud website.

Hayat Amina (Safe Life) in Australia

A suite of co-designed and evidence based early intervention group programs and multimedia resources for Arabic speaking refugee and refugee like communities across the lifespan of late adolescence and adulthood.

These interventions and related resources will equip people from Arabic speaking refugee and refugee like backgrounds to:

• navigate new conceptual and legislative frameworks for understanding and identifying sexual violence in NSW.
• anticipate & reduce the risk of sexual violence occurring against their families, support networks and communities.
• support practical skills and help seeking strategies to reduce the risk of and respond to sexual violence within their families, support networks and communities.

Group programs will be piloted and evaluated across Southwest and Western Sydney.

For more information, visit the STARTTS website. 

Co-designed training package for sexual assault services to recognise and respond to the specific needs of older women.

For more information, visit the Hear Our Voices webpage.

Develop an online hub of culturally tailored response/survival support for victims of sexual violence within CALD communities. 

For more information, visit the We Are Survivors website.

A capacity building project for workers to identify the early signs of child sexual exploitation and develop strategies and resources to prevent escalation and further sexual harm. This will be done through a online training platform.                                                      

With the project focus being on peer to peer abuse through social media apps, resources will be created that support the child or young person impacted by CSE, as well as resources for those around them who are supporting them (such as friends and parents).

For more information, visit the Rosie’s Place website.

A training program and resource development to upskill staff to respond safely to disclosures of sexual violence from culturally diverse clients.

For more information, visit the SSI website.

Awareness education, peer-informed and accessible resources for people with disability and an evidence-based training program for disability support workers. 

For more information, visit the Northcott website.

Design and deliver community educational resources/sessions which will provide critical information, awareness, support and referrals to Aboriginal women and children, community workers/services across NSW

For more information, visit the Wirringa Baiya Aboriginal Women’s Legal Centre website.

Co-create with leading researchers, pilot and evaluate innovative educational programs that can be implemented at scale to combat reductive norms that diminish all young people.

For more information, visit the Consent Labs website.

A Trauma Responsive Love Bites Facilitator Training Program informed by research from ACU and the voices of young people, including survivors of sexual violence.

Aims to build the capability of targeted NSW rural/ regional/ metro workforces engaging with CYP who have experienced sexual violence, to reduce their vulnerability to further abuse. Community stakeholders participating in the project will benefit from:

1. Facilitator training in the Trauma Responsive Love Bites program.
2. Access to six on demand, Tuned In Child Safe Facilitation Modules developed in partnership with ICPS.
3. Professional development post training for staff through participation in virtual Communities of Practice.

For more information, visit the NAPCAN website. 

Build workforce capacity in the women’s health sector to recognise and respond to non-fatal strangulation, sexual choking, and acquired brain injury. This will be achieved through training, developing supporting resources, and building referral pathways across NSW that include NGOs, justice and primary health sectors, simultaneously developing the ability of these sectors to better respond to these issues as well.

For more information, visit the It Left No Marks website, which includes a range of resources developed under the project.

Project will provide education packages to Northern NSW workers to effectively provide early intervention to people at risk of sexual violence and improve community networks and information on sexual violence. The project will also develop a First Nations-specific version of the training, as well as developing the material into self-paced online training.

For more information, visit the Women Up North website

Scoping, developing and implementing a coordinated access system for women and children who have experienced power-based personal violence including sexual violence in Albury. 

For more information, visit the Yes Unlimited website.

TACCT will provide evidence-based training to the NSW youth sector and youth specialist homelessness services to build their capacity to respond to children and young people (12-25 years) experiencing domestic, family and sexual violence. 

For more information, visit the Youth off the Streets website.