The Office of the Coordinator-General for Family Safety has developed a new ‘hub’ to come up with fresh and innovative solutions for families impacted by domestic, family and intimate partner violence.
Set up as a network for collaborating on better responses to the issues, the hub will bring together people with expertise to find and test potential new solutions.
Announcing the initiative, the Minister for the Prevention of Domestic and Family Violence, Yvette Berry said the Family Safety Hub would act as a central avenue to bring the right people together to develop new solutions.
Ms Berry said it would also design, trial and test the ideas before allowing for them to be scaled-up and merged into the existing service system.
“The hub was developed through a 12-month co-design process which involved more than 50 service providers, as well as 20 people with lived experience of domestic and family violence,” Ms Berry said
“Through the co-design process we heard that some people were incredibly isolated and many sought help through trusted relationships. This means that the whole service system, including the education, health and legal sectors, needs to be able to respond to domestic and family violence.”
She said the people involved in setting up the hub had heard that it would not be used if it didn’t offer different, more flexible supports to the ones currently available.
“Each year the hub will work through a series of ‘Challenges’,” the Minister said.
“The best ideas from these Challenges will be further developed and tested with the community. The ideas that show the most potential will be scaled-up and embedded across the service system,” she said.
“In this way, the hub will help create change by bringing together the right people to problem-solve how we might do things differently.”
The hub factsheet can be accessed at this PS News link and the 110-page report on insights from the co-design process can be accessed at this PS News link.
The 34-page design report can be accessed at this PS News link.
