QCOSS will work with domestic and family violence services to establish an independent peak body. The DFV peak will be a member-based organisation, representing domestic and family violence services in Queensland.
Domestic violence victims are increasingly being forced to stay in dangerous situations because of the housing crisis, with some moving more than 1,000km away to find suitable housing and support.
Queensland’s community sector works to improve the quality of life of people accessing their services, as well as the wider community, holding crucial keys to unlocking the state’s full potential for growth and prosperity.
All of us have a role in stepping up and speaking out to ensure that ourstate is a place of respect and equality, regardless of our ethnic, racial, religious or cultural backgrounds and beliefs.
The framework found in Queensland’s Human Rights Act should be applied to strategies to designed to improve the safety of women, including responding to coercive control.
This QCOSS guide provides an outline on how to engage and work with interpreters in cases of domestic and family violence, and sexual assault. [...]
