Every day, migrant and refugee women, often with their children, contact intouch Multicultural Centre Against Family Violence for support to address the impacts of family violence and rebuild their lives safely.
For many, leaving or recovering from violence is made harder by language barriers, visa insecurity, cultural isolation and limited understanding of their rights in Australia. For women with children, these challenges are even more complex as they navigate safety, stability and wellbeing not only for themselves but their families. Without specialist, culturally responsive support, these women can be left with nowhere to turn.
For more than 40 years, intouch has provided specialist, culturally responsive family violence services to migrant and refugee communities across Victoria, helping them find safety, stability and hope for the future.
Demand for our services continues to grow alongside Victoria's multicultural population.
Just last year alone:
We delivered more than 31,000 hours of specialist support to 1,345 women, from 107 countries and speaking 84 languages.
We provided legal assistance to 634 migrant and refugee women across family violence, family law and migration matters.
We worked with 83 migrant and refugee men who were held accountable to their use of family violence through our behaviour change program.
Your donation will help continue our work operationally to support women in violence and the recovery of survivor-advocates. Together, we can help women rebuild their lives free from violence.
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Intouch acknowledges that we work on the traditional lands and waters of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all First Nations people we work with. We acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded — not in battle and not in peace. This always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land. As a multicultural organisation, we acknowledge that many of us came to this land seeking safety and opportunity. Yet we recognise that First Peoples still do not experience the safety, justice and equality that others came here to find. First Peoples have been subjected to and continue to be subjected to invasion, dispossession, acts of genocide and injustice — and as migrants and descendants of migrants, we benefit from that injustice. As an organisation working to address family violence and challenge systems of oppression impacting migrant and refugee communities, we recognise that our efforts for justice and safety take place within a broader context of colonisation. We acknowledge that the racism and discrimination experienced by First Peoples is unique, and that the disproportionate representation of family and domestic violence in First Nations communities is a result of destruction of land, culture and community. Our role and responsibility is not to stay silent but to speak truth.
Every day, migrant and refugee women, often with their children, contact intouch Multicultural Centre Against Family Violence for support to address the impacts of family violence and rebuild their lives safely.
For many, leaving or recovering from violence is made harder by language barriers, visa insecurity, cultural isolation and limited understanding of their rights in Australia. For women with children, these challenges are even more complex as they navigate safety, stability and wellbeing not only for themselves but their families. Without specialist, culturally responsive support, these women can be left with nowhere to turn.
For more than 40 years, intouch has provided specialist, culturally responsive family violence services to migrant and refugee communities across Victoria, helping them find safety, stability and hope for the future.
Demand for our services continues to grow alongside Victoria's multicultural population.
Just last year alone:
We delivered more than 31,000 hours of specialist support to 1,345 women, from 107 countries and speaking 84 languages.
We provided legal assistance to 634 migrant and refugee women across family violence, family law and migration matters.
We worked with 83 migrant and refugee men who were held accountable to their use of family violence through our behaviour change program.
Your donation will help continue our work operationally to support women in violence and the recovery of survivor-advocates. Together, we can help women rebuild their lives free from violence.
Yes
Yes, as soon as your donation is processed.
Intouch acknowledges that we work on the traditional lands and waters of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all First Nations people we work with. We acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded — not in battle and not in peace. This always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land. As a multicultural organisation, we acknowledge that many of us came to this land seeking safety and opportunity. Yet we recognise that First Peoples still do not experience the safety, justice and equality that others came here to find. First Peoples have been subjected to and continue to be subjected to invasion, dispossession, acts of genocide and injustice — and as migrants and descendants of migrants, we benefit from that injustice. As an organisation working to address family violence and challenge systems of oppression impacting migrant and refugee communities, we recognise that our efforts for justice and safety take place within a broader context of colonisation. We acknowledge that the racism and discrimination experienced by First Peoples is unique, and that the disproportionate representation of family and domestic violence in First Nations communities is a result of destruction of land, culture and community. Our role and responsibility is not to stay silent but to speak truth.
