As an innovative and evidence-based model of care, the Women’s Trauma Recovery Centre will be a world first, transforming response and recovery services for victim/survivors of sexual, domestic and family violence. The Centre is a financially attractive, economically feasible, and strategic investment. I

The Centre is an Australia first initiative of the Illawarra Women’s Health Centre. Underpinned by the research from UNSW, it is community-led and co-designed with women with lived experience, professional experts and service providers and will:

˸ be an integrated, specialised, and dedicated service, offering individualised multidisciplinary and multisectoral wrap-around support to women, as needed over their lifespan.
˸ comprehensively address the impacts of domestic and family violence, to improve long-term health and psychosocial outcomes for women and families, including breaking the cycles of ongoing exposure to violence, and intergenerational trauma.
˸ provide opportunities for research partnerships to lead recovery responses to domestic and family violence.
˸ be an evidence-based model of care that can be replicated and scaled up across Australia.