Projects we've funded

Build the organisation’s data capability to more consistently collect, understand and use data to better understand impact for clients and ensure services are identifying and meeting legal needs.

Develop and trial various methods for collecting data about renter’s experience of services and what effect it has had on their legal outcomes. Findings will be used to refine and redesign services to help renters achieve better outcomes.

Provide specialist migration legal assistance to young people to help them obtain citizenship and overcome barriers to education that contribute to disengagement and social inequity.

Address gaps in knowledge about the unmet legal and support needs of women who have involvement with child protection and in the criminal justice system. Building on previous work examining issues such as maintaining contact and participating in child protection processes for women in the community, this phase focuses on women in custody to inform system improvements and better outcomes.

Design and trial a Police Accountability Worker Intake and Advice Line to help legal assistance lawyers and community workers respond to police misconduct. The initiative aims to build sector capacity and improve support for individuals experiencing police accountability issues.

Investigate the use and regulation of crowd control weapons by police. The project is in response to increasing police powers against peaceful protesters, and escalating use of crowd control weapons.

In partnership with Windermere and Each, the project will review data and experiences collected from clients impacted by disasters to better understand the extent of unmet legal and related need.

In partnership with Consumer Policy Research Centre, the research will investigate the complaints process for Victorians to resolve goods and services disputes at VCAT. Research findings and recommendations will be used to influence reforms to enable more Victorians to resolve consumer legal matters.

In partnership with inTouch Multicultural Centre Against Family Violence, this research will examine migrant and refugee Muslim women’s experiences with legal services in family violence matters. Insights from interviews and focus groups will inform recommendations for system change to improve outcomes for culturally diverse victim-survivors.

Development of a multilingual triage and referral tool to help culturally and linguistically diverse Victorians navigate the legal system

Developing resources to empower migrant sex workers to understand and assert their legal rights.

Continuation of the Sex Worker Legal Program which provides legal assistance, education and advocacy so that current and future Victorian sex workers can live and work in a society that respects and upholds their human and legal rights.

This project will deliver legal education on citizenship to migrant and refugee high school students to improve access to tertiary education support and opportunities.

To scope an online tool aimed at increasing the number of people who can access support for debt waivers.

To develop and publish legal toolkit to equip Victorian lawyers with human rights, health and wellbeing arguments to effectively represent pregnant women and mothers who are incarcerated or at risk of imprisonment.

Replication of a public awareness campaign, Ask for a lawyer, in the Northern Grampians region to improve legal responses to family violence.

A tool to support bicultural workers, paralegals, and administration staff in identifying and triaging legal inquiries.

Digital educational resource to increase secondary school students’ literacy on common youth law issues to make learning about the law fun and engaging using relatable stories.

Improving course materials and exploring how to best collaborate with past participants through volunteering. Focusing on women with experience of family violence and disadvantage, as well as First Nations women, women from CALD backgrounds and recent arrivals.

Funding for interpreters and translators at the Citizenship Clinic, providing legal advice and assistance to vulnerable permanent residents to apply to become Australian citizens.

Provide legal assistance, support and information for Self-Represented Litigants involved in intervention orders in Melbourne and Geelong.

Community legal education resources for fines and infringements that use game play as an informative and engaging medium for building the legal capacity of legal and non-legal practitioners in community service organisations.

Provide advice and assistance to young workers in casual employment to apply to convert to ongoing employment under the new changes in the Closing Loopholes legislation.

Two resources for migrant and refugee women facing coercive control (CC) including translation into 12 languages. One to assist professionals, and one to help women recognise and seek support.