Projects we've funded

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.

Consultation and case study video creation featuring clients impacted by Consumer issues as part of the developmental process to ensure resources are targeted and appropriate for the communities’ needs.

Plain English and translated resources on the legal rights‍ and responsibilities for parents, especially those from migrant and refugee backgrounds‍ wishing to travel with their children overseas.

A video project and Advocacy Guides designed to increase awareness and use of the Victorian Charter of Human Rights by showing how the Charter benefits people.

Justice Connect offers over 100 digital self-help resources for individuals providing essential legal information to those who might otherwise lack access to legal assistance. ‍This project will design and undertake an evaluation of self-help resources to assess their effectiveness and understand what’s working, for whom, and for which matters.

Building on previous work, Westjustice will identify and investigate correlative patterns between police responses to domestic and family violence and victim-survivor demographic and identity characteristics. Police-authored applications for family violence intervention orders will be analysed in relation to marginalised victim-survivor demographics, including First Nations, migrant, refugee, CALD, LGBTQIA+, and/or those who are regionally located. This is a collaborative project across six Victorian community legal centres and La Trobe University.

Climate disasters, and responses to them, reinforce and exacerbate existing inequities and vulnerabilities, increasing complex legal needs and legal need problem clusters. This research project will explore the longer-term outcomes of renters who are evicted due to climate disasters, refining the role of community legal centres in disaster response spaces and determining whether access to legal information or advice might positively alter outcomes.

This project will focus on building the knowledge and capacity of workers and agencies supporting young people in the out-of-home care system to identify, understand and respond to their unmet civil legal needs.

Enhance data systems to better demonstrate impact, improve decision-making and service design, and meet clients’ needs. The project involves integrating evaluation and reporting mechanisms within existing processes and systems and building staff capability to incorporate these activities into daily workflows.

Villamanta will develop and implement an outcome measurement framework to better understand community need, target those in most need and improve services and impact.

To better support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people navigate the justice system, the Victorian Aboriginal Child and Community Agency and Inner Melbourne Community Legal will collaborate to deliver culturally safe pathways to legal help.

Using findings from its Knowledge Grant research, South-East Monash Legal Service will develop and deliver a legal education program for legal professionals to support the sector to effectively respond to disclosures of reproductive coercive abuse.

The development of tailored legal education materials for community groups and workers in western Victoria to build awareness of family violence and the legal options and other supports available.

A series of legal workshops across the East Gippsland region for frontline family violence and community workers to improve understanding of the legal assistance pathways for clients interacting with family law and associated legal processes.

A community education campaign encouraging people experiencing family violence to seek legal advice from a lawyer.

Translation of information about the service's Sex Worker Legal Program to extend the reach of community legal assistance to this cohort.

For Neighbourhood Houses across Victoria to participate in Law Week 2024

Research into the legal capability of local communities to understand their legal needs and adapt legal services to improve access to the service.

Reproductive coercion and abuse (RCA) is emerging as a critical and under-researched form of family/intimate partner violence. South-East Monash Legal Service seek to better understand RCA in the legal context, and identify effective strategies and interventions to ensure that the legal assistance sector is able to effectively support disclosures of RCA.

This project will enable Tenants Victoria to develop an informed understanding of the legal needs of single-parent renters and identify factors to enhance the impact of its legal assistance service model with this cohort.

This project will build an understanding of the complexities of family dynamics, care arrangements, and family violence. This work aims to build a foundational knowledge base for caregivers, care recipients and multidisciplinary service providers to inform monitoring procedures, preventive interventions, and safety planning.

Legal Forum and Training for frontline workers to better understand jurisdiction complexity and legal assistance pathways for clients with complex and compounding issues.