Projects we've funded

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

Westjustice will conduct research into their legal capability 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.

Develop a ‘Discrimination Claims Self-Representation Kit’ to guide people through the process of running their own legal discrimination claim.

Improve Chinese international students’ understanding of housing rights by translating resources and seeking user insights to improve access to future resources

Sessions to provide information on legal strategies to address unfair and unlawful delays in family reunion visa processing.

A competitive grant program for neighbourhood houses to apply for funds to run events during Victorian Law week in 2023.

The Activist Rights website has recently undergone a significant re-design and update to make it more modern and user friendly.

This project will develop a culturally safe resource that explains what is meant by a conflict of interest in the legal sector for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community.

African-Australian Legal Forum to be held in Footscray on 22nd August 2019 that will discuss the legal issues and community concerns that people from African background have with the Courts.

The project will produce and distribute a series of engaging and informative legal rights messages for a general community broadcasting audience. The short announcements will address issues such as protest rights, renter rights, fines, consumer law and family violence. The content will be tailored to a community radio listening audience.

Community consultation to ensure resources reflect language, terminology and content that meet the needs of First Nations people.

A video project designed to increase awareness and use of the Victorian Charter of Human Rights by showing how it can benefit Victorians.

A community legal education project that aims to build young people’s knowledge of sexual consent and the law through a pleasure framework. The module will focus on healthy, pleasurable and legal sexual relationships between young people. The project will be developed in partnership with GenWest.

Updating two of WIRE’s high distribution information booklets - Separation & Property and Stalking to include changes in legislation, support agency information and accessibility to meet the needs of the audience.