Projects we've funded

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.