Past projects for victims of crime
Victims Services Building Capacity Funding Program funds short-term projects that identify and meet a gap in support for victims of crime, their families and friends.
The funding program has been available annually since 2009.
This page provides information about projects we have previously funded.
2022–24
WWILD – Sexual Violence Prevention (SVP) Association
Received $68,511 (excluding GST) to recruit 2 workers, including a peer worker who identifies as having an intellectual disability. Their role is to build ongoing relationships with 3 specialist domestic and family violence (DFV) services to improve the accessibility of each service and its ability to respond to the needs of women who have an intellectual disability and experience DFV.
PACT
Received $39,500 (excluding GST) for a project to recreate existing child, teenager and adult educational resources on giving evidence for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander victims and witnesses. The project will create new online education that can be discreetly accessed by anyone and from anywhere to help adult victims and witnesses find the information and support they need.
The resources will be created in close consultation with experts from within the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community who can accurately represent the voices of the Indigenous population and provide clear information and advice.
True Relationships and Reproductive Health
Received $43,580 (excluding GST) to carry out a project to convert a room at the Cairns Sexual Assault Service (CSAS) office on Grafton Street into a safe and supportive victim survivor interview room where police can attend and take statements.
CSAS therapists responding to crisis calls will be better able to support those who experience sexual assault and wish to report the crime while their statements are taken by police.
2019–20
Bravehearts Foundation Ltd.
Received $30,470 to deliver a 3-day specialist child sexual assault and exploitation masterclass in Toowoomba, Mackay and Rockhampton, providing high-level specialised skills development to 20 practitioners in each location.
The project aims to provide Allied Health Professionals who work with children and families who have experienced child sexual assault and exploitation with a strong foundation in working with this vulnerable population in these targeted regions.
Australian Dental Health Foundation
Received $40,000 to build the network of volunteers who provide dental services to individuals and families impacted by domestic violence who have experienced dental trauma and/or ongoing oral health problems.
They also developed an information booklet to provide guidance to dental practitioners on best practice processes for working with victims of domestic violence.
2018–19
Gold Coast Centre Against Sexual Violence
Received $45,171 for the Elder Sexual Abuse Project to develop an elder sexual abuse training package, including:
- development of information resources for older women, their family and friends, and the general community
- training for workers to build the capacity of community workers to recognise, respond and refer in relation to elder sexual abuse.
Community Legal Centres Queensland
Received $31,000 for the Domestic Violence Best Practice Training Program, which will deliver:
- a 1-year training program comprising of 12 online webinars
- a written Domestic Violence Best Practice Toolkit
- establish a Domestic Violence Peer Network Program.
2017–18
Multicultural Families Organisation
Received $26,000 to build the capacity of mainstream domestic violence services and the community to support culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) victims of domestic violence in South East Queensland by:
- training multilingual volunteers to help CALD women escape domestic violence
- providing cross-cultural training to existing mainstream domestic violence services, refuge staff and police.
Domestic Violence Prevention Centre (Gold Coast)
Received $22,000 to deliver a symposium for services in South East Queensland. The symposium will consider the significant post-separation risks to women and children who have experienced domestic and family violence.
Brisbane Rape & Incest Survivors Support Centre (BRISSC)
Received $38,000 to build the capacity of generalist workers and community leaders to respond effectively to the issue of sexual violence in the south-west Brisbane region, covering 32 suburbs.
2016–17
Cape York/Gulf Remote Area Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Child Care (RAATSICC) Advisory Association Inc
Received $74,250 to deliver a package of workshops and resources to help Far North Queensland Indigenous communities build practical strategies and effective localised responses to help victims of crime.
Court Network Inc
Received $60,500 to develop and deliver an outreach model to offer court support for victims, before, during and after court attendance in the regional areas of Sunshine Coast and Gympie, using internet technologies, telecommunication and partnerships with local providers.
yourtown
Received $11,000 to deliver a symposium for practitioners from the Combined Women’s Refuge Group and regional domestic violence services across south-east Queensland.
The symposium discussed how to respond to the needs of children (0–5 years) affected by trauma and attachment difficulties resulting from exposure to domestic and family violence.
2015–16
Nundah Community Support Group Inc.
Received $50,000 to train and build networks for up to 30 generalist workers in north Brisbane to respond effectively to survivors of sexual violence.
Gold Coast Centre Against Sexual Violence Inc.
Received $46,620 to train 50 community workers in North and South-East Queensland to recognise and respond to intimate partner sexual violence.
Working Alongside People with Intellectual and Learning Disabilities: Sexual Violence Prevention Association Inc.
Received $60,120 to develop online modality for training and professional development of workers from all over Queensland, particularly in remote, rural and regional areas to respond to people with an intellectual disability who have experienced criminal victimisation.
Tablelands Rape and Incest Crisis Centre
Received $35,100 to provide accredited training for 25 community workers from the Atherton Tablelands and surrounds for working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander victims who have experienced sexual assault.
2014–15
Phoenix House Association Inc
Received $75,000 to provide nationally accredited training for up to 25 Queensland-based Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community workers. This enables them to provide high quality, culturally appropriate support and to improve access to services for traumatised members of their communities where sexual and/or family violence has been experienced.
Relationships Australia (Qld)
Received $25,000 to expand the existing Victims Counselling Support Service. This service provides counselling support for victims of violent crime across Queensland through the development of online counselling capability. Included purchase of software licenses and professional services for the development of web front end and application.
2013–14
Save the Children Australia
Received $50,000 to train community workers in Brisbane, Townsville and surrounding areas. They have a positive discipline program for parents who are victims of domestic and family violence.
Palm Beach Neighbourhood Centre
Received $50,000 to train community agencies across the Gold Coast to support victims of crime who are at risk of getting into financial problems because of trauma related to their injuries.
2012–13
Protect All Children Today
Received $10,000 to develop culturally appropriate court support for children and young people who are required to give evidence at court as victims or witnesses to a crime. Operates throughout Thursday Island and the Torres Strait.
Bravehearts
Received $90,000 to run 10 practitioner workshops for professionals working with children and young people who had experienced sexual assault.
2011–12
Centacare: Catholic Diocese of Rockhampton
Received $22,000 to develop and deliver a training program for volunteers in Bundaberg and Mackay to provide support during court and rehabilitation.
Bravehearts
Received $12,660 to provide volunteers with specialist training to support adult survivors of child sexual assault through court processes around Brisbane and Southport.
Family Planning Queensland
Received $65,340 to build the capacity of service providers and community to respond to sexual assault in Yarrabah. The strategies aimed to improve services in the Yarrabah community and provide information for sexual assault services on culturally appropriate service delivery for Indigenous communities.
2010–11
Anglicare Southern Queensland
Received $38,000 for the development of resources and professional training in 4 locations to support men who had experienced childhood sexual abuse or assault.
WWILD – SVP Association
Received $62,000 for developing the How to Hear Me free resource kit. The SVP Association worked alongside people with intellectual and learning disabilities to develop the kit. It included a booklet and a DVD on adapting therapeutic techniques to suit the needs of clients with an intellectual disability who had experienced trauma, and could be going through the criminal justice system.
2009–10
Protect All Children Today
Received $100,000 to increase its volunteer base (particularly in regional Queensland) for court support of children and young people giving evidence in the criminal justice system.