PURPOSE AND HISTORY Sexual Assault Awareness Month runs for the month of April. It is a time for raising awareness of sexual violence and the harm it causes, of the support available to victim survivors and their loved ones and of the change that is urgently needed to build a world free from sexual violence. […]
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Older people experience sexual violence, but it is rarely reported. Ageism is one of the drivers of violence against older people. Ageist assumptions include beliefs that older people do not have sex or that they lack capacity to make decisions. The Aged Care Royal Commission found that there is a high level of sexual abuse
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Today, we have released our top five priorities for this month’s state budget. . Sexual violence is prevalent in Victoria, with the Victorian Crime Statistics Agency publishing an increase of 18.5% in sexual offence reports last year. Frontline services are grappling with rising cases of technology-facilitated sexual violence and non-fatal strangulation, particularly among children and
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This Sexual Assault Awareness Month, we’re calling on the Victorian Government to invest in rights, recovery and respect for survivors of sexual violence at the upcoming Victorian state budget on 20 May. As part of our campaign, we’re calling for funding for frontline specialist sexual assault services. Our frontline workers provide highly specialised, life-changing support
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This Sexual Assault Awareness Month, we’re calling on the Victorian Government to invest in rights, recovery and respect for survivors of sexual violence in the upcoming Victorian state budget on 20 May. As part of our campaign, we’re calling for greater investment in survivors’ recovery. Sexual violence can undermine survivors’ self-perceptions, relationships and their sense
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Today is the first day of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Sexual violence is harmful, pervasive and preventable. Its impacts are felt across the whole community. The level of sexual violence in our communities remains unacceptable with the latest Victorian crime statistics showing that sexual offence reports has increased by 18.5% in the last year. SASVic
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A new campaign from Victoria’s peak body for specialist sexual assault services will call on the Victorian Government to invest in rights, recovery and respect for survivors of sexual violence. The campaign comes at a time that the sector is meeting increasing demand and a “funding cliff”. SASVic is calling for $12.7 million for urgent
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Today, the National Association of Services Against Sexual Violence (NASASV) joined the National Alliance of DFV Specialist Services – representing more than 200 specialist service providers, thousands of frontline workers and others working to end domestic, family and sexual violence across the country – to meet with Zoe Daniel MP, alongside other MPs and Senators
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The government has made a commitment to deliver a funding package on women’s safety and freedom. Action on sexual violence is well overdue and this funding package could make a real difference. SASVic are calling on the government to:
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The peak body for specialist sexual assault services in Victoria, SASVic, is raising the alarm on the unacceptable level of sexual violence in the community and calling on the state government to fund a long overdue sexual violence strategy in next month’s budget 9,537 sexual offences were reported in 2023 – that’s 26 sexual offences a
