If you are in danger call 000
Call Mary’s House Services 1800 002 111
24hr Domestic Violence NSW help line 1800 65 64 63
Lifeline call 13 11 14
At Mary’s House Services, we provide immediate critical care, safety, and shelter, and then access to legal and financial services and support, plus evidence-based therapeutic and wellbeing programs to women with varying and complex needs.
Need assistance? Call 1800 002 111
Need assistance? Call 1800 002 111
Domestic violence is most commonly understood to be violence and abuse perpetrated by a man upon his intimate partner. This understanding and definition is supported by the extensive body of research conducted over the last 50 years, primarily in North America and the United Kingdom.
Domestic violence may sometimes be referred to as intimate partner violence. In the overwhelming majority of incidents domestic violence is perpetrated by a man against a woman. Domestic violence also occurs in LGBTQIA+ relationships.
The term, ‘family violence,’ has also been used to refer to domestic violence, for example, in Australian family law and immigration law, although the strict definition of family violence incorporates violence and abuse occurring within a broad range of intrafamilial and kinship relationships, thus blurring the intrinsic nature and dynamics of the relationship of trust and intimacy and therefore its complexity.
Domestic violence occurs across all cultural and socio-economic groups.
At Mary’s House Services, we provide immediate critical care, safety, and shelter, and then access to legal and financial services and support to women and families that are victims of domestic violence.
With your help, we can empower women and their children to recover and rebuild their lives - and you will also be helping us to save lives.
Our Chief Executive Officer, Yvette, spoke with Studio Ten. Thank you to the team at Paramount for providing us the opportunity to speak to the community about domestic and family violence.
Through our outreach service the Daisy Centre, Mary's House Services offers women who have experienced domestic and family violence, a suite of programs, advice clinics and tailored casework services.
Some of the activities for community clients running at the Daisy Centre this term include:
We are proud to partner with a number of organisation in our mission to offer hope, compassion and safety to women and children who have experienced domestic violence and abuse.
“I had no idea the people at Mary’s House would be the core of my new village, gently carrying me along in a piece of cotton wool through the process.”
Emma, Mary's House Services client
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