Activity details
Improving access to safe and stable housing for women and children escaping family and domestic violence through the delivery of new refuges in Perth, Katanning, and Leonora, continued support for Munda Mia, the expansion of existing facilities, and increased funding for all refuge and safe house providers.
Implementation progress update
Crisis accommodation for victim-survivors of family and domestic violence.
Since 2017, crisis accommodation capacity for victim-survivors of family and domestic violence has increased by 40 per cent. Building on this, further 88 accommodation rooms or units are to be delivered over the next 4 years. Over the last 2 years, this has included:
- the opening of 2 new refuges in the Perth metropolitan (Zonta and Ruah Community Services)
- continued funding for Munda Mia, a therapeutic intervention for women escaping violence with co-occurring alcohol and other drug issues
- establishment of two new regional refuges in Katanning and Leonora, and
- the expansion of a number of existing refuges.
All organisations providing refuge and safe houses services have also been supported through a funding uplift.
More information
- Learn about the National Plan to End Violence against women and children 2022-2032.
- Read the First Action Plan 2023-2027.
- Browse the First Action Plan 2023-2027 Activities Addendum update.