Strengthen crisis and medium-term accommodation-based interventions

Victoria funds accommodation-based perpetrator interventions for people who use family violence who have been excluded from the family home due to their violence. These programs aim to reduce the risk of people who use violence returning to the family home. These programs enable victim-survivors, including children and young people, to remain safely in their homes, knowing the person who uses violence is engaged in the specialist service system.

These programs include:

• The Men’s Accommodation and Counselling Service, which provides short-term accommodation and family violence counselling to men excluded from the family home.
• The Place for Change program, which provides medium-term accommodation and specialist support to people who have used family violence and who have been excluded from the family home. Participants within this program are also supported to address their use of alcohol and other drugs, engage with mental health supports and strengthen their support networks. The program operates across 5 sites within Victoria.