WESNET allocated $500,000 in funding grants to 22 projects across Australia in mid 2008 to trial and test innovative approaches to prevention and early intervention in domestic and family violence.
Projects
WESNET has received a Government grant under the 2007-08 Women's Leadership and Development Program to refurbish its website and create a new forum for its members to discuss issues relating to prevention and elimination of violence.
WESNET Committee members attended training in Sydney on 27 March to learn how to use the new content management system that underpins the new website. From now on, WESNET can control and update its own content.
All Publications
Sep 2009
The new Rudd Labor Government’s approach to domestic/family violence and homelessness has the capacity to radically address decades of neglect in these fields. This paper explores the potential impact of the Homelessness White Paper and the National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women. In particular it examines what impact the new approach may have on the incidence of domestic/family violence and the demand for crisis accommodation. It also discusses the impacts on the specialist service provider sector and what risks may need to be addressed.
Sep 2009
Please use this nomination form if you wish to nominate for one of the Committee positions up for election in November 2009.
Sep 2009
Download this form if you wish to complete the multiple user registration for the Virtual WESNET online forum.
Feb 2009
Annual Report for the Women's Services Network for the 2007-08 financial year.
Dec 2007
Annual Report for the Women's Services Network for the 2006-07 financial year.
Dec 2006
Annual Report for the Women's Services Network for the 2005-06 financial year.
Feb 2006
The WESNET Committee has made it a priority to respond to the issue of perpetrator programs. This is an issue which for ten years now has been of great interest and concern to women’s services, and which has seen a real growth in programs and policies. In 1996 the National Forum on Domestic Violence hosted by the Commonwealth Office of the Status of Women made a series of recommendations regarding perpetrator programs. It is timely that women’s services nationally make some comment.
Feb 2006
WESNET has an ethical sponsorship policy to ensure that sponsorship received by WESNET is ethical. We will only accept funding from organisations that promote and practise a work environment that is free from sexism, racism, homophobia or any other form of employee oppression.
