Our Centre
The Illawarra Women’s Trauma Centre us an initiative of the Illawarra Women’s Health Centre and has received $25 million in federal funding for its opening in 2024.
The Centre provides comprehensive and long-term support to women who have experienced domestic, family and sexual violence. Through an innovative wrap-around approach, the Centre will support women to live independent and secure lives for the wellbeing of current and future generations.
The Centre is an Australian-first community-led initiative. It has been co-designed with women with lived experience, professional experts and service providers to ensure the best level of care.
The Women’s Trauma Recovery Centre is an initiative of the Illawarra Women’s Health Centre and has received $25 million in federal funding for its opening in 2024.
Our Design Model
In this report we outline the findings from the co-design process including the core components of the model of care, the principles, and goals of the Centre.
Our business case
In 2020, The NSW Ministry of Health provided funding to develop the business case, for an Illawarra Women’s Trauma Recovery Centre including the in-depth co-design research undertaken by the School of Population Health, University of NSW that informs the operational framework of the Centre.
The concept of Women’s Trauma Recovery Centre is a creative, practical and evidence-based solution to the epidemic of domestic and family violence in Australia. As an innovative model of care, it will transform response and recovery services for victim/survivors of domestic and family violence and has the potential to be rolled out across Australia.
The Centre is an Australia first initiative of the Illawarra Women’s Health Centre. Underpinned by the research, it is community-led and co-designed with women with lived experience, professional experts and service providers and aims to :
– be an integrated, specialised, and dedicated service, offering individualised multidisciplinary and multisectoral wrap-around support to women, as needed over their lifespan.
– comprehensively address the impacts of domestic, family and sexual violence, to improve long-term health and psychosocial outcomes for women and families, including breaking the cycles of ongoing exposure to violence, and intergenerational trauma.
– provide opportunities for research partnerships to lead recovery responses to domestic, family and sexual violence.
– be an evidence-based model of care that can be replicated and scaled up across Australia.
