When women experience family, domestic and sexual violence, about a third reach out for advice and support from their doctor or another health professional. So how can we better equip the health system to respond to violence against women and children?
Our Policy & Advocacy Lead Dr Joyce Chia is in the Power to Persuade blog today analysing the potential of health justice partnerships to strengthen the health system’s capacity for responding to violence.
Health Justice Australia’s submission to the Review of the National Legal Assistance Partnership (NLAP).
Our submission following consultation with the Attorney-General’s Department on the design of legal assistance services.
Our budget proposals are designed to improve health, justice and wellbeing outcomes of individuals and families facing complex health, social and legal need.
Find out what’s in HJA’s 2023-24 pre-Budget submission.
Our submission to the first independent review of Australia’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic drew on our previous work on COVID-19, in collaboration with health and justice practitioners and others, to make recommendations for improving Australia’s resilience to crisis.
We encourage the NSW Government to explore the practice and potential of health justice partnership as part of the early support services provided to children and their families.
We’ve made four recommendations to strengthen the draft National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children.