Ending Coercive Control & Family Violence WA

Building a coordinated response to coercive control and family violence

The Ending Coercive Control and Family Violence WA Conference comes at a critical time as systems across justice, health and community services are being challenged to move beyond incident-based responses and properly recognise patterns of coercive control. Despite growing policy reform, services continue to miss psychological abuse, post-separation escalation, financial entrapment and tech-facilitated control with significant risks of misidentification and uneven outcomes, particularly for First Nations women and children.

This conference is a must-attend for attendees to explore what is failing in current systems and what it will take to build a genuinely coordinated, culturally safe and trauma-informed response across courts, policing, DFV, housing and child protection. Through cross-sector panels, lived experience voices and practical case-based discussions, the conference will focus on shifting from fragmented responses to integrated systems that can identify and respond to coercive control in practice.

This event is relevant for

Relevant for representatives from the NGO Community, Government, Police & Justice sectors, with roles & responsibilities including:

• Family & Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Services
• Women’s Services, Shelters & Refuges
• Police, Courts, Justice & Legal Services
• Child Protection, Youth & Family Services
• First Nations Community-Controlled Organisations
• CALD, Refugee & Migration Services
• Housing, Homelessness & Crisis Support
• Mental Health, Alcohol & Other Drugs, and Therapeutic Services
• Men’s Behaviour Change & Perpetrator Intervention
• Health, Hospital & Primary Care Networks
• Policy, Advocacy & Systems Reform
• Lived Experience, Community Leadership & Advocacy