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SAFER Resource for your church
SAFER is a brand new online resource produced to help churches support and prioritise victims of domestic and family violence, and know how to deal with perpetrators.
Read moreWomen and children are wildly over-represented as victims of domestic violence in Australian society.
Common Grace longs for all households and churches to be places of nurture, safety and healing, and where violence against women and children is eliminated. But the reality is, far too many of our relationships are not only broken, but are experienced as coercive, oppressive, manipulative and abusive. For far too long, too many men have been raised to believe that they are entitled to dominate and have power over others, especially women, in both private and public settings.
While there has been many improvements in the prevention of violence against women, including a significant reduction in intimate-partner homicide in the last 30 years, and the majority of Australians agree that gender equality is important (Our Watch, Tracking Progress in Prevention), we know there is still a long way to go in our homes, churches and wider society.
Domestic and Family Violence remains a national epidemic.
Women and victim-survivors bear the brunt of the cost of Domestic and Family Violence.
And the church, not immune to this cultural norm, can be a place that either perpetuates and harbours violence against women or can be instrumental in offering justice, healing and transformation.
When churches were only beginning to uncover the extent of intimate partner violence that was occurring in our society and churches, Common Grace began equipping churches, leaders, and victim-survivors to better understand, identify and respond to domestic and family violence through a free online resource called SAFER.
The need for a continued and wide-scale societal transformation is clear. Common Grace believes that the call to obey and follow Jesus is to embody his love for justice, and to speak into this transformation both in the contexts of the church and wider society. The church can and should be a place of safety for all people, and a voice bringing good news for those who suffer oppression of any sort.
SAFER is a brand new online resource produced to help churches support and prioritise victims of domestic and family violence, and know how to deal with perpetrators.
Read moreLet your loving generosity be a gift of safety and inclusion for women. Your support will help pursue a world where all households and churches are places of love, safety and healing.
Make a donationWe are thrilled to announce the appointment of Ellaina Welsman as the new Domestic and Family Violence Justice Coordinator. Ellaina is deeply passionate about seeing churches commit to and make steps towards ending violence against women.
Read moreThe following Domestic and Family Violence support services are available: