Liberty celebrates, respects and values the worth of every Australian. We understand how intersectionality impacts on a woman or child’s experience of domestic and family violence, and their specific and unique support needs.
We are improving our cultural awareness and service to Aboriginal families, who make up more than half of our transitional housing clients and a quarter of crisis accommodation clients. To improve our performance against the standards of the Community Housing for Aboriginal People Strategy, we have:
Signed and adopted the Redressing Aboriginal Homelessness Accord
Implemented cultural awareness training for our team
Built our Indigenous networks and established the Liberty-led ‘Joining the Dots’ Aboriginal network
Established two Aboriginal positions and employed an Aboriginal work placement student
Increased our involvement in NAIDOC community celebrations and the local Aboriginal Women’s Festival
Working on our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan
Liberty has joined ACON’s Pride in Diversity LGBTIQ social inclusion program for workplaces and committed to:
Liberty has partnered with People with Disability Australia for the ‘Building Access’ project, which aims to increase the accessibility of DFV services for women and children with disability. So far we have:
Undertaken an accessibility audit with PWDA
Commenced work on a Disability Inclusion Action Plan
Joined the PWDA Community of Practice