Our Purpose
Our Vision
Our Vision is of a gender-equal Australia where:
- Women are free of abuse that undermines their economic safety
- Women are able to access opportunities to (re)establish, maintain and build economic safety
- The caring and protection of children, and other dependents, is supported and valued
Mission
The Centre for Women’s Economic Safety Ltd (CWES) exists to support women experiencing, at risk of experiencing, or recovering from economic abuse in the context of domestic and family violence.
Our Aims
- Assist women experiencing economic abuse by connecting them with appropriate information, services and assistance to support their economic safety.
- Reduce the impact of economic abuse on victim-survivors by sharing their lived experiences to improve social, service and system responses to it.
Our Approach
Building on the approach developed by Domestic Violence Service Management’s initiative, Insight Exchange, the Centre for Women’s Economic Safety is guided by the expertise of women with lived experiences of economic abuse and disadvantage to inform its advocacy.
The Centre for Women’s Economic Safety acknowledges that people of all genders, cultures, sexualities, abilities, and socio-economic status can and do experience family violence and similarly, that it can be perpetrated by anyone and happen anywhere. We recognise that women, non-binary and gender-diverse people, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, and women with a disability experience higher rates of family violence. Our focus on women is an acknowledgment of the disproportionate rate at which women experience abuse and of the structural economic disadvantages women face, that compounds suffering and reduces options.
Get Help
If you're worried you might be experiencing economic abuse, or you’re concerned about someone else, please explore the CWES Financial Safety site for information and services that may be able to help.