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Partner with Safe Steps and Make a Difference

Each year, Safe Steps handles over 130,000 contacts providing urgent support to help people escaping family and domestic violence. The scale of this issue is growing, and the need for help is immediate. By partnering with Safe Steps, your organisation can play a vital role providing life-saving assistance.

Your organisation can join us in making a difference by providing financial donations, nominating Safe Steps as your preferred charity, becoming a brand partner, corporate sponsorships advertising Safe Steps across your workplaces and sector, and through employee engagement programs. Every partnership helps ensure that we continue to offer critical support to those in need, 24/7. Together, we can make a lasting impact on the lives of people experiencing family and domestic violence.

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Donate

All monetary donations are tax deductible and allow us to provide critical support to people experiencing family and domestic violence.

Sponsor

Sponsor a Safe Steps event or initiative to increase your brand’s visibility while helping us deliver essential services.

Volunteer

Donate your organisation’s time or expertise. Safe Steps works with housing providers, construction companies, charities, healthcare providers, community organisations and more.

Engage Safe Steps to Educate your Team

Safe Steps offers resources and talks to inform and inspire action on family and domestic violence. Contact our team to tailor a presentation for your audience.

Raise Awareness

Everyone can raise awareness and help reduce the prevalence of family and domestic violence. Put posters on doors, march with us at rallies, have one of our speakers present at your event.

How Philanthropic Support

Brightened the Lives of Children

In 2023, we met with Stephen, Angela and Danielle Tomisich to explore partnership opportunities through their foundation.

Stephen’s focus on education, Angela’s interest in heritage and education, and their daughter Danielle’s passion for addressing domestic violence quickly led them to identify a shared case: supporting children and young people who had experienced family violence through educational initiatives.

Children experiencing family violence face multiple challenges, including disrupted education which can have long-lasting impacts on their academic progress and overall well-being. To ensure academic development remains consistent and children have access to age-appropriate support whilst in crisis accommodation, Children’s Educational Support Workers are vital.

“We saw the benefit of the Sanctuary Model and the number of children that were coming into crisis and supported accommodation every night. However, Safe Steps is not funded to provide services to the children,” says Stephen Tomisich.

“These disruptions in education set children on a trajectory toward economic exclusion, poorer health, and social outcomes. A supportive, tailored approach is necessary to mitigate these long-term effects. We could see that Sanctuary could offer that.”

Thanks to the Tomisich family’s passion and their belief in our Sanctuary Model, a Children’s Educational Support Worker specifically to support children living in crisis accommodation was employed to deliver targeted well-being and educational support for children at Sanctuary and Virginia’s Place. This initiative has been fundamental in addressing both the academic and emotional needs of the children who stay with us, ensuring they feel supported in their education while simultaneously fostering emotional safety and well-being.

Crisis accommodation is a pivotal point for so many children who have experienced family and domestic violence and the Children’s Educational Support Worker role has essential skills that support children in their first steps toward hope and healing.

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Corporate Social Responsibility

Strengthen Community Relations

Partnering with Safe Steps demonstrates your alignment and pledge to ending a critical societal problem – family and domestic violence. Your organisational commitment to social responsibility and community safety and well-being signals to your partners, staff, and clients that you’re dedicated to supporting a cause that makes a tangible social impact.

Real Impact, Real Change

Your partnership enables Safe Steps to continue offering vital services, such as 24/7 support for all Victorians experiencing family and domestic violence. Your contribution drives meaningful social change, demonstrating the tangible impact of your CSR efforts.

Positive Employee Involvement

Involve your team in meaningful initiatives, from fundraising to volunteering. Whether you’re a keen runner in your midst, or a baker whose morning teas draw people into the kitchen – supporting a common cause does so much more than just raise money, it opens critical conversations and raises much needed awareness.

Helpful Resources and Information

Family and Domestic Violence

Family and domestic violence includes behaviours used to control, intimidate, or harm another person. It takes many forms, from physical and emotional abuse to financial and technological control.

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supporting someone experiencing family violence

How to Support Someone

Supporting someone experiencing family and domestic violence can make a powerful difference. Learn how to listen, provide reassurance, and connect them to resources that offer safety and hope.

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Safety Planning

When experiencing family and domestic violence, having a safety plan helps you to regain control and protect yourself and your family. This includes planning safe ways to leave volatile situations, accessing essential crisis care items, and identifying trusted sources of support to stay safe.

Learn More

Our Supporters

Safe Steps gratefully acknowledges the generous support of our funders, partners and donors, whose contributions allow us to continue providing Victoria’s essential 24/7 crisis response service, offering support and pathways to safety for anyone experiencing family or domestic violence.

We also appreciate and acknowledge the generosity of major donors who choose to remain anonymous.

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AIA Australia

Alannah and Madeline Foundation

Allens

Angie McMahon

Big Group Hug

Brooke–Lynn Foundation

Bunnings Warehouse

Carlton Football Club

Crown Resorts Foundation

Dark Pink

Digital Darksyde Foundation

Frankston North Rotary Club

Jodie Hickey

Justine Dredge

Kmart Maddocks

Marian & E.H. Flack Trust

Marcus Thomas Foundation

Michael Snowden

Naylor Stewart Foundation

Nelson Alexander Charitable Foundation

Next Steps

Nous Group

Ogilvy

Pinchapoo

Play Matters

PN Digital

Australia Regenerate

Respect Victoria

RizeUp

Sandbox Media

Securitas Australia

Share the Dignity

Spring Valley Golf Club

Strategic Project Partners

The Big Red Group

The Chrysalis Foundation

The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia

Thread Together

Tomisich Family

Urbis

180 Degrees Consulting

Victoria Police

Ready to Make a Difference?

Your organisation’s support can make a positive change in the lives of individuals experiencing family and domestic violence. Speak with our partnership team to explore partnership opportunities, learn about our impact, and see how we can collaborate to create a safer future.

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Safe Steps respectfully acknowledges and celebrates the Traditional Owners of the lands throughout Victoria and pays respects to their Elders of past, current and future generations.

Safe Steps is committed to ensuring diversity, inclusion and equity are embedded throughout our organisation for the benefit of our clients and our staff. We are committed to a focus on recognising and eliminating discrimination in the services we deliver. Read our Diversity, Inclusion and Equity Statement here.

Safe Steps is committed to creating and maintaining a Child Safe Organisation; ensuring obligations to meet the Child Safe Standards and Reportable Conduct Scheme requirements, as codified by the Child Wellbeing and Safety Act 2005 (Vic). You can read more about this commitment in our Child Safety and Wellbeing Policy here.

Safe Steps Family Violence Response Centre is supported by the Victorian Government.

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