Countering Violent Extremism Support Services in NSW

Posters providing contact details for domestic violence services

The City with Domestic Violence NSW have produced the attached Feel Safe in Your Own Home poster to inform people where help is available, should they or someone they know need it.

Domestic and family violence is a serious and prevalent problem in Australia. Support is available and it can also be prevented. Covid-19 restrictions have made it more challenging for people who have experienced domestic and family violence at home to access help and support. With restrictions easing more people maybe able to reach out.

Copies of the poster are also attached in Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Indonesian, Korean, Spanish, Thai, and Russian.

Other resources

Helpful advice is available on the NSW Department of Communities and Justice website for people, including you and your colleagues, wanting to help someone who has disclosed that they have experienced family and domestic violence.

The City’s Domestic violence is a crime booklet is a guide for people who are experiencing or are supporting people who have experienced domestic and family violence. This includes information in community languages and lists of local, state and national services that can help.

Furthermore, Our Watch is the national leader in the primary prevention of violence against women and children in Australia, and their website includes information on respectful relationships education and bystander videos including the series Doing nothing does harm.

Support

The following support services are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week:

1800 RESPECT – 1800 737 732 – National Sexual Assault Domestic and Family Violence Counselling Service

NSW Domestic Violence Line – 1800 65 64 63 – for referral or information about NSW domestic violence (including accommodation and legal) support services

Men’s Referral Service – 1300 766 491 – for men (and friends and family of men) who recognise that their behaviour is causing problems in their relationships.

Youth Worker Position

A Youth Worker position with Wollongong Flexible Learning Centre is now open for applications.

Details

• Position: Youth Worker
• Location: Wollongong NSW (Illawarra region)
• Status: Full-time, on-going
• Commencement: Term 1, 2022
• Applications close 5:00pm, Thursday 9 December 2021

For further information, please contact Atesh Maharaj, Head of Campus with Wollongong FLC

Our Community and Salesforce.org are joining forces to discover just how digitally fit (or unfit!) the community sector is. 

Join us for an introductory session that will look at digital maturity, and help inform future training and resources from Salesforce.org and Our Community.

Introductory session: How’s your digital fitness?​

The not-for-profit sector is incredibly diverse, and so are its digital capabilities. Most organisations founded since 2000 were born digital, while older ones have had to make greater adaptations over time.

No matter when and how your organisation started – and no matter whether your staff are Boomers or Gen X, Y, or Zers – digital fitness is an ongoing process. ICDA’s recent COVID-19 Community Sector Impact Survey found 64% of Australian not-for-profits planned further investment in digital technology this year.

Getting digitally fit doesn’t require new staff, expensive contractors or fancy software, but it does require attention from your whole team.

For any organisation thinking about digital transformation, the process will throw up some important questions:

• Do we have to do this?
• How do we start?
• Where should we be focusing our energy to get the biggest payoff?

Join Clare Carmody, success manager at Salesforce.org, and Denis Moriarty, group managing director at Our Community, for a 20-minute discovery chat that will introduce you to the eight domains of digital maturity. Following the session, all participants will receive access to free resources so you can work out where you are already digitally fit and where you need to focus your efforts.

This introductory session will lay the foundations for further digital training by Salesforce.org and Our Community. Don’t miss out!

This webinar will be recorded, and a copy will be sent out to every registrant. If you cannot make the live webinar but would like to watch the recording, simply register as usual and you will receive your copy via email later that day.

Date: Tuesday 9 November, 2021
Time: 3:30pm-4:00pm AEDT
Cost: Free!

Ability Groupwork

All these groups are online and FREE:

www.relationshipsnsw.org.au/relationship-education-programs/living-with-disability

Groups include:

• 24/7 LOVE – Care for Carers; Wed 22nd Sept – Wed 10rd Nov, 11-12:30pm
• Feeling GREAT About ME – for people living with disability & for people caring for somebody living with disability; Mon 18th Oct – Mon 22nd Nov, 5:45-7:15pm
• Sex, Love & Dating for All Men (Cis and Trans) & Non-Binary People; Tues 2nd Nov – Tues 7th Dec, 11-12:30pm
• Sex, Love & Dating for All Women (Cis and Trans) & Non-Binary People; Tues 2nd Nov – Tues 7th Dec, 11-12:30pm

SCAM ALERT: ‘COVIDsafe’ and proof of vaccination

Please be aware of the latest scam SMS targeting Australia.

The SMS may appear to be sent from ‘COVIDsafe’ or ‘BeCOVIDsafe’. It shows something similar to; “Your digital version of COVID-19 Passport is available at XXXXXXXXXXX”.

The link in the SMS will direct to a malicious website that offers a ‘COVID vaccination certificate’, requesting a small payment for issuing the certificate. This is an attempt by scammers to steal the individual’s personal and banking information.

If you or a customer have received this SMS please delete it immediately. Do not click the link.

Important facts to know:

• – You will never pay for services related to their Services Australia held accounts or records, including for COVID 19 vaccination certificates or assistance with myGov.
• – Services Australia will never send a text message to a customer that includes a link.
• – All customers can obtain their COVID 19 proof of vaccination via Service Australia’s secure channels.
• – If a customer advises they have fallen victim to this scam, they can contact our Scams and Identity Theft Helpdesk on 1800 941 126.

To find out what we know about the latest scams, please visit the Services Australia website and type ‘scams’ in the search bar.