SSDAG'S VISION
To live in a society that values and promotes healthy personal and family relationships for all the community.
Important Notice
SSDAG Needs Your Help in 2009
It has been a difficult year for the SSDAG board, and with no funding beyond Dec 09, we are now re-evaluating our position. Our most recent evaluation has made clear that in WA there are currently no DSG domestic abuse support services funded by the WA government.Domestic abuse is difficult and emotional for the entire WA community, but for the diverse sexuality and gender (DSG) community it may well be more so. SSDAG believe that everyone deserves the same equality and access to support for domestic abuse regardless of their sexuality or gender. WA will remain a state without equitable support for a section of the community that experiences the same rates of domestic abuse as the broader community.
We ask for your support beyond our current funding to sustain our endeavours to ensure that the DSG community has substantively the same access to domestic abuse support services that are afforded to the broader community. SSDAG needs the DSG community to take a far more active role in advocating for itself. We need people to take a stand and join us. To be a member/supporter of SSDAG you do not need to work in or to have had personal experience of domestic violence. The only requirement is that you believe that the DSG community should have fair and equal services.
Mark Ravenscroft
Chairperson - SSDAG
UPDATES: AUGUST 2009
New SSDAG website in development
We are currently in the process of redesigning the SSDAG website. Please continue to send us your feedback and enquiries via our Contact page. Any suggestions and recommendations (including services, links and resources) from you, will be very much appreciated. We think the new site will make it easier for you to find the information you need. Contact Us to learn more.
Survey completed
We have completed the SSDAG survey and are currently analysing the results. Your participation has been greatly appreciated. We understand that it is not easy to come forward, even in an online survey, and answer difficult questions. Thank You.
SSDAG evaluation report launch
SSDAG have also completed an important evaluation of its work and will be launching this in 2009. This evaluation, on the effectiveness of same-sex domestic abuse training among Perth's community/domestic violence services (DV), has helped SSDAG to better understand what is needed to improve the actual deliveryof services to the DSG community. Please contact the Chairperson to learn more about this report.SSDAG'S VISION
To live in a society that values and promotes healthy personal and family relationships for all the community.
SSDAG'S MISSION
- To advocate on behalf of the diverse sexualities and/or gender community to obtain government and wider community recognition and support of diverse sexualities and/or gender family and domestic abuse issues
- To educate and support service providers about issues that relate to diverse sexualities and/or gender family and domestic abuse
- To advocate for diverse sexualities and/or gender specific services where appropriate
- To inform / support and educate the diverse sexualities and/or gender community about diverse sexualities and/or gender family and domestic abuse
SSDAG'S GUIDING PRINCIPLES
- All physical violence is abuse but not all abuse is physically violent
- SSDAG respects the uniqueness of all individuals and their right to the relationships and families that they form
- SSDAG respects the diversity of all the community regardless of sexuality and/or gender
- SSDAG acknowledges all the history of the original family and domestic violence field and places at equal level and value the issues of the diverse sexualities and gender community
- SSDAG believes that family and domestic abuse is not sexuality or gender based
