2008/11/30

A crossroad moment for SSDAG

After the loss of key funding, we need your help

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.

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