ABOUT INSIGHT EXCHANGE
Insight Exchange centres on the expertise of people with lived experiences of domestic, family and sexualised violence and gives voice to these experiences. It is designed to inform and strengthen social, service and systemic responses.
Insight Exchange provides free (donated) information, insights and reflection materials to people in any community, service or system.
Insight Exchange contains de-identified descriptions of people’s lived experience of violence and abuse. The insights have been shared to inform social, service and system responses. Our thanks to every person who contributed insights for the benefit of many.
We understand that lived and living experiences can never be fully represented in language or any other form.
The insights revealed in Insight Exchange materials are not representative of all people, families or communities. Women and girls are disproportionately impacted by violence and abuse. The use of gendered terms reflect the descriptions directly used in the insights featured.
Meet the team
Meet the Insight Exchange team.
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Strategy
This Insight Exchange Strategic Framework sets the vision, purpose, scope, inputs, outputs, outcomes and accountabilities for the Insight Exchange work.
Engagement
Engagement Reporting is designed to share with participants and the public a picture of responses to the lived experience insights and materials. Engagement Reporting is published each financial year providing a snapshot of engagement.
Updates
When new information, initiatives or insights are available these will be introduced through the Insight Exchange updates.
Using Insight Exchange
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Browse the insights and materials
Listening - Listening to lived experience insights is essential. The insights include victims’ experiences of, responses to, and resistance against violence and abuse.
Exploring - Individually and collectively, we can listen to and be led by victim-survivors’ insights and experiences of violence and abuse.
Responding - Our response to listening to lived expertise is what makes the difference – socially and systemically.
Learning - Individually and collectively we can build on our understanding to inform our responses to domestic, family and sexualised violence.
Participating - There are several ways you can participate in Insight Exchange at your lead.
All people, families and communities are worthy of dignity, respect and safety.
We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which our work and services operate and pay our respects to Elders past and present. We acknowledge that the sovereignty of this land was never ceded. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land. We extend this respect to all First Nations peoples across the country and the world. We acknowledge and stand against the widespread racist and sexist attitudes that embolden perpetrators of violence and abuse to target Aboriginal women, children and communities. We acknowledge and remember all first nations people in Australia and across the world, who are disproportionality subjected to state oppression, racism, colonialism and interpersonal violence including extreme physical violence resulting in harm, injury, disability or death. We also acknowledge First Nations peoples ongoing responses and resistance to colonisation and racism. We acknowledge and remember missing and murdered First Nations women and children.
“All people have the right to live and grow in healthy and safe homes and communities, free from the threat of violence, abuse and discrimination.”
Wiyi Yani U Thangani (Women’s Voices): Securing Our Rights, Securing Our Future Report, Australian Human Rights Commission 2020 p 131 Retrieved from: Australian Human Rights Commission: http://www.humanrights.gov.au/about/publications/.
Insight Exchange is an initiative of Domestic Violence Service Management (DVSM) a registered charity (ABN 26 165 400 635). Insight Exchange has been sustained through the generous donations of individuals for the benefit of many. Donations to the work of Insight Exchange are tax deductible and can be made directly. To make a direct payment simply reach out to the Insight Exchange team or us the Insight Exchange Contact Us page.