My Support Options

My Support Options

Support Options With Label

Are you experiencing domestic, family and sexualised violence and working? Do you know what workplace support options might be available to you? Making decisions about your next steps relies on knowing what your options are. In some workplaces it can be difficult to find out what support options are available to you and how to access them. 

My Support Options (presented below) is designed to share with you examples of what victim-survivors of domestic, family and sexualised violence have wished for and/or asked for from their workplace.  The options were identified in the publications listed (at the bottom of this page). The support options are ideas not advice. They are not exclusive or exhaustive. 

You can browse through the list at your own pace and decide which (if any) of the options you will search for or ask about in your workplace.

If your workplace doesn't provide the support option/s you need - they may be able to support you with something similar or provide support in how access the option elsewhere.

My Support Options - SQ
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Change my location of work

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Access to a pre-paid/work funded mobile

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No records about DFSV will be stored without my express permission

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Alternative address for mail

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Alternative email address

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Alternative phone number

Support Options - Unique SQ
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Access to secure parking or escorting to/from public transport

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Secure/restricted access to staff areas

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Flexible lunchbreaks

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Change/vary my work start and finish times

Support Options - Now and next SQ
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Change my work hours

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Adjusted /alternative duties

Support Options - Similar SQ
Support Options - My own sense SQ
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A safe/private place to make calls

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A separate work computer to look up information

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A place to securely store documents

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Change of work contact details or visibility of my details  

Support Options - Want to talk SQ
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Safe lockers for storage of personal items  

Support Options - Available through other policies SQ
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Access to emergency funding

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Access to pay in advance

Support Options - Safer short not long term SQ
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Food vouchers

Support Options - Dont want to talk but options useful SQ
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Utility vouchers

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Separating my pay

Support Options - Assist Access SQ
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Resources toward career management/progression

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Domestic and Family Violence Leave (Paid)

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Colleagues I can trust and talk to

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After school space at workplace for children (e.g.to safely complete homework)

Support Options - Uncertain but useful options SQ
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Information on financial hardship supports

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Access to free (violence-informed) counselling

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Information about DFSV support options 

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Legal Assistance

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Information about support options for my children  

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Employee assistance program 

Support Options - Different SQ

Open the support options listed above in PDF format. You can save or print the PDF to keep thinking about what you need now and next. 

You might find it useful to share the options with someone you are safe to talk to, or with someone in your workplace who can clarify which support options are available to you.

My Safety Kit is a reflection resource designed to support people who are, or may be, experiencing domestic and family violence. 

View an introduction to My Safety Kit for people reflecting on their relationships (2.4mins)

Explore more resources on our Workplace Responses landing page.

References:

Examples of support options (above) are drawn from lived experience insights in the following sources:

Our thanks extend to people with lived experience who contributed to these reports and the people and organisations who undertook this work for the benefit of many.

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