Domestic Violence Against Women: Services and Programs Provided by Women’s Health & Family Services and AWAVA

This article discusses the services and programs provided by Women’s Health & Family Services and AWAVA to help counter domestic violence against women. It also includes a SWOT analysis of both organizations.

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Contents
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................3
BODY........................................................................................................................................4
Gender based understanding of violence................................................................................4
Advocating for social change.................................................................................................4
A strategy which is based on best/good customs and countrywide values.............................5
Provision of Holistic service..................................................................................................6
Provision of counselling services...........................................................................................6
Advocating for family disagreement resolution.....................................................................7
SWOT ANALYSIS....................................................................................................................7
Strengths of AWAVA............................................................................................................7
Weaknesses of AWAVA........................................................................................................8
Opportunities for AWAVA......................................................................................................8
Threats to AWAVA................................................................................................................9
Strengths of Women’s Health & Family Services organization............................................9
Weaknesses of Women’s Health & Family Services organization........................................9
Opportunities........................................................................................................................10
Threats..................................................................................................................................10
CONCLUSION........................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES.........................................................................................................................12

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INTRODUCTION
Women’s Health & Family Services is a non profit civil service that has specialised in the
safety of women, including giving a hand in solving domestic violence facing women in the
society (Harris, Loxton, Wigginton & Lucke 2015). Their services and programs are
available to all women from Western Australia and their families with considerations made
for the unique wants of Aboriginal (Rowlands, Loxton, Dobson & Mishra 2015). The
organisation is structured as follows;
 Division of congress health service- is in charge of conveying all customer services.
 Division of Congress Public Health Services- participates in general wellbeing
exercises to address the basic social and financial determinants of wellbeing.
 Division of Human Resources- is in charge of enlisting and building up a protected,
skilled and safe workforce.
 Division of Congress Business Services- strengthens Congress to convey consistently
and high-quality improving primary health care provisions to individuals by dealing with the
organization’s accounts, records, data innovation and resources.
Another organization providing services to domestically violated women is The Australian
Women Against Violence Alliance (AWAVA). It is among the six national alliances
providing services to women and it is funded by the Australian Government and friends of
AWAVA. Its role is to ensure that the voice of women, particularly those from marginalised
regions of Australia is heard by the Government therefore curbing domestic violence
(Gissane & Andrew 2017). The structure of AWAVA is guided by three main principles,
inclusivity and diversity, equity framework and promotion of human rights.

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BODY
AWAVA has put the following approaches in practice to help in reducing domestic
violence against women;
Gender based understanding of violence
AWAVA perceives that endeavours to end hostility against ladies must be responsible to
ladies and advance women’s social gender equality and empowerment. At the centre of
essential counteractive action projects and activities should be a thought of gender when
inspecting the causal variables that add to brutality against ladies. AWAVA perceives that
gender inequality orientation imbalance is both an outcome of and a reinforcer of the power
difference between genders (Alsaba & Kapilashrami 2016). Studies by the United Nations
Development Fund for Women, demonstrates that as equality between men and women
improves, the prevelence of viciousness against ladies is lower. Nations with more prominent
equity among ladies and men will in general have lower levels of violence.
Advocating for social change
AWAVA affiliate Organization, the Association of Women's Educators (AWE) wish to
feature that approaches of education, incorporating the National Curriculum, so as to be
comparable with the National Plan to lessen aggression against women, ought to be educated
by the existing studies and advance social and gender equity understandings, for tending to
the constraining gendered convictions, frames of mind and practices of youngsters. This is a
key system for accomplishment in tutoring, and more extensive social alteration (Turner
2017).

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A strategy which is based on best/good customs and countrywide values
In May 2008, AWAVA directed office, the Women's Services Network (WESNET) dealt
with a Capacity Building awards program in the interest of the Federal Government. The
venture looked for applications from Service Providers to put together their ability to help
casualties of household and family viciousness within a timely prevention and intervention
agenda to improve the capacity of programs and projects that capitalize on the security of
women and the responsibility of culprits (Neiva 2016). WESNET suggested the following
indicators for determining excellent practice based on timely prevention and intervention
plans for home based viciousness;
 Projects and programs that lead to long haul modification in information, for instance
of lawful/human rights, an expanded comprehension of the idea of domestic and family
viciousness and that it is never the victim’s fault.
 Projects and programs that exhibit clear proof of ladies from underestimated
gatherings partaking in exercises – especially ladies who may connect domestic violence with
disgrace.
 Programs and Projects that gauge achievement dependent on practicality of access
instead of span of access.
Programs and services offered by Women’s Health & Family Services to help counter
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Provision of Holistic service
Incorporates early intervention and prevention. The organisation believes that reduction of
domestic violence incidences can be achieved through taking early action, including
educating women, in particular high risk groups (Bowstead 2017). Sources of domestic
violence are related to each other and often share widespread threatening factors which if
countered in the premature phases have the ability of minimizing severe results of domestic
violence against women.
Provision of counselling services
Most of the counselling programs are conducted face to face. Some are also offered
through telephone communication for the victims who might be found in remote areas (Rivas
et al 2016). Relationship and family counselling can be effective through;
 Asking those involved in the violence how they feel about each other and how they
understand the relationship they are currently in.
 Remember why they were attracted to each other in the beginning.
 Put into consideration how each party add to the present relationship

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Advocating for family disagreement resolution
This is a procedure where whenever conflict arises in a family, the husband and the wife
are encouraged to talk to each other about what is of more significant to them and how to
make verdicts applicable to resolving their disagreement. Mediation helps in preventing
women domestic violence though helping those involved to settle their differences without
one party ending up being abused (Burke & Goldman 2015).
AWAVA and Women’s Health & Family Services serve women social needs both at
macro and meso-levels. In marco-level analysis is used to look at the society at large while
meso-level incorporates the studying institutions, communities and groups. Both
organisations have cut across all these social components to address women domestic
violence.
SWOT ANALYSIS
Strengths of AWAVA
 Working with NCE closely on primary avoidance studies, for example offering
support to the advocacy of the sector on a nationwide structure for anticipation.
 Has engaged in activities that hold up accountability of men around domestic women
violation.
 Financing mitigation activities including innovative grassroots programs, pilots and
small projects.
 Taking part in activities that discourage reoccurrence of hostility.
 They have sponsored the sector events relating to gender based violence.

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 Saddling the training insight of the residential, family brutality, and rape sectors,
lawful administrations, and ladies' wellbeing divisions and supporting them to do and
additionally record imaginative and innovative thoughts for early intercession and
counteractive action exercises (Aldashev, Marini & Verdier 2015).
Weaknesses of AWAVA
 Founder micromanagement
 Overworking of members due to lack of enough members
 Lack of enough public scrutiny
Opportunities for AWAVA
 A closer commitment with the Sector, for example supporting for the long haul
financing of Sector based essential aversion tasks and programs and guaranteeing that
financing is economical.
 Fortifying the significance of structural and gender imbalance. This should be
strengthened as a causal system to comprehend savagery against ladies and advancing
substantive correspondence while upholding for the disposal of brutality.
 Fortifying the significance of anticipation projects and tasks consenting to pertinent
National norms.
 In close coordinated effort with the NCE, supporting aversion program and venture
assessment to add to the proof base and to take into project and program improvement and
development.

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Threats to AWAVA
 Lack of funds- sometimes donor funds from the government is not enough for
AWAVA to effectively carry out its duties. Some donors or sponsors also
sometimes take too long to release their funds.
 Volunteer and staffing challenges
 Software and technology concerns
Strengths of Women’s Health & Family Services organization
 They have developed community workshops.
 Availed education for professionals.
 They have also incorporated adolescent programs for the youngsters in the society.
 Managed to get more funders to help overcome financing problems, e.g.360 health
and community, Western Australian Mental Health Commission and WA Primary Health
Services.
Weaknesses of Women’s Health & Family Services organization
 Additional administrative expenditures to be put in consideration.
 An ever-lasting decreasing role of founders of the organization.
 Subjection of salaries to income tax.
 Founder micromanagement

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Opportunities
 Escalating demand in face of economic and demographic changes. There has been
continued shift concerning human capital along with changing demographics of those serving
and the served.
 Human resource- there has been increased human resource for Women's Health &
Family Services organization due to support from volunteers. This allows them to further
improve service delivery and attract more women who need help with domestic violence
related cases.
 Better visibility- mission of the organization will be far-reaching with the ability to
share information at the speed of lightning.
Threats
 Difficulty of funding- there has been diminishing aid from the government.
 Lack of accurate budgeting and stable income.
 Demands from different people to show results.
 An increased need for limited services.
 Risky growth- On the other side, regardless of whether your charitable organization
gets enough financing to serve every one of the individuals it needs, draws in the correct
ability, and figures out how to turn a little benefit, growth remain to be precarious (Bryson
2018). Normally, that financing isn't ensured, and the staff isn't contracted to remain, so
placing cash into development is a bet.

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CONCLUSION
Hostility against women is a big social issue in Australia. About two million women are
abused annually. The results of this viciousness against ladies might last long. The violence
often results to physical damage and sickness, mental indications, and, in extraordinary cases
of death. We should all appreciate the efforts of non-profit organizations in the provision of
services to women who have experienced domestic violence and support them today, and in
the coming days with all that they may need to ensure that their activities are smoothly run
for quality service delivery.

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