The Leaving Violence Program is not a crisis service. If you’re in immediate danger, call 000
Need support to
leave a
relationship?
The Leaving Violence Program can provide financial and other support to help you leave a partner who uses violence.
Eligible victim-survivors can get up to $5,000, including up to $1,500 in cash or equivalent and the remaining funds in goods and services. Other supports include safety planning, risk assessment and referrals to other essential services for up to 12 weeks.
The Leaving Violence Program is not a crisis support service.
on the 1st July 2025
- Victim-survivor of IPV
Must be leaving or planning to leave a violent intimate partner relationship. - Age Requirement
Must be 18 years or older. - Residency
Must reside in Australia and hold valid citizenship, permanent residency, or a temporary visa (excluding visitor visas). - Financial Hardship
Must demonstrate financial distress, such as difficulty affording essential needs. - Recent or Planned Change in Living Arrangements Must have experienced a change due to IPV in the past 12 weeks or have an active plan to leave, supported by a safety plan.
- Payment Restrictions – Cannot have received payments from the program or related trials in the past 12 months.
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The Leaving Violence Program
Intimate partner violence can be:
- physical, verbal or sexual abuse
- emotional, spiritual or psychological abuse
- financial abuse
- threatening, coercive, or seeking to control or dominate the other person.
This might include:
- furniture or white goods
- short-term accommodation
- clothes, food, medicines
- medical or counselling needs
- school or education costs
- relocation and transport
- paying bond or rent
- fixing a car
The Leaving Violence Program team can work with you for up to 12 weeks, if needed, to provide other support.
This can include things like:
- completing a risk assessment
- working with you to develop a safety plan
- setting up a safe bank account
- referring you to other relevant services, such as psychological and financial counselling, legal assistance, health services, or family, domestic and sexual violence specialist services.
Who is eligible for support through the Leaving Violence Program?
- are experiencing intimate partner violence, and
- have changed, or have been planning to change, your living arrangements in the past 12 weeks because of the intimate partner violence. For example, you have left your shared home, or your partner has left or been excluded from the shared home, or you have a plan, or want help to make a plan, to leave a partner who uses violence and change your living arrangement.
To be eligible, you must also:
- be 18 years and over, and
- be experiencing financial stress (e.g. having difficulty accessing money or paying bills), and
- be living in Australia as either an Australian citizen, permanent resident or temporary visa holder, and
- have not received the payment in the last 12 months (includes: Leaving Violence Program payment, Escaping Violence Payment (EVP) Trial; or the Temporary Visa Holders Experiencing Violence Pilot (TVP) payment. The program is open to people of any gender or sexuality.
2 Dora Street,
Broome WA 6725
08 9194 4800
Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services (KAMS)
The trial will focus on services for First Nations victim-survivors and is under the National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children 2022-32.
