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The Family & Domestic Violence Legal Health Check

About the Family and Domestic Violence Legal Health Check Tool

Women experiencing family and domestic violence report an average of 20 different legal problems, which can greatly impact on their social and physical wellbeing. Having access to legal assistance before problems escalate makes a positive difference to people’s lives.

The Family & Domestic Violence Legal Health Check & Referral Pathway project aims to assist women experiencing family and domestic violence to access early legal support and help community legal centres support more clients and reduce unmet legal need.

Community Legal WA, in partnership with Community Legal Centres, are offering Family & Domestic Violence Legal Health Check training workshops to community organisations.

Community workers play a critical role in connecting family and domestic violence survivors with legal help. When community workers are trained to identify their clients’ legal issues and refer them to legal services, women experiencing family and domestic violence have increased access to justice and better legal, social and wellbeing outcomes.  

The Legal Health Check, designed for family and domestic violence situations, is a simple tool for community workers. The tool helps them ask the right questions to identify legal issues and all the legal services the individual might need, to guide the right referral pathway for the client to receive legal help.

We strongly recommend community workers attend a Legal Health Check Workshop before using the Legal Health Check Tool.  

Enquire here about a Legal Health Check Workshop

More information about Tool:

  • About the Family & Domestic Violence Legal Health Check
  • Tool Family and Domestic Violence Legal Health Check: 
    Download the form and fill out Word PDF
  • Referring to a Community Legal Centre
  • How to Assist Clients with Legal Issues 
  • What is Family & Domestic Violence? 
  • Download the posters to remind service providers to use the Legal Health Check:
    Could your client be experiencing legal issues and need legal advice?
    Are you using the Family & Domestic Violence Legal Health Check? 

Family & Domestic Violence Resources: 

In an emergency, or if you or someone you know is in immediate danger, call the police now on 000.

If it is not an emergency, these resources are available: 

  • 24-hour helplines (compiled by Department of Communities)
  • Family and Domestic Violence Services and Resources (compiled by Department of Communities)

This project is funded by the Department of Communities under the National Partnership Agreement on COVID-19 Domestic and Family Violence Response.

Published: 23rd November, 2021

Updated: 10th June, 2022

Author: Catrina Campbell-Fraser

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