In 2019 WIRE established an innovative project designed to assist family violence victim-survivors to gain and maintain paid work; the Sustainable and Transformative Employment Pathways (STEP) project.
The project was established with support from CommBank Next Chapter, which aims to address financial abuse for their customers and the community.
It was found that existing job seeker programs did not address barriers that victim survivors encounter while job seeking and trying to stay in employment and that an opportunity existed to create a more effective and supportive program, using understandings and best practice approaches from family violence work.
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