Our work drawing on research, lived experience, and practice insights to inform government policy, strengthen services and systems, and advocate for meaningful change.
We advocate for a coordinated national approach to complex trauma recovery, aligning existing reforms to improve wellbeing, strengthen services and support long-term healing for people affected by childhood adversity.
We call for Redress Support Services to be extended beyond 2028 to ensure survivors continue to receive specialist support as significant application backlogs and complex cases remain unresolved.
We support a focus on functional impairment rather than diagnosis alone but recommends that the future access process assesses both capacity and real-world performance.
We call for stronger trauma-informed systems, measurable recovery outcomes and coordinated national action to support the long-term healing of victim-survivors of violence.
We recommend strengthening survivor recovery and healing through improved workforce capability, trauma-informed services, lived experience leadership and greater accountability across national reforms.
Blue Knot Foundation respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the Lands on which we work and pay respect to First Nations peoples and their Elders past and present. We acknowledge their strength and resilience and are honoured to journey with them on the path to healing and reconciliation. Please be aware that this website may contain the names, images and voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who may now be deceased.
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