Lismore MP Janelle Saffin has welcomed a total of over $1.27 million in funding for three new programs under the NSW Government’s Primary Prevention Multi-Year Partnerships Grant Program.

Locally, the recipients are:

• $750,000 for the Men & Family Centre Lismore’s Accountable, Respectful, Connected Gender Relations Program, addressing the underlying causes of Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence and promotes more accountable, respectful and connected gender relations in our local communities.
• $305,592 for Prosper (Project Australia) Incorporated’s Strong Safe Fabulous Program (in partnership with Rainbow Families), delivering in-person and online training, resources, behaviour change campaigns and individual/family/sector capacity building in Lismore, Sydney, Penrith/Blue Mountains and Wollongong.
• $265,907 for People With Disability Australia’s Healthy Relationships Program, updating and expanding training and resources about building and sustaining healthy relationships for people with disability, their families, and support networks in Tweed Shire, Sydney, Wollongong, Central West, Hunter, and Wagga Wagga.  

Ms Saffin said the NSW Government was investing nearly $5.2 million in 11 new programs statewide in a whole-of-government, whole-of-community effort to change attitudes and behaviours that tolerate or condone violence against women.

Programs will focus on men and boys, children and young people, multicultural and refugee communities, LGBTIQ+ communities, and those working with First Nations communities.

The grant program is delivered under Pathways to Prevention: NSW Strategy for the Prevention of Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence 2024–2028, the state’s first dedicated strategy for primary prevention.

Primary prevention is part of a wider NSW Government effort to address domestic violence, which includes supporting victim-survivors, holding perpetrators to account and earlier intervention.