Published May 2025
ARISE Foundation: Empowerment through employment
This learning community will focus on sharing knowledge and practices to enable recovery, healing and financial independence for survivors of Domestic and Family Violence (DFV).
About the learning community
This learning community will bring together peer learning groups representing diverse perspectives and experiences related to employment support for survivors of DFV. It will share insights and learnings to help build the capability of the Australian social enterprise sector, as it relates to barriers to employment for this cohort of job seekers.
Support for survivors of family and domestic violence is critical at crisis stage and beyond crisis stage. Survivors of financial abuse face many challenges in the road to sustainable recovery - with poor credit scores, low financial literacy, and inconsistent employment histories acting as barriers to their financial security and freedom. There remains a systemic gap and identified need for effective support to create financial independence pathways for DFV survivors.
About the convenor
Arise Foundation was founded in 2021 with the purpose to empower female survivors of DFV towards achieving sustained financial independence. Arise Foundation offers education and employment pathways, job placement, wrap-around support, financial assistance and counsel, and advocacy services to help survivors of DFV pursue their aspirations for a brighter future.
How will this learning community work?
It will consist of 6 online meetings, each with a different group of people who are involved in helping survivors of domestic and family violence (DFV).
The goal is to hear from different perspectives about how to better support DFV survivors and find ways to work together to improve job opportunities for them.
Each meeting will include 10–20 people from one of the following stakeholder groups:
- DFV survivors
- Recruitment agencies
- Employers
- Government workers and researchers who design DFV support programs
- Not-for-profit and social enterprise organisations
- ARISE facilitators (people helping run this program)
Dates and times will be shared in June 2025, and the sessions will happen sometime between August 2025 and April 2026.
How to get involved
If you are from one of the above stakeholder groups and are interested in joining an online peer-learning discussion to share your insights and ideas, please contact Shey.h@arisefoundation.org.au.
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