Legal Centre Resources

Legal resources and information for clients, the family violence sector, and the community.

What is the Financial Assistance Scheme (FAS)?

The Financial Assistance Scheme, or FAS, can assist you to recover from violence through financial assistance for related costs.

The Financial Assistance Scheme (FAS): Documents you might need

A guide to the documents that a victim-survivor of family violence may need when applying for the Financial Assistance Scheme (FAS).

Understanding Coercive Control- Simple English Guide for Migrant and Refugee Women

Explaining coercive control in simple English for migrant and refugee women experiencing family violence.

Understanding Coercive Control- Comprehensive Guide for Family Violence Service Providers

A guide for professionals supporting migrant and refugee victim-survivors of family violence. Includes strategies for identifying coercive control, culturally sensitive intervention, tools for supporting women effectively, and information on the specific expressions of coercive control in these communities.

inTouch Women’s Legal Centre Information and Referral Guide

About our Legal Centre, what we do, who we support, and our referral process.

inTouch Women’s Legal Centre Principles for Service and Guidelines

Who we help and how we prioritise our clients and services.

Legal Professionals: Good Practice When Working with Clients from Migrant and Refugee Backgrounds

Tips for working with interpreters and integrating culturally tailored, intersectional methods and reflections into your legal practice.

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We acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong/Boon Wurrung people as the traditional owners and custodians of the land on which we work and live. We pay our respect to their Elders – past and present. We express our gratitude for the sharing of this land, our sorrow for the personal, spiritual and cultural costs of that sharing and hope that we may move forward together in harmony and in the spirit of healing.

We also acknowledge the countless women who have experienced family violence, in particular women from migrant and refugee backgrounds. We recognise the courageous path they have travelled to rebuild their lives and honour their stories which continue to inspire and drive our work.

Diversity is an integral part of inTouch’s history and identity. We value and celebrate all forms of diversity across culture, ethnicity, language, sexuality and gender expression.