This will be an in-person and online event - this invitation is for the online event.

The Illawarra Women’s Health Centre, through its major project the Illawarra Women’s Trauma Recovery Centre, and Centre for Women’s Economic Safety (CWES) proudly invite you to the launch of Pathways to Financial Security After Economic Abuse: "It is a Full-time Job".

Join us for an overview of the report and a panel discussion.

About the report

Despite their resourcefulness and resistance to injustice, victim-survivors of economic abuse often find themselves exhausted, disillusioned, frustrated, and poverty-stricken as they navigate inadequate and harmful pathways to financial recovery. There needs to be a better way.

Centring the experiences and solutions of victim-survivors of economic abuse, this report is an urgent call to disrupt and dismantle the obstacles victim survivors face and make critical, evidence-informed changes to create the pathways to financial security that they deserve.

This report outlines the financial security pathways and maps the financial recovery journey of Illawarra-based victim-survivors of economic abuse in three specific cohorts:

Older women
Women with disabilities
Single mothers

Pathways to long-term financial security are brought to life by the words of victim-survivors and professionals who support them, starkly illustrating what is not working and highlighting existing enablers that can be amplified to improve financial security. The report makes a broad range of recommendations across government, community sector, health care and financial and essential services responsibility areas.

This project has been funded by CommBank Next Chapter Innovation, a program supporting innovative responses to financial abuse recovery.