As part of Central West Women’s Health Centre’s conference “Empower Responses: Empower Community”, Stepping Out is running training in Bathurst on Thursday 10th April from 9.30am to 11.15am. Tickets are only $10 and our Board member, Jess Hill, will be speaking. Our training is for NDIS support workers and service providers on trauma-informed responses to…

So very grateful to be announced as the Westfield Burwood Local Hero and to accept a grant of $20,000. Thank you so much to @westfieldburwood for a beautiful presentation and for your generous and ongoing support for the community sector. Huge thanks to those who voted to support our small charity. This will allow us to continue…

You may have noticed the beautiful artwork adorning our website and strategic plan. This is a conscious decision to use art instead of stock photos to represent childhood sexual abuse (CSA) with its warm colours, blurred lines and moody, misty quality which conveys the sense of drifting invisibility often felt by survivors. We have Justine…

Stepping Out would love to hear about your experiences with NDIS as a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. This would involve a confidential and trauma-informed chat with a specialist counsellor for 30-60 minutes either in person (in Sydney) or over Zoom. We are offering a gift voucher for your time and expertise. Please contact us…

Stepping Out was proud to represent CSA survivors today at NSW Health’s forum for the implementation of their Adult Survivors Program with the theme of “Building Connections”. Lived experience advocates including Rochelle Cherry, along with Darren Wagner, spoke of challenges in accessing healthcare as survivors. Their advice? Be kind, be flexible, listen and don’t judge…

Coercive control is now a crime in NSW, a powerful shift in narrative from single incidents of abuse to the establishment of patterns of abusive behaviours which, cumulatively, rob victim-survivors of their autonomy and independence. Also known as “intimate terrorism”, coercive control is a significant predictor of intimate partner homicide. This is great news for…