About
The Yellow Gate
Named The Yellow Gate, with yellow representing sunflowers, positivity and hope. The gate representing change and transition to a new stage of life.
About The Yellow Gate
Our Vision
A southern community where women and families are empowered to live a life free from domestic, family, and sexual violence and provided with opportunities for personal growth and development.
Our Service Model
The core component of The Yellow Gate service model is the “Five Pillars” to build client capacity and empower each person to achieve their goals. The Five Pillars framework is a structured framework that was developed by Beyond DV in Queensland. It includes the following pillars, Health and Wellbeing, Social Connection, Housing, Legal, and Finance.
The National Plan
End Violence Against Women and Children
As an organisation we are committed to implementing actions around The National Plan to end violence against women and children 2022-2032, which is the overarching national policy framework that will guide actions towards ending violence against women and children over the next 10 years.
The National Plan is a federal and state government initiative which outlines what must happen across the four domains of domestic, family, and sexual violence to achieve the vision of ending violence in one generation. Our service response in the broader system of initiatives and policies working to end violence against women and children, is aligned with two focus areas, Prevention and Recovery.
For clarification on the position of the Yellow Gate within the four domains, refer to the provided definitions.
Prevention
Prevention means stopping violence from occurring, by addressing its underlying drivers. This requires changing the social conditions that contribute to violence, and reforming the institutions and systems that excuse, justify or even promote such violence.
Early Intervention
Early intervention also known as ‘secondary prevention’, aims to identify and support individuals and families experiencing, or at risk of, violence. By intervening early, we can prevent violence from escalating, protect victim-survivors, and reduce the likelihood of it reoccurring.
Response
Response refers to efforts and programs used to address existing violence. It includes services specialising in crisis risk assessment and safety planning, accommodation, counselling, financial, legal or medical assistance as well as police and justice responses, family law services and perpetrator interventions. Also known as ‘tertiary prevention’, these efforts aim to prevent the reoccurrence of violence by supporting victim-survivors and holding perpetrators of violence to account.
Recovery
Recovery refers to the ongoing process that aims to assist victim-survivors by supporting them to be safe, healthy, and resilient. Recovery services address the financial, social, psychological, and physical impacts of violence. Recovery helps to break the cycle of violence and reduce the risk of re-traumatisation. Recovery also relates to the broader rebuilding of a victim-survivor’s life and ability to return to the workplace and community, obtain financial independence, and economic security.