If you are currently in an emergency situation call the Police on 000.

If you or a family member or friend are experiencing domestic and family violence, please call us on (07) 3217 2544.

This is our 24/7 phone number and we can direct your call to the appropriate BDVS Service.

Brisbane Domestic Violence Service (BDVS) is committed to supporting Brisbane women and children, to ensure they feel safe and free from fear of domestic and family violence.

We are the first port of call for woman and children experiencing or at risk of experiencing domestic and family violence.

BDVS is an activity of Micah Projects.

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Phone (07) 3217 2544 24 hours | 7 days a week
Fax (07) 3013 6090
Email (non-urgent) bdvs@micahprojects.org.au
PO Box 3449 South Brisbane Q 4101
bdvs.org.au

For a list of our services including contact information and referral forms (for referring agencies only), see the sections below.

BDVS Safer Lives Mobile Service

Brisbane Domestic Violence Service (BDVS) Safer Lives Mobile Service (SLMS) provides a 24 hour service to assist people in crisis in the Brisbane region. The service is part of an integrated response to domestic and family violence in Brisbane.

SLMS works in partnership with DV Connect, a 24 hour crisis service supporting women and children to access safety in refuge, Queensland Police Service and Queensland Health. The purpose of SLMS is to actively engage with women and children who have experienced domestic violence in the Brisbane City Council region and assist them to explore their options considering safety and risk.

Phone (07) 3217 2544 24 hours | 7 days a week
Fax (07) 3013 6090
Email (non-urgent) bdvs@micahprojects.org.au
PO Box 3449 South Brisbane Q 4101
bdvs.org.au

BDVS Safer Lives Mobile Service can assist with:

• information and advice
• safety planning and assessment
• advocacy and support
• safety assessments of your home
• practical safety upgrades to your home
• emergency relief
• technology and digital safety advice.

This is not an exhaustive list.

Please call us if you are seeking crisis support or are a referring agency.

BDVS Safer Options and Support

Brisbane Domestic Violence Service (BDVS) Safer Options and Support provides specialist support and advocacy services to people experiencing domestic and family violence in the Brisbane region.

We respond to risk and safety to support individuals to a point where they are safe and stable; whether this be while staying in the relationship, exiting in relationship, or post separation. This is done through a coordinated case response, liaison and advocacy, information, and referral.

Once an individual is safe and stable, women are referred on to our partner services; WHQ, 4th Space, UCC, Centrecare, IFS etc.

Phone (07) 3217 2544 Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm
Fax (07) 3013 6090
Email (non-urgent)
bdvs@micahprojects.org.au
PO Box 3449 South Brisbane Q 4101
bdvs.org.au

BDVS Safer Options and Support can assist with:

• information and advice
• safety planning and assessment
• advocacy and support
• coordinated case response
• safety assessments of your home
• practical safety upgrades to your home
• emergency relief
• technology and digital safety advice.

This is not an exhaustive list.

Please call us if you are seeking support.

If you are a referring agency, please call us or complete the referral form and email the form to us.

BDVS Safer and Accountable Justice Systems

Brisbane Domestic Violence Service (BDVS) Safer and Accountable Justice Systems ensures a holistic response to domestic and family violence in the community by working towards justice and accountability for men who use violence in their relationships.

BDVS Safer and Accountable Justice Systems ensures that throughout the connection between primary justice, statutory bodies and people experiencing and/or using domestic and family violence (DFV), there is oversight, tertiary support, practice modelling and strategic alignment provided by specialist DFV practitioners to keep women and children safe and hold men accountable.

Phone (07) 3217 2544 Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm (and some after hours)
Fax (07) 3013 6090
Email (non-urgent) bdvs@micahprojects.org.au
PO Box 3449 South Brisbane Q 4101
bdvs.org.au

BDVS Safer and Accountable Justice Systems provides:

• men’s behaviour change programs
• men’s education programs
• court support (Holland Park and Richlands Magistrates Courts)
• men’s court information (Sandgate Magistrates Court only).

BDVS is also the lead agency for the Brisbane region High Risk Team (HRT). The HRT is a team of multi-agency services including Queensland Corrective Services, Queensland Police Service, Child Safety, Department of Justice and Attorney General (Courts), Department of Housing & Public Works, Youth Justice, Queensland Health and Victims Assist Queensland. The HRT works in a case coordination model sharing information and developing a single multi agency support plan, to respond to the safety needs of individuals and ensure wherever possible accountability for those who are using violence within the relationship.

If you are a referring agency who would like more information on these services, please contact us.

BDVS Safer Community Culture

BDVS Safer Community Culture develops innovative programs to support victims with newly emerging aspects of domestic and family violence (DFV).

The type of programs include:

• specialist DFV Financial Advocacy (philanthropically funded by CUA)
• supporting and liaising with other key and fringe stakeholders to improve their culture and responses to DFV
• assisting with the development of peer networks
• advocating for improved responses for at-risk and priority populations and being a demonstrated locus of best practice
• a central point for information news and for key innovative strategies.

These are all a part of making our community cultural attitudes safer for women and others experiencing power and control based relationship abuse.

Phone (07) 3217 2544 Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm (and some after hours)
Fax (07) 3013 6090
Email (non-urgent) bdvs@micahprojects.org.au
PO Box 3449 South Brisbane Q 4101
bdvs.org.au

BDVS Safer Community Culture provides:

• specialist financial advocacy and support
• Resound - survivor advocate group
• the Brisbane Integrated Service System’s (ISS) Newsletter
• training and upskilling for workplaces
• systemic advocacy
• media liaison.

If you are a referring agency who would like more information on these services, please contact us.

BDVS Safer Families Initiative

Brisbane Domestic Violence Service (BDVS) Safer Families Initiative addresses adolescent family violence. BDVS Children and Young Person’s Program provides support to children aged 6–17 years who have been impacted by domestic and family violence.

BDVS Safer Families Initiative
Phone (07) 3013 6024 Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm
Email (non-urgent) BDVSSaferFamilies@micahprojects.org.au
PO Box 3449 South Brisbane Q 4101
bdvs.org.au

BDVS Safer Families Initiative can assist with:

• coordinated case response for young males and their female protective caregiver
• evidence based (Break4Change) group or one on one sessions around responding to adolescent to parent violence
• ongoing risk assessment and safety planning
• coordinated case response with other support services
• intake, assessment and referral into the Carinity Talera ReNew program which provides follow on therapeutic support.

This is not an exhaustive list.

BDVS Children and Young Person’s Program can assist with:

• educational and peer support to mothers or female protective caregivers
• One on one or group psycho-education for children and young person’s who have experienced domestic and family violence.

This is not an exhaustive list.

Please call us if you are seeking support through either the Safer Families Initiative or Children and Young Person’s Program.

If you are a referring agency, please call us or complete the referral form for our Safer Families Initiative and email to bdvssaferfamilies@micahprojects.org.au or complete the referral form for our Children and Young People’s program and email the form to us.

Queensland and Australia-wide support for DV:

• DVConnect Womensline on 1800 811 811 (24 hours, 7 days a week)
• DVConnect Mensline on 1800 600 636
• National Sexual Assault, Domestic and Family Violence Counselling Line on 1800 737 732.

Queensland Police Service (QPS) can now be contacted online or via SMS if you have been experiencing domestic or family violence.

Please read the following information carefully:

1. If you can safely call, do not use the online/SMS options
2. If the offence is happening now or if you or someone else is in danger, call 000
3. If you have information about domestic and family violence and if the offence is not happening now and the person is safe, call Policelink on 131 444
4. If the safest way for you to contact QPS is online or SMS, use the online option or register for SMS messaging
5. Make sure you provide clear details about what is happening, report if there are weapons involved and any other information that will assist with your safety and the officer's safety
6. Download the Emergency + (Plus) App and the QPS Policelink App on your phone if safe to do so
7. By pressing '55' when calling Triple Zero, a person can request emergency help to their address without saying a word. Please read this article for further info. Dialling ‘55’ will not automatically result in an immediate emergency or even a prioritised response. People should only use this function if they have no other option to make contact with police.

If you need support for domestic or family violence, call our 24/7 number. If you are in an emergency, call 000.

We value your feedback.

Making a complaint, giving a compliment or offering a suggestion can help improve our service. If you would like to give us feedback please phone BDVS on (07) 3217 2544.

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Thank you for your interest in working with Brisbane Domestic Violence Service. If we have a current vacancy, it will be advertised on the Micah Projects website here.