Home >
Violence prevention >
Department's role in domestic and family violence prevention >
Department's role in domestic and family violence prevention
Major domestic and family violence prevention activities undertaken by the department through the Violence Prevention Team and regional offices include:
- designing and developing operational policy, protocols, programs, procedures and practice guidelines for the delivery of domestic and family violence services
- monitoring and reviewing operational policy, protocols and programs
- monitoring, evaluating and reporting on the impact of the Domestic and Family Violence Protection Act 1989
- developing, monitoring and reviewing practice standards for service delivery
- designing and developing protocols and programs to facilitate community awareness and community education initiatives
- providing funding to domestic and family violence support services throughout Queensland, including rural and Indigenous communities
- facilitating the annual Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Month, held each year in May
- developing new violence prevention initiatives.
- development of a Queensland Government Domestic and Family Violence Strategy
Last updated: 24 June 2008.