SCOPE Regional Domestic and Family Violence Service - Sunshine and Cooloola Coast, QLD, Australia

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SCOPE [suncoast cooloola outreach prevention and education]

SCOPE has been established to reduce the occurrence of domestic and family violence from Caloundra to Gympie including the Hinterland.

SCOPE is committed to providing you with care and support in a confidential environment because we understand how vulnerability results from lack of equity in relationships.

This ongoing support is provided to you at no cost as Centacare's ongoing commitment to reducing the occurrence and impact of domestic and family violence throughout the Sunshine coast and Cooloola Regions.

Counselling & Support

You can ring SCOPE Domestic & Family Violence Service:

• To talk
• To seek information
• To make an appointment to see a counsellor for yourself and your child/children
• To join a women's  or men's group
• To arrange support at court
• To arrange an interpreter
• To arrange speakers for groups or schools

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How We Can Help You

Our workers will provide you with support, information and referral in the following areas:

• Looking at the options, whether you decide to stay in or leave your relationship
• Assessing and planning for safety
• Information about domestic violence and it's effects
• Housing and emergency accommodation referral
• Assistance with Protection order applications, questions about court & court support
• Telephone or face to face counselling and emotional support
• Groups for men
• Groups for women

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Programs / Services

• Outreach workers can provide support, counselling, information and referral
• Domestic and Family Violence Court Support
• Assistance with domestic violence order applications (DVO's)
• Community Education, Awareness and Prevention Sessions for agencies and schools
• Counselling for Adults and Children
• 'MR' Men's Relationship Program
• Faxback
• COMET employment program
  • A program to assist women affected by domestic and family violence to re-enter the workforce

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SCOPE Brochures and Pamphlets

The brochures below are available in Adobe Acrobat pdf format and you will need the Adobe Acrobat pdf reader in order to view them. If you do not have this reader installed on your computer system, you will need to download it first.

Click below to download:

• Women On The Move Group
• Men's Relationships Group Program
• Safety Plan
• SCOPE - "Never Think your Partner's Violence and Abuse is Your Fault"
• Court Support - Aggrieved
• Court Support - Respondent

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Tell Us What You Think

SCOPE are interested in your feedback. 

Click Here to download our Client Feedback Form. 

Please print and post to:

SCOPE

PO Box 5350, Maroochydore, 4558

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Employment Vacancies

There are currently no available vacancies at SCOPE Domestic & Family Violence Service at this time.

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If you are in

immediate danger

please contact

the POLICE on

000

or DVConnect

on freecall:

1800 811 811

Contact SCOPE:

(07) 5430 9300

Operating Hours:

9am - 4.30pm

Monday to Friday

Fact:

Over 1 million

Australian women have

experienced violence by

an intimate partner

(Australian Bureau of  Statistics, 1996)

Fact:

The total annual cost of

domestic violence in

2002 - 2003 is estimated

to be $8.1 billion dollars

(Commonwealth of Australia, 2004)

Fact:

23% of Australian

women who have ever

been married or in a de-

facto relationship

experienced violence by

a partner at some time

during the relationship.

(Australian Bureau of

Statistics, 1996)

Myth:

Domestic Violence is

not a widespread

problem

Fact:

The private nature of

domestic violence has

resulted in it remaining

a hidden problem.

However, it is one

which has damaging

effects on many victims

each year.