This page is designed to support professionals and individuals alike in recognising, addressing, and preventing financial abuse within the context of family violence. Here, you’ll find a wealth of information, including practical tools, factsheets, and intervention strategies, all tailored to help you navigate the complexities of financial abuse.
Resources for Practitioners
- Financial Abuse Support Toolkit Information about what financial abuse involves.
- Financial Recovery: A Guide to Helping People who Have Experienced Family Violence Tip sheet about the main financial issues victim survivors may face.
- Money Check Up A conversation guide for professionals to find out if a victim survivor has financial concerns.
- People Affected by Family Violence: Using the law to help your clients on the road to financial recovery Factsheet about assisting victim survivors who have experienced financial abuse.
- Case Work Support Resources for family violence workers, lawyers and financial counsellors about relevant reforms for clients experiencing family violence.
- Financial Elder Abuse Examples of financial elder abuse and red flags.
- Joint Facilities and Family Violence Factsheet about joint loans and other joint facilities in the context of family violence.
- The Dangerous Combination of Gambling and Family Violence Practice guide for gambling counsellors, financial counsellors and family violence professionals.
Resources for Clients
- How to Spot and Stop Financial Abuse Toolkit for Indigenous women and girls.
- Family Violence and Financial Abuse Resource with information about what financial abuse is and steps that victim survivors can take.
- Some Signs of Financial Abuse Infographic for victim survivors to identify financial abuse.
- Financial Independence Hub The Good Shepherd Financial Independence Hub (FIH) is a national, trauma-informed service providing support to people of all gender identities who have experienced financial abuse, and/or the financial impacts of domestic and family violence.
General Resources and Research
- Design to Disrupt: Reimagining bank products to improve financial safety Discussion paper examining how the finance sector can play a key role in preventing economic abuse.
- Crime Stoppers Victoria Podcast Series Crime Stoppers Victoria has released a podcast which explores financial abuse and coercive control in relationships. There are two episodes ‘What is financial abuse’ and ‘Escaping financial abuse’.
- Understanding Economic and Financial Abuse and Disability in the Context of Domestic and Family Violence