Funding

DV-alert is funded and supported by the Department of Social Services, under the National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children 2010 -2022.

DV-alert is funded to implement strategies towards four priority areas including:

• Reducing violence against women
• Demonstrating Australian Government leadership on gender equality
• Increasing opportunities for women to undertake valued leadership roles
• Creating business and workplace cultures that deliver better economic choices and outcomes for women

The Australian Government started to fund Lifeline to deliver DV-alert (previously known as DiVERT) in July 2007.