Our work
Where approaches to service system measurement tend to focus on supply and demand, Safety Measures considers broader and more complex domains, with a focus on those that can be better understood from a specialist DFV service perspective.
Three overarching questions guide our work:
What does demand for specialist DFV services look like?
What influences capacity to meet this demand?
What impacts do specialist DFV services have?
Mixed approaches
Quantitative
A core part of our work is looking at existing datasets and exploring what they can tell us about service accessibility and effectiveness.
Qualitative
Administrative data can give us insight, but we need to hear from people delivering and accessing services to understand the full picture.
Sense-making
Participatory processes to draw together quantitative and qualitative data analysis, challenge assumptions, share and co-create knowledge and drive transformative change.
The partnership
Safety Measures is by and for the specialist domestic and family violence sector, represented by a partnership between six organisations across the Northern Territory, South Australia and Victoria.
