Family Violence

Moogji Initiative is a locally governed, Aboriginal-led family violence prevention model that is culturally grounded, trauma-informed, and place-based. The model is designed, delivered, and governed by Aboriginal people, ensuring that responses to family violence are culturally safe, effective, and aligned with community priorities.

 

The model will leverage all services provided by Moogji and our partnership with Orbost Regional Health.

 

The approach recognizes that Aboriginal family violence is not a cultural issue, but the result of intersecting historical and structural factors including colonization, intergenerational trauma, dispossession, and ongoing systemic inequity, Prevention is therefore centered on healing, cultural strengthening, and community leadership, alongside safety and accountability. 

 

This model priorities early  intervention and prevention by strengthening protective factors such as connection to culture, kinship, and community, while delivering culturally safe responses for victim-survivors and accountability-focused healing pathways for people using violence, it operates across the continuum of prevention, early intervention, and healing, with strong links to crisis and statutory system where required.