Please note that we are currently not taking any new agencies into the program at the moment as we try to find additional and ongoing funding to but please feel free to sign on to the waiting list.
Resources
For handouts and information about responding to technology-facilitated-abuse, visit techsafety.org.au/resources.
Training
Explore WESNET’s training packages on responding to technology-facilitated abuse.
Refer a client
To refer a woman to a Safe Connections agency, call 1800 WESNET (1800 937 638), Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm, AEST.
Smartphones for survivors.
Technology safety support for frontline workers.
What people are saying about SafeConnections
When you offer a phone to a woman who has previously been denied the ability to have one by a perpetrator and she cries, you know this service is making a difference. In some cases it had enabled them to re-connect with extended family for the first time in months, or even years.
DV Support Worker Survey response July 2017
Getting women off technology is not the answer...
Trudy's story
When I realised my phone was being monitored...I was scared. I had lost that freedom as well.
How the Safe Connections program makes an impact

Technology Safety training
By delivering tech safety training and advice, Safe Connections increases the capacity of frontline organisations to respond to technology facilitated abuse, improving victim-survivor safety.

Phones for victim-survivors
Victim-survivors receive a new smartphone, $30 pre-paid SIM cards, 90-day ID exemption and technology safety information, free-of-charge, integrated with other supports provided by participating frontline services.
