The Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Strategy 2025–2035: Addressing Sexual Violence Together (the Strategy) has a vision that ‘all people in Western Australia are free from sexual violence’.
The Strategy sets out a coordinated framework to prevent sexual violence, improve service responses, support victim-survivors and hold perpetrators to account.
The Strategy has been shaped by data analysis, academic research, consultations across Western Australia and work with experts from government, academia, and the specialist sexual violence sector. For an overview of the consultation process, see the Engagement Summary (PDF, 777.93KB).
Development of the Strategy was jointly led by the Departments of Communities, Justice and Health and has been informed by the experiences and voices of victim–survivors, the WA community, and the professionals and services working to prevent and respond to sexual violence.
The Strategy provides a coordinated framework for action across four interconnected domains:
- Prevention
- Early Intervention
- Responses
- Recovery and Healing
The Strategy is being delivered through Action Plans across 10 years (2025–2035).
The first Action Plan guides coordinated action across eight priority areas, recognising that reform and delivery are already in progress across the Strategy's domains.
Support
Reading about sexual violence can be distressing.
If you, or someone you know, is in immediate danger, please call 000.
If it’s not an emergency and you need support, please ask for support from a person you trust or you can contact the services listed below:
- 1800 RESPECT – 1800 737 732
- Sexual Assault Resource Centre 24-hour Crisis Line – 1800 199 888
- Women’s Domestic Violence Helpline (WA) – 1800 007 339
- Men’s Domestic Violence Helpline (WA) – 1800 000 599
- Crisis Care – 1800 199 008
- Lifeline Australia – 13 11 14
- Mensline Australia – 1300 789 978
- 13 Yarn – 13 92 76
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