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Challenge DV has been partnering with Australian businesses since 2001 to educate, advocate and empower people to end domestic and family violence.

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Our impact

Challenge DV is a social enterprise with a simple vision: to create a world without domestic and family violence.

We make an impact by educating workplaces on the signs of domestic and family violence, partnering with organisations that share our vision to create change, and uniting the community through powerful events and advocacy.

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Our latest news

EVENT: Darkness to Daylight | 1 to 31 May 2023

Darkness to Daylight is a 110km run where each kilometre represents one of those lives lost. It is a long distance, challenging both mentally and physically. Participants come together to run andRead more

EVENT: UNDER COVER Screening | 8 December

Join us for a special screening of UNDER COVER during this year’s 16 Days of Activism and explore how we can tackle the homelessness epidemic for women over 50. Following the premiere atRead more

Meet the team: Michael Jeh

Former first-class cricketer and Oxford Blue, Michael now works as a wildlife ranger in Africa, and he is also a public speaker and a facilitator/educator with over 15 years’ experience in theRead more

Meet the team: Chrissie Keynes

Chrissie has worked in education for 17 years and in many different settings from early childhood through to adult education. Her main love is connecting with people and inspiring others to discoverRead more

Meet the team: Trent Larkman

Trent, who is based in Sydney, is a specialist violence prevention and response training practitioner. He is a registered Social Worker and has a background in men’s family violence counselling andRead more

Meet the team: Tamara Pallos

Tamara originally trained as a lawyer but retrained as a counsellor after realising that her keenest interests lay in promoting wellbeing. She has a track record of working in the domestic and famRead more

Challenge DV becomes White Ribbon Australia approved training partner

Challenge DV is pleased to announce that it is an Approved Training Partner for White Ribbon Australia. Through this partnership, workplaces across Australia who are undertaking the White RibbonRead more

Making every step count to end domestic and family violence through Darkness to Daylight

Darkness to Daylight is Challenge DV’s community education, awareness and fundraising event for domestic and family violence prevention. It is a 110km challenge, with each kilometre symbolising aRead more

Supporting women fleeing domestic and family violence to access information in their own language

Women who are fleeing domestic and family violence can more easily find information they need about refuges in their own language, thanks to a new guide. Challenge DV has partnered with the CombinedRead more

Connecting Queensland’s diverse communities to end domestic and family violence

Over 80 leaders from across Queensland’s multicultural communities, together with domestic and violence service providers, gathered at a special event in May 2022 to explore ways to end domesticRead more

Connecting workplaces with frontline domestic and family violence services

Challenge DV's partnerships connect workplaces directly with frontline domestic and family violence services to support them where they need it most, in this case with Chisholm. Chisholm is aRead more

Delivering trauma training to frontline First Nations domestic and family violence services

In 2021, the QBE Foundation partnered with Challenge DV to ensure that frontline domestic and family violence service workers who worked in First Nations communities in Far North Queensland receivedRead more

Help us end domestic and family violence.

Domestic and family violence affects more than 3.6 million Australians every year with one woman a week on average dying from domestic and family violence.

Domestic and family violence is entirely preventable - with your help, we can end domestic and family violence once and for all.

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