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Click here or on the image to see comparative male, female and child murders thus far this year.

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President
Vice President
Secretary
Treasurer
​Board Members
Kathy Kaplan OAM
Lisa Lionnet-Swaan
Amy Gledden
Alan Samuel OAM JP
Jim Bisas
Laura Elkaslassy
Alex Kats
Carol Rothschild
​Michelle Schembri-Lipscombe
And a thanks to our Assistant Editorial Director, Lisa Krygger
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L to R: Carol, Jim, Laura, Alex, Lisa L.S., Michelle, Kathy, Alan, Amy


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Glen Eira City News- February Edition 2018
Glen Eira City Council presented its annual Citizen of the Year, Young Citizen of the Year and Community Group of the Year Awards during an Australia Day Breakfast at Town Hall on Friday 19 January.

Guest speaker at the Breakfast was the founder of impact Kathy Kaplan OAM. impact is a volunteer-run organisation providing assistance to women and children fleeing extreme violence at home.

​Click here for full Glen Eira City Council News.

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What does impact do? Well, in a nutshell...

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impact is a volunteer run organisation providing assistance to women and children fleeing extreme violence at home via agencies delivering crisis accommodation.

Family Violence
​is an equal-opportunity destroyer

affecting families regardless of religious, cultural, ethnic, socio-economic, educational, employment or sobriety status.


impact was founded in 2006 
by Kathy Kaplan OAM and a small group of her friends.

​Read more...


Australian Stats & Facts
Click here to see some of Australia's current and horrifying stats


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impact wishes we didn't need to have this program but we're glad it exists. Please share it with your networks. Contact Mandy on 9259 4282 for more info and to register.

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Home bakers, click here or on the image to register to enter.

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A concert and expose of how women are depicted in song. Serious messages but a lot of fun. Proceeds will go to impact. Book at www.pave.org.au

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This beautiful song was written by Tina Arena and Kate Miller-Heidke when they discovered they each had a friend suffering in an abusive relationship. It is a loving, open hearted invitation to anyone in similar pain to release yourself "When You're Ready", and to know you are never alone. Click on the image to be taken to the vid of this gorgeous song.
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​And, finally, a TV campaign that recognises that Family Abuse
is more than just a bruise.


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​impact acknowledges the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People as the First People of Australia.
We r
ecognise their continuing connection to land, waters and community.
We pay our respects to the Aboriginal and Islander peoples, their cultures and to their elders both past and present.
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The ACNC Tick of Charity Registration (the Registered Charity Tick) aims to gives reassurance to the public that the charity is transparent and accountable by highlighting its presence on the ACNC Charity Register. impact is proud to be one of the charities to have received the ACNC's Registered Charity Tick.
impact for women inc
PO Box 277 ​Glen Huntly VIC 3163

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