CNV makes regular submissions towards legislative changes to help improve the lives of people impacted by family violence.

CNV is proactive in contributing to government policy and legislative changes to ensure that lived experience and the expertise of the family violence sector are helping to shape the change we seek to see.

Our submissions draw on over 30 years of specialised family violence expertise and are developed in consultation with our staff, partner organisations and those with lived experience of family violence.

Our submissions will always centre the safety and wellbeing of women, children and diverse communities who have or are experiencing family violence: this is part of our journey towards gender and social equality in a violence free world.

View our latest submissions

End Homelessness

Submission to National Plan to End Homelessness

CNV is deeply concerned with the ongoing, and far-reaching impacts that a lack of affordable and safe housing is having on communities, including the impacts on our staff when trying to support families seeking a life free from violence.

Rental Crisis

Submission to the Inquiry into the Worsening Rental Crisis in Australia

On 4 August, CNV contributed to the Inquiry on the worsening rental crisis in Australia.

View our Annual reports

CNV annual report cover 2023-24

Annual report 2023-24

CNV annual report cover 2022-23

Annual report 2022-23

CNV annual report cover 2021-22

Annual report 2021-22

CNV annual report cover 2020-21

Annual report 2020-21

CNV annual report cover 2019-20

Annual report 2019-20

View our Reconciliation Action Plan

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Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan 2024-26

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About us

The Centre for Non-Violence (CNV) is the leading family violence service in Victoria’s Loddon region.

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News

Read our latest media releases, submissions, statements and stories.

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Our history

CNV’s feminist approach goes back to our foundations, when we were established by a group of women in 1990 to address homelessness for young women.