This week we achieved the milestone of 13,000 Supporters! Our petition now has 13,002 supporters/signatories, and has had 753,327 Views and 1,475 Shares, and 120 people have left comments of support. Now that Parliament has resumed in 2023, we have resumed inviting The Hon. Mary-Anne Thomas MP, the Minister for Health. Minister for Health Infrastructure and Minister for Medical Research, The Hon. Enver Erdogan, Minister for Youth Justice and Minister for Victim Support, and Mr Tim Richardson, Parliamentary Secretary for Health Infrastructure and Parliamentary Secretary for Mental Health and Suicide Prevention, to meet with petition organisers, supporters and relevant peak bodies and stakeholders.
To discuss what a meaningful, restorative investment in the lives of survivors, families, partners and the communities impacted, can look like. Including funding the facilitation of the co-design of responses, with those impacted.
Our vision includes piloting frameworks of accessible and integrated service systems that are already working well elsewhere in Australia, and in the world, in a couple of Victorian communities devastated by historic, systemic institutional child sexual abuse. The Ballarat community, and the Bayside communities of Melbourne.
We are also asking The Hon. Mary-Anne Thomas to work with the relevant decision makers within Victorian State and Federal Government, to ask that they collectively fund a person-centred approach to survivors, their families and communities, that requires knocking on just one door. Designed around the holistic needs of individuals and families, that provides victims and survivors of institutional child sexual abuse with "no wrong door."
The urgent action our petition seeks is well known to the Victorian State and Federal Governments, given numerous Royal Commission recommendations, and submissions by the Victorian Government itself recommending "no wrong door."
13,000 supporters is an incredible milestone to achieve! Thank you!
Whilst we celebrate this achievement, we will continue to work hard to achieve meaningful, restorative investment in the wellbeing and lives of Victorian survivors, families, partners and the communities impacted by child sexual abuse.