SPEAQ is the network of Services and Practitioners for the Elimination of Abuse in Queensland.
Stopping the violence at its source, by working directly with those using the violence.
Member practitioners and services work with persons who use domestic and family violence in any form, and with partners or family members affected by their abuse.
Our Organisation
Connection and Support
Our network connects and supports practitioners, co-ordinators and managers across Queensland.
Voice
We also work to inform, educate and advise other professionals, government and the public as the voice of specialist professionals in the specialist field of men's DFV behaviour change work.
History
Supporting family safety
What do members do?
For persons using violence
Our members help persons who have used domestic and family violence to change; and to find respectful and safe ways of relating to foster equal partnerships. Our members primarily work with men who use violence towards women, however our membership has evolved with further investment in DFV behaviour intervention work in Queensland. We now have members who work with young people of all genders, women who use violence or resistive force, and LGBTIQA+ abusive partners. While SPEAQ recognises the focus of our network has and continues to be men's use of domestic and family violence, we recognise that violence can be used by all genders, all ages, and in all types of families.
For partners and family
Our members also work with their partners and other family members subjected to their abuse, to provide support and help create safety. This is specialist work, supporting people, primarily women, across Australia to feel safe and empowered. Our members centre choice of the person who has experienced violence, including if the desire is to remain in the relationship. We work with the person using violence to support partners and families to live a life of non-violence.
"The bottom line is that all women and children have the right to feel safe all the time. When feelings of safety are compromised it is the job of the whole of community to do something about it. I play a small part in this process by working with the husbands, partners, fathers, brothers, sons." - the late Pam Robertson, former SPEAQ Steering Committee Co-Convenor and mentor to many of us.
A Statewide presence
Members come from a range of services across Queensland, for example:
- workers from most of the state-funded DFV behaviour intervention group programs
- individual DFV behaviour intervention services
- counselling services
- phone counsellors
- men’s DFV court workers
Organisational Members
- Anglicare Southern Qld
- Australia's CEO Challenge
- Brisbane Domestic Violence Service
- Brisbane Youth Service
- Centacare Family and Relationship Services
- Central Queensland Indigenous Development
- Domestic Violence Action Centre
- Domestic Violence Prevention Centre Gold Coast
- Domestic Violence Resource Service Mackay and Region
- DVConnect
- Edon Place Domestic & Family Violence Centre Inc
- Gladstone Women's Health Centre
- Graham House Community Centre
- Helem Yumba (Central Queensland Healing Centre)
- Kurbingui Youth Development
- Lifeline Darling Downs & South West Qld
- Men & Co Services
- North Queensland Domestic Violence Resource Service
- Relationships Australia Queensland
- South Burnett CTC
- UnitingCare Community
- YFS
Click here to find out more about services provided by SPEAQ member organisations.