Safe, Healthy and Empowered Relationships (SHER) is a Domestic and Family Violence behaviour intervention program for men who speak Dari and are living in Logan, Ipswich, Brisbane, Gold Coast or Moreton Bay.
The goal of this program is to increase safety for women and children by providing men an opportunity to take accountability for their actions recognising the harm their violence and behaviour choices are having on family.
This program helps you:
- Build effective ways to handle difficult situations without conflict
- Take responsibility for your actions and impact on others
- Build healthy family relationships as a father and husband
This program is for men who:
- come from an Afghan Dari speaking background living in Logan, Ipswich, Brisbane, Ipswich, Gold Coast, or Moreton Bay
- are concerned about how their behaviour affects their family
- are ready to make positive changes in their relationships
The SHER program can help to:
- Understand the difference between unhealthy and healthy relationships
- Build new ways to handle difficult situations
- Take accountability for your actions to build a safer home for your family
- Build better connections with those you care about
Individual support phase
- One-hour weekly sessions
- Private discussions with a skilled in-language facilitator
- Opportunity to discuss your specific situation
- Prepare for group work in a comfortable, private setting
- Explore new perspectives on family relationships
- Build strategies for creating a safer home environment
Group program phase (16 weeks)
- Weekly sessions
- Closed group format (same participants throughout the program)
- Learn from and support other men in similar situations
- Develop practical skills for positive change
Sessions take place every Thursday evening for 16 weeks, 6 – 8pm commencing April 2025
Gould Adams Community Centre, 558-662 Kingston Road, Kingston
If you or someone is in immediate danger, please call Triple Zero (000) for emergency services.
If you are subjected to or impacted by sexual violence, know someone who is, or are triggered by this content and would like to access support, please contact:
- 1800 RESPECT – Call 1800 737 732, text 0458 737 732, chat online or video call via their website for confidential domestic, family and sexual violence counselling information and support services
- DV Connect – Call 1800 811 811 for immediate support with crisis transport and accommodation in QLD
- Lifeline – Call 13 11 14
- 99 Steps – 07 3412 8282 or 99steps@ssi.org.au for women from CALD backgrounds living in Logan/Beenleigh experiencing DFV. Support includes information, advise, case work support and referral
