Independent Collective of Survivors (ICOS) Revenue

About Independent Collective of Survivors (ICOS)

The Independent Collective of Survivors (ICOS) is a national independent body that works with individuals and organisations in building capability to ethically and effectively engage with lived and living experience and knowledge of domestic, family, and sexual violence (DFSV), and other forms of gendered violence. Website: https://www.icos.org.au Learn more about addressing and ending DFSV: https://linktr.ee/icos_aus Our offerings include capacity building for organisations who value working with DFSV lived experience, and amplifying DFSV victim survivor voices in survivor advocacy. Coming soon: survivor advocate training for people who want to transform their lived experience into expertise. We work with organisations to build capacity and embed lived expertise into decision-making, service design and delivery, research and evaluation. We support ethical engagement with victim survivors of DFSV using the Experts by Experience and other best practice frameworks. We are the only victim survivor-led and run nationwide organisation advocating for the value of lived expertise and providing support for victim survivors' leading campaigns to shape legal reform, policy and systems change. We can assist your organisation to take an ethical and trauma-informed approach to establishing a lived experience expert advisory panel, develop designated lived experience roles, and assist in opportunities for people with lived experience of DFSV to inform organisational development and co-design processes, research; for speaking/media engagements; and ensuring your organisation is more responsive to the community need for safety from violence and abuse.

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