What happens after you disclose

First, we’ll listen to your disclosure respecting what you want to share.

Our priority will be to ensure your immediate safety and wellbeing. If you need medical care or other emergency services, we can help connect you.

We can have this confidential conversation any way you like, whether that’s face-to-face, online or by phone.

You’re welcome to have a support person with you or to let us know about additional support you may need.

We’ll talk to you confidentially about what next step you would like to take, explain the process to you and answer your questions or connect you with the right areas of the University who can help you, including for academic support.

If you decide the disclosure is as far as you would like to proceed at that moment, we’ll connect you with support resources on or off campus.  You might choose to seek support from areas at Curtin which include:

• Curtin Psychological and Counselling Services

• Student Wellbeing

• Curtin Student Guild’s Student Assist (This Curtin Student Guild service is independent from the University)

You might choose to seek external support from:

• Women’s Domestic Violence Helpline
  Support for all Western Australians including women, with or without children, who are experiencing family and domestic violence in Western Australia. Phone: 1800 007 339.

• Men’s Domestic Violence Helpline
  Provides information and referrals for men who are concerned about their violent and abusive behaviours, and for male victims of family and domestic violence in Western Australia. Phone: 1800 000 599.

• 1800RESPECT 
  The National Domestic Family and Sexual Violence Counselling Service is a free service available 24/7 by calling or texting 1800 737 732 or on their website.

• Sexual Assault Resource Centre
  Provides a range of free services to people affected by sexual violence. Phone: (08) 6458 1828 or free call 1800 199 888.

• 13YARN
  For Indigenous Australians — ‍13YARN is an Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders crisis support line. Available 24/7.

• Qlife
  QLife provides anonymous and free LGBTIQ+ peer support and referral for people in Australia wanting to talk about sexuality, gender, bodies, feelings or relationships.

If you choose, we can also give you information about other options available to you, including contacting the police or applying for a restraining order or dealing with Centrelink.

If you choose to make a formal report, as well as providing you with support, our Safer Community Team can help you to make that report and lodge it with the Integrity Standards Unit (ISU).

The Safer Community Team will work alongside you to develop a tailored safety plan that reflects your needs and concerns. Together, we’ll assess any risks to your safety—whether on or off campus—and, where appropriate, collaborate with relevant services such as WA Police to help ensure your wellbeing is fully supported.

If you need it, we’ll connect you with ongoing wellbeing and academic support within Curtin.

If Curtin can’t give you the support you need, we’ll support you to engage with the relevant support external to Curtin.