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Conclusion: Community services responses to economic abuse Key services and programs relating to economic abuse include domestic and family violence and general services such as financial counselling, legal assistance, accommodation assistance, material aid and financial education programs. Identified gaps in community sector responses to economic abuse and assistance for women to gain economic security following abuse include post-crisis services and services which address issues relating to the long-term impacts of economic abuse and domestic violence. Some recent initiatives in the housing and accommodation sector do address longer term issues by supporting women to gain and remain in rental housing and to remain safely in their homes following violence. Research has also identified a need for greater support and individual advocacy for women around financial issues following domestic violence and, in relation to this, there appears to be a need for training, information exchange and collaboration between different services— including between financial counselling and domestic violence services. At the same time there is a considerable lack of knowledge about levels of understanding of economic abuse and responses to it in different community service sectors. This is also the case in regard to how collaborations may be occurring between individual workers or services in different sectors and about models of co-location of services or of holistic case management which might be providing effective responses. There have been a variety of community sector responses which have provided financial literacy education and financial capability building as both preventative measures and for women who have experienced violence. While microfinance initiatives are now offered on an extensive basis with some programs specifically designed for women who have experienced domestic violence, other initiatives in this area have been on a small scale. There is a need for a better understanding of the appropriate contexts for providing financial literacy education to women experiencing economic abuse including the potential for ‘mainstream’ community-based education programs to fill this role. 56
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