You Matter: aligned with Palisade Impact

You Matter is a Victorian-based charity dedicated to empowering women and children impacted by family violence by providing and setting up essential household contents to create fully furnished, welcoming homes in collaboration with support agencies. Through their Havens of Hope program, families are supported to transition from crisis to stability, independence, and community connection. You Matter brings hope, safety, and comfort to those rebuilding their lives after trauma.

The Foundation and Palisade Impact established a partnership with You Matter in FY26 to support a new program, focused on furnishing transitional housing. This program is a direct response to Victoria’s growing housing crisis and the increasing number of women and children remaining in transitional accommodation for extended periods. Through the Transitional Accommodation Program, You Matter furnishes interim housing by setting up multiple transitional units in partnership with family violence agencies. The program enables women to leave family violence relationships safely and with confidence, reducing the risk of women remaining in unsafe environments while longer-term housing solutions are secured.

In FY24 funding for Are They Triple Okay? is continuing to create resources that promote social support both at work and home, including case studies that reach “beyond the uniform” to help break down stigma within emergency services, increase social support and encourage conversations. Additional focus will also be directed at wider external promotion to reach volunteers and friends and family of emergency service workers and frontline responders.

“Are They Triple OK?” Champions will be nurtured through feedback from research and supported by a dedicated Champions Guide, with the learnings potentially applied to other campaign settings.
And R U OK? capacity building in regional and rural areas is being strengthened, through connecting with local organisations, suicide prevention networks and established community infrastructure via hosting “Locals Know Best” workshops. This commitment to “whole of community” responses is critical as the rate of suicide in rural Australia is growing more rapidly than that of cities, particularly as rural residents face repeated stresses due to droughts, floods, and bushfires on top of increased cost of living pressures.

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