Our Story

Who We Are

The Women's Resilience Centre is a place of hope, healing and recovery for women who have experienced or witnessed domestic abuse and trauma. The Women's Resilience Centre supports transition from domestic and family violence, trauma and abuse to resetting and rebuilding lives through long-term recovery with a trauma-sensitive community, capability-building programs, and a national lived-experience peer-to-peer Mentoring Program.

We are a national service dedicated to helping women heal and move forward from domestic abuse and trauma through powerful and holistic long-term recovery support. Programs are offered to help work and career, finances, parenting, relationships, joy, connection, stress reduction and resilience, reflecting our core values of safety first, caring to the core, respect, hope, inclusion and empowerment.

Our Unique Approach

While crisis services focus on immediate safety, we focus on sustainable recovery and breaking the cycle of abuse. We know that recovery is prevention. By helping women rebuild every aspect of their lives, we're not only supporting them but also protecting future generations from continuing patterns of abuse.

Through our national lived experience mentoring service, innovative recovery programs, and frontline support shop, The Resilience Circle, we're creating lasting change in communities across the country.

The Women's Resilience Centre is accessible to any woman seeking support in every community of Australia through secure online programs and remote client care management, ensuring privacy and support regardless of location.

By providing holistic recovery services that address every aspect of rebuilding a life after trauma, we're not just helping individual women – we're breaking cycles of abuse and creating positive generational change.

Why It Matters

Millions of women and families all over Australia are struggling to overcome unwarranted abuse and trauma with many not succeeding. Abuse is not a SHE or a HE issue, it is a WE issue. This has to stop and WE as a community must help women and families reset their lives, change the legacy of abuse and trauma and achieve generational change.

The Missing Majority

Behind these words lies a hidden reality - what we call "the Missing Majority." These are the victim-survivors of domestic violence who never receive any formal help:

5 out of 10 women never receive formal support
8 out of 10 women never report their abuse to police
9 out of 10 women never access shelter services

The statistics are sobering, and the size of the problem is immense. 1 in 4 women in Australia will experience domestic abuse in their lifetime. This means these stories exist in every community, every workplace, and every social gathering. It may be someone you know. It may be someone who has spent years trying to put the pieces of their life back together, alone.

This is why the Women's Resilience Centre was founded; to reach the Missing Majority and provide the long-term recovery support that has been missing from Australia's response to domestic abuse and trauma.

By focusing on sustained recovery beyond the crisis period, we help women not only survive but truly heal and thrive, breaking cycles of abuse that can otherwise persist across generations.

Lived Experience

Our ‘Lived Experience Advisory’ provide unique insights and understanding of women who have survived and are recovering from domestic abuse. To preserve confidentiality, they cannot be named, however, we are enormously grateful for the sharing of their stories as they provide a level of authenticity to our work that allows us to provide targeted, sensitive and respectful support.

Victims return 8 to 11 times before they leave for good, or die

Founder’ Story

Simone Allan

Founder of Women’s Resilience Centre

The granddaughter of a sheep farmer, she was born in Armidale before moving to Walgett, Blayney, and then Sydney. Her parents divorced at 8, and her father left to follow his charter supporting Indigenous communities. Raised by a single mum with two younger brothers and no close relatives nearby, her upbringing was isolating and often filled with tragedy. Mentors became her support.

In 1998, Simone founded Mondo Search and Mondo Mentor, which placed over 2,800 business leaders and connected schools and corporations through mentoring programs.

In 2011, Simone hit burnout and embarked on a journey of recovery. She discovered the power of good recovery programs to support people with trauma histories, significantly aided by mentors. Her background and experience came together with the founding of the Women’s Resilience Centre in 2020, her “True North”, bringing together her charter of women’s health, mentoring, practical job readiness, skills, and sustainable recovery programs.