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. Long-term recovery through a trauma-sensitive community, capability-building programs, and a national lived-experience peer-to-peer Mentoring Program.

We provide a Resilience Program supported by a lived-experience peer-to-peer Mentoring Program, delivered nationally online and face-to-face.

We provide long-term recovery through trauma-sensitive, capability-building programs bespoke for each woman’s needs and a national lived-experience peer-to-peer Mentoring Program.

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.

Fact: victims return 8 to 11 times before they leave for good, or die.

Violence against women is costing the Australian economy $22 billion a year.

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1 woman in Australia dies every 8 days as a result of domestic abuse.

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1 in 4 Women in Australia are affected by domestic violence.

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Violence against women is costing the Australian economy $22 billion a year. 〰️ 1 woman in Australia dies every 8 days as a result of domestic abuse. 〰️ 1 in 4 Women in Australia are affected by domestic violence. 〰️

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.

Founder’ Story.

Simone Allan

  • Director and Interim CEO, Women’s Resilience Centre

  • Director, Mondo Search and Mondo Mentor 

  • Former Director, Lived Experience Australia

  • Committee Member of South Pacific Private Hospital

  • Volunteer Surf Life Saver

  • Qualified yoga teacher

The granddaughter of a sheep farmer, she was born in Armidale before moving to Walgett, Blayney - then Sydney. Her parents divorced at 8 and her father left to follow his charter supporting Indigenous communities. Raised by a single mum with 2 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 & Mondo Mentor, which placed over 2,800 business leaders and connected schools and corporations through mentoring.

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 & sustainable recovery programs.

Simone Allan

Our Vision

STOP THE CYCLE OF ABUSE.

We provide safe and secure services to enable as many women as possible to reset and rebuild their lives after being in an abusive relationship or experiencing deep loss or trauma; so they can then successfully build healthy relationships that lead to positive generational change.

Our Values

Safety First

We provide a safe, confidential and respectful community for women and their families to connect, share and heal. We never take for granted the trust our community puts in us to get this right.

Caring To The Core

We approach each day with a genuine and heartfelt interest in making a difference, having a social impact and supporting our program participants and community to build resilience, capability and self-love.

Inclusive

We know the value of information and prioritise understanding the complex layers required to support women who have, or still are, experience domestic abuse, trauma or deep loss. We will never stop improving and learning to ensure we maintain a high level of skill, subject matter expertise and promote inclusivity. 

Hope

We know each day is an opportunity to grow, improve, change and maintain connection to what matters most; contributing to the greater good. It is imperative that we find a way and maintain hope for a better tomorrow and give women in our community the confidence and capability to believe in this too.

Respect

We provide a high standard of service that is ethical, evidence-based, trauma-sensitive and highly responsive. We will continue to approach the growth of our organisation with transparency and consideration of how we can contribute to the wider community in the most respectful way. We priortise good communication.