Stepping Out Program

09/01/2026

28/12/2025

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24/12/2025

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12/12/2025

In it’s seventh year, Addi Road’s Hampers of Hope is community goodwill personified. Hampers of donated goods are distributed to people whose Christmas does not look like a K-mart commercial.

Many of our survivors are estranged from family of origin, living in social isolation and socioeconomic disadvantage because of their childhood s*xual abuse. Their Hamper of Hope, full of little treats and human kindness, are a reminder that community carrs.

Stepping Out has availed itself of Addi Road’s generosity over the years, starting in COVID when we delivered emergency food hampers. This was the first time we organised a crew for packing hampers and it was such a buzz to give back.

Thanks, Addi Road! Link for donations in pics 🎁💝🎁💝

05/12/2025

Stepping Out representing at WAGEC screening of “It Starts with US”, a short film about a youth program for kids experiencing domestic violence, using music to connect and communicate the fear and pressure they’ve lived with.

Highlights were Bailey and Xiao, two of the program participants of Project O whose pride and new confidence shone. Lowlight was that this important primary prevention program has since been axed. This film shows that art and music help when there are no words and also the importance of funding for primary prevention of DFSV.

Panel was facilitated by and Hannah Tonkin, NSW Women’s Safety Commissioner, and Aunty Dixie Link-Gordon, aunty in residence at WAGEC and Full Stop Australia.

(Christine Roberts and Tanya Lee from Stepping Out Board with Melissa Holmes CEO and Erin Stuart, Program Coordinator)
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04/12/2025

Please donate to Stepping Out so we can continue to support adult female survivors of child s*xual abuse like Leanne.

When victims of child s*xual abuse speak out they often are met with responses like; ‘No, that didn’t happen’, or ‘Steve is such a nice guy he wouldn’t do something like that’, or ‘yes, I knew that was happening’, or ‘what did you do to make him do that to you, were you flirting with him’.

Stepping Out represents the older generations of women who for decades have kept secrets to themselves. They didn’t have peer support groups or networks to help them. It wasn’t talked about and people didn’t want to think about it. In the vacuum of silence, child s*xual abuse remained rampant.

But you can help this Christmas by supporting women living in crisis. We provide a range of trauma-informed services targeted to meet the needs of women who have been abused as children.

Make a tax deductible donation through the link in our bio or here;👇 https://www.steppingout.org.au/donate/

01/12/2025

International Day of Disability - 3rd December ✨✨

Tomorrow, Stepping Out will deliver its final webinar on the prevalence and impacts of child s*xual abuse in the disability sector with a focus on trauma-informed responses to disclosures. It’s FREE and conveniently timed for lunchtime at 12-1.30pm.

Tomorrow is also the International Day of Disability and the theme is “Fostering Disability Inclusive Societies for Advancing Social Progress”. Children with disability are up to 14% more susceptible to CSA. Many CSA survivors develop psychosocial disability as a result of childhood and complex trauma. Both CSA and disability raise feelings of social isolation which is exacerbated when the two intersect.

Please join us tomorrow to learn how to best support clients living with the isolating impacts of disability and CSA and consider how we can make our society more inclusive to advance the progress of humanity 🙏

You can register by emailing us at info@steppingout.org.au and we’ll send through the link 📧

29/11/2025

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28/11/2025

Christmas is a tricky time of year for CSA survivors with all its shouty messages of consumerism and community. It can exacerbate feelings of social isolation and socioeconomic disadvantage, both impacts of childhood trauma through no fault of their own.

This is why Stepping Out is so pleased and proud to be part of the Addi Road community which looks after people whose Christmas does not look like a K-mart commercial. Their annual Hampers of Hope campaign is truly the spirit of Christmas - volunteers pack hampers full of donated treats for vulnerable members of the community to help through the festive season.

“Each hamper is a message of care, dignity and solidarity - a reminder that our community stands together.”

Today at social inclusion group, we decorated tags for the hampers in art class with Assemblage Sisters. We’ll be helping to pack hampers in a few weeks and, of course, our people will each receive a hamper for the holiday period. There’s even hampers for pets who are cherished family members.

Thank you to Addi Road for providing a community space where our people feel safe, supported and included 🎄🎄🎄
Addi Road Community Organisation
The Assemblage Sisters