Empowering
victim-survivors
We want to solve the toughest problems in Clinical Forensic Medicine in a time critical manner. Shining a light on the darkest days with an integrated expert-led response.
Advancing Clinical Forensic Medicine best practice in a collaborative alliance.
About Us
We're the people you don't plan to meet - the frontline responders to sexual and family violence. And as a nation, we're falling short.
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There are many challenges that underpin the crisis in responding to sexual and family violence across Australia, including but not limited to marked geographic inequity in services availability, time sensitive nature of forensic specimen collection, lack of expert clinicians and counsellors, and victim-survivor competing priorities in the immediate aftermath of their assault.
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For many, the barriers in accessing services - and specifically gender/culture appropriate services - are insurmountable.
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We are a group of deeply committed, innovative and passionate professionals who seek to do better. We believe applying the transformative potential of technology to enable real-world solutions in solving the inequity crisis in accessing timely, quality services. We are constantly affirmed by the abiding and enduring nature of human resilience. We have learnt many lessons on the importance of agility, open-mindedness and compassion in clinical operations. ACFMA was born from this time and these ideas. It is our attempt, through collaboration between clinical forensic specialists, allied professionals and data scientists, to improve timely and quality service delivery to victims of sexual and family violence, In Australia and the world.
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Our Mission -
Unprecedented Improvement in access to care with Impeccable reliability
200K
Sexual Assaults estimated to occur in Australia.
40M
Sexual Assaults estimated to occur globally every year.
1:3
Women will be sexually assaulted in their lifetime.
2000
Sexual Assault examinations estimated to be conducted in Australia every year. Only 1% of Assaults.
40%
Of family violence victims do not know where to go to get help after an episode of violence.
Promoting Partnerships
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People are the key.
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There is already an entire highly skilled workforce that has had enough of violence against women, sexual violence and family violence. It is our goal to equip these clinicians with a tool to effectively deal with the problem. We don't want more headlines.
When a victim-survivor presents following an assault, it is our vision that all frontline medical practitioners, nurses, midwives, social workers, aboriginal healthcare workers and police to have immediate access to world leading forensic advice and compassionate care. This can be done.
Our team has worked tirelessly to develop a solution that meets all these needs.
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The centrepiece of our solution is the SAFE-CHOICE platform.
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