26Gender safety principle

26 Gender safety principle

People receiving mental health and wellbeing services may have specific safety needs or concerns based on their gender. Consideration is therefore to be given to these needs and concerns and access is to be provided to services that—

(a) are safe; and

(b) are responsive to any current experience of family violence and trauma or any history of family violence and trauma; and

(c) recognise and respond to the ways gender dynamics may affect service delivery, treatment and recovery; and

(d) recognise and respond to the ways in which gender intersects with other types of discrimination and disadvantage.