To our valued partners, donors and funders and more broadly, all involved in the work of FVREE, we thank you for your open and collegiate style in working with us as we move from strength to strength in partnering for impact and change.
None of this can happen without the astute leadership, experience and skills of our voluntary Board of Directors who have again in the past year provided extraordinary commitment and who give so generously of their time, expertise, knowledge and life experience. We also want to acknowledge and thank in particular Marg Hodge and Fay Daniel, who stood down from the Board this year, for their tireless and committed stewardship of our work and purpose.
We also sadly acknowledge and pay tribute to one of our founders, Judy Johnson, who passed away earlier this year. Judy was a passionate pioneer in the development of support services for women experiencing family violence and in recognition of her outstanding and steadfast work, she was the recipient of an Order of Australia medal in 2007. Without people like Judy, organisations like ours would not exist.
And finally, as we turn to the next 12 months, focusing on implementing our Victim Survivor Partnering Framework, our Reconciliation Action Plan, and embarking on innovative and exciting prevention and education programs, we will continue to place Victim Survivors at the centre of all we do and create better impact and outcome measures.
Family violence and the appalling impacts it has with its associated trauma is unacceptable. We look forward to working with you all to be FVREE.