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.

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.

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

Founder’ Story

Simone Allan

Founder of Women’s Resilience Centre

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

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, and sustainable recovery programs.