When you're not safe at home, a job can be a lifeline. It's a paycheck, a connection to the world and even a chance to raise the alarm. But when your ability to work is sabotaged, the road back to the workforce can be long and difficult, even after you’ve left. 

In episode five of There’s No Place Like Home: Paths to Healing, Sally Spicer sits down with Dr Anne Summers AO, who founded Australia's first women's refuge fifty years ago, and Belinda Casselden, a survivor advocate who struggled for years to return to sustainable, meaningful work after abuse despite an impressive career.

Together they explore: 

• Career sabotage: How abuse can undermine a victim’s professional life and create total dependence on the perpetrator.
• Long-term impacts: How financial abuse impacts a woman’s financial security over her entire lifetime.
• Reclaiming your career: Belinda’s personal journey of returning to the workforce and the innovative programs helping women find stable work. 
• The role of the workplace: The critical difference employers can make in helping address Australia's domestic violence crisis.

More on There’s No Place Like Home: Paths to Healing:

• Learn more about There’s No Place Like Home: Paths to Healing
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• Learn more about CommBank Next Chapter
• If you or someone you know is affected by domestic, family and sexual violence, contact the national service 1800RESPECT for free and confidential counselling, information and service referral. Call 1800 737 732, chat online 24/7 at www.1800respect.org.au or use the text line on 0458 737 732
• If you or someone you know is an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person in need of a culturally safe support line, you can call 13YARN (13 92 76)
• In an emergency, or if you are not feeling safe, always call the police on 000

There’s No Place Like Home: Paths to Healing is an FW podcast made in partnership with Commonwealth Bank, who through CommBank Next Chapter, are supporting people within Australia experiencing financial abuse, even if you don't bank with them.