About us

Road Trauma Support Services Victoria (RTSSV) is a community based, not for profit organisation offering a state-wide counselling, education and support service to people whose lives have been impacted by road trauma.

Our Mission is to reduce the incidence and impact of road trauma by counselling and supporting, educating and empowering people.

In working to deliver our mission, we provide free, professional face-to-face and telephone counselling services across Victoria to people who have been affected directly or indirectly by motor vehicle crashes including; bereaved family members, witnesses, drivers, first on scene, emergency service personnel, families and friends of people injured in the crash.

Through active engagement of people who have personal experience in the affects of crashes on theirs and others lives, we are able to offer a number of support options including Peer support.

In addition, we deliver a range of education programs addressing the behaviours and attitudes of drivers in order to reduce the incidence of crashes and the associated trauma and grief.

Our education programs, delivered by trained educators in conjunction with Emergency Service personnel and volunteers who talk about their personal experience, are aimed at community groups, the business community, CALD communities as well as offenders through the magistrates’ court.

It is this mix of programs and the close collaboration and involvement of professional staff working with volunteers that makes Road Trauma Support Services unique in Victoria.