The Wagga Impact Network (WIN) is demanding oft-talked about problems like domestic violence be put on the map, ending abuse and one day wiping out the community's complex social problems.
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WIN - launched on Friday - is a project two years in the making, and brings together various advocacy groups under the one umbrella organisation to address family health issues head on.
WIN committee member Megan Mulrooney, who headed up the establishment of the interagency group, said it will gather as much information as possible about the city's family problems to say to decision-makers: "what are you going to do about it?"
"We were pretty frustrated by things that were happening out there," she said.
"There needs to be a level of management that turns talk into action."
Murrumbidgee Medicare Local executive director of mental health Jenni Campbell is one health bureaucrat who is concerned about Wagga issues going unnoticed by higher authorities.
Ms Campbell is particularly unsettled by the prevalence of domestic violence, and said most of it goes unreported.
"There's still a lot of stigma about domestic violence, still a lot of victim blaming ... agencies aren't necessarily always attune to what the early warning signs are," she said.
"Women who are the main victims of domestic violence can feel disempowered and feel they have no other choice but to remain alone."
Victimisation rates paint a bleak picture for Australian women. Victim surveys estimate over one-third of Australian women have experienced some form of domestic violence.
Ms Campbell said domestic violence isn't always a "black eye or a broken arm", and required more attention and resource sharing between Wagga health groups.
"There are signs and indications that are much more subtle," she said.
"One of the ones we encountered at one stage with a client was her husband had complete control over what she wore, she didn't have access to food.
"There is no level of society that isn't immune to domestic violence."