The presentation is inspired by Community Psychology contributions from scholars, researchers, practitioners and survivors of gendered-based violence, and their reflections regarding systems response (e.g., Nnawulezi, et al., 2022; Sullivan, 2018; Goodman, et al, 2017). These contributions are articulated with information gathered (2020- 2024) through a PAR (Participatory Action Research) Project Peer Networks: Gender Violence and Empowerment, implemented through a University-Community Partnership (Vargas-Moniz, et al., 2024). Probing to expand our vision and response capacity to foster good governance and positive interactions among public and private stakeholders, we present lessons learned with the contribution of the Capabilities Theory (Nussbaum, 2000), that supports a broad reflection on ten domains (life, health, ontological security, imagination and thought, emotions, practical reason, affiliation, other species, play, control over environment), regarding challenges and strengths of survivors' on systems advancement and sustainability. Despite the international treaties and conventions, demanding governmental response to structural and conjunctural violence against women, stakeholder's advance critiques about pre-determined paths of service provision, "… shelters a sort of probation system where their lives are very heavy and in suspended mode" (e.g., DN Portuguese Journal, 2025), reflecting the inability for effective and quality response in community-based articulated resources. We aim to present a survivor's and advocates-based analysis on how the community stakeholders, and service-systems would need to articulate to generate effective, accountable and sustainable responses to the women, their families (including children, youth, elders and pets). Moreover, we discuss how the recurrent psychopathologizing of violence is damaging women in their full citizenship rights, and freedoms generating new forms of dependency on professional reports to certify individual basic capacities, and the need to advance other community based supports, including crisis intervention to foster protective factors against continued and prolonged forms of violence reiterated by social and community-based systems (e.g., court decisions, housing instability, employment, educational barriers).