Support for women and children escaping family violence.

Marian Community

Services include emergency accommodation, case management, court support and counselling for women and children who are impacted by family violence.

Referrals through access points only - depending on where the person is, the access point will vary.

Melbourne City Mission - Western Region Accommodation Program

Services including crisis/emergency accomodation for youth (16-24)Referrals from HSS Access Points Only.

Homelessness Support Services (HSS) Assists families who are homeless or at risk of homelessness through the following services: Family Support, A Place to Call Home, Intensive Family Support, The Children's Resource Coordinator &  Homelessness Network Coordinator. Community Care Provider. Services include: housing assistance, homelessness support and assistance, drug and alcohol counselling and meals services and food assistance. Housing assistance, meals services and food assistance.

UnitingCare Ballarat

UnitingCare Ballarat is a not-for-profit community service agency that has delivered support to thousands of people in our community for over 35 years. 
The agency delivers over 55 services across Aged & Disability Services, Alcohol & Drugs, Housing, Lifeline & Family Counselling and Welfare & Support Services.

The RDNS Homeless Persons' Program (HPP) involves a team of specialist community health nurses who work with and on behalf of individuals and groups currently experiencing homelessness.

The aims of the RDNS Homeless Persons Program are to provide holistic healthcare to people experiencing homelessness and to improve their access to general community services. We work with services to arrange healthcare that is accessible and relevant to the needs of the homeless, and at an equal level to that received by the general community.

RDNS Homeless Persons Program

Homelessness support for women and children

Warrawee Women's Shelter

Zontas House Refuge Association

 Short and medium term accommodation for lone women in crisis.

The Gender Centre (NSW)

The Gender Centre has been providing services to the transgender & gender diverse communities since the1980’s. Throughout this time The Gender Centre has been providing direct client support and referrals to thousands of transgender people each year as well as providing a wide range of services and support to transgender people incarcerated in NSW correctional centre’s  services provided by the centre include

 •	Counselling,
•	Resource development,
•	Outreach to clients confined to their homes or in hospitals,
•	Night Outreach to street based Transgender sex workers, 
•	Gaol Outreach to transgender people incarcerated in NSW correctional facilities,
•	Court and Cell Outreach,
•	Community Case management,
•	Crisis Residential housing, 
•	Transitional housing, 
•	Support group for the Over 55’s, 
•	Advocacy,
•	Transgender Anti-Violence Project, 
•	Tenancy Support, 
•	Training and Education for service providers,
•	Support to transgender people in Rural and Regional areas,
•	Transtopia Youth Group,
•	Parents of Transgender children group,
•	Male to Female group,
•	Female to Male group,
•	Queer Agenda group,
•	Young Women’s group,
•	Women’s group and
•	HIV/AIDS information.

Our work supports young people who are homeless or at risk of being homeless in their choices about life and learning so that they may successfully obtain and maintain safe, secure and appropriate housing.

Project Youth Inc.

The Youth Outreach service supports young people aged 16 to 25 years who are homeless or at-risk of homelessness. Workers assist young people with finding suitable, safe, secure and affordable accommodation; link / reconnect them into education, employment and training, help them develop basic living and life skills. E.g.: developing a budget, with the main aim of assisting people to become independent and have established supports and connections within their local community. A major focus is the young person's emotional and mental health issues that have been impacted on due to their current situation/previous trauma. Youth outreach program work alongside the young person until they are settled and confident that they are able to live independently. In the case of youth services being unable to pick up the young person case at the time of referral, they are placed on the Interim Response list. Weekly
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contact is made until the young person case is picked up by the youth worker.
Eligibility: Young people aged 16 to 25 years who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.

Uniting Wimmera

Services including foster care, residential/out-of-home care, after school hours care, family day care, kindergarten/preschool,inclusion support, problem gambling counselling, family counselling, financial counselling, disability support packages, respite care, access programs, Mental Health, crisis/emergency accommodation, accommodation placement and/or support, school -focused youth service, No Interest Loan Scheme, Step Up Loan Scheme, Kinship Care, Child FIRST and Rural and Remote Engagement Disabled Access
Yes

Hours
9.00 am - 5.00 pm, Mon - Fri.  After hours answering machine

Provides crisis accommodation to women and children dealing with homelessness due to domestic violence or sexual abuse.

Other numbers to call for safety and support
Police - for urgent assistance 000
Family Violence Counselling Support Service 1800 608 122
Homeless Number 1800 800 588

Jireh House Women's Shelter

Aboriginal Homeless People (NSW)

Open 24 hours on weekends and public holidays. Crisis Care assists people in crises as a result of child abuse or neglect, children needing foster care or other alternative care, domestic violence, high risk adolescence behaviour or need, parent-child disputes, homelessness, urgent financial need, suicidal behaviour, personal trauma, natural disasters like floods.: EntryProcedures If you need urgent help outside office hours, call the Crisis Care telephone service. Crisis Care responds quickly to callers and  provides child abuse investigations, placement and support to children in Families SA care,   emergency food and material assistance  assessment, counselling, information and support, referrals to other agencies.

DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT

Previously Known As Family and Youth Services: Previously Known As Families SA: Previously Known As Children, Youth and Family Services

DUBBO EMERGENCY ACCOMMODATION PROJECT INC

Provides crisis accommodation for women with or without children who are escaping domestic violence or sexual assault and may be homeless.

Community Accomodation and Support Agency Inc

Short term supported housing, support, counselling, budgeting assistance provision of Emergency relief.

Kalyan Youth Service Inc is a Specialist Homelessness Service that provides crisis and short term supported accommodation and associated support services for young people aged 16 to 21 years. Service cannot take couples. Youth Accommodation Services

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