Your donation will support our free (or low cost) services, with a focus on our:
1. Women with disabilities and domestic violence program: 94% of women with disabilities have experienced domestic violence or sexual assault. We are the only service in the Illawarra with a dedicated program for these women. We provide free counselling, advocacy, health education on healthy relationships, consent, e-safety and sexual health, as well as training for disability workers and carers.
2. Young women's program: promoting empowerment, resilience and protection, including counselling, outreach into high schools across the Illawarra with specialised programs for girls and young women on women's health, mental health, sexual health, healthy relationships, and e-safety and programs with boys on healthy relationships, including all forms of violence.
3. Mothers and Sons program – a six-week program, supporting mothers to raise respectful, non-violent healthy boys
4. Telephone counselling service, for women in the Illawarra and Shoalhaven, counselling and referrals provided by a highly experienced social worker.
3. A domestic and family violence caseworker, facilitating wrap around support services for women escaping, experiencing or recovering from domestic violence. Almost 800 women came to the Centre in 2017-18 presenting with DFV.
Your donation goes directly to supporting women in need. thank you
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