Type: Crisis service, Women's refuge services, Specialist services, After hours services
Sector/setting: CALD, Disability, Children, Early intervention, Response, Recovery, Sexual assault, Women, Elder abuse
safe steps provides telephone crisis counselling, referral, information and support, and is the central contact point for women’s Refuges in Victoria.
- 1800 015 188 - Toll Free 24 hours 7 days a week
- (03) 9928 9600
Type: Counselling services, Support group
Sector/setting: Aboriginal services, Children, Men's services, Response
Dardi Munwurro delivers a range of tailored family violence, healing and behaviour change programs and services to Aboriginal men and youth.
Central office: 558 High Street, Preston, Victoria | Offices are also located in Bairnsdale, Shepparton, Warrnambool, Morwell & Dandenong
Type: Specialist services, Counselling services
Sector/setting: Aboriginal services, Justice, courts & legal, Prevention, Response, Recovery, Sexual assault, Women
Djirra provides telephone and face-to-face legal and non-legal support to Aboriginal people who are experiencing or have experienced family violence.
- Freecall 1800 105 303
- (03) 9244 3333 (Abbotsford)
- (03) 5562 5755 (Warrnambool)
- (03) 5153 2322 (Bairnsdale)
- (03) 5021 3200 (Mildura)
- (03) 5304 2400 (Ballarat)
- (03) 4435 0500 (Bendigo)
- (03) 5100 1700 (Morwell)
Statewide service with office locations in Abbotsford (Melbourne Metro), Bendigo, Morwell, Mildura Bairnsdale, Warrnambool and Mildura
Type: Crisis service, Outreach services, Women's refuge services, Specialist services, Case management, Counselling services
Sector/setting: Aboriginal services, Children, Housing, Justice, courts & legal, Response, Recovery, Women
Elizabeth Morgan House Aboriginal Women's Services seeks to promote social justice and equity for Aboriginal women and children experiencing Family Violence.
P.O. Box 167 Fairfield, Vic 3078
Type: Specialist services, Counselling services
Sector/setting: Health, Community services, Children, Men's services, Recovery, Women, Elder abuse
Peninsula Health offers community health services in Frankston, Hastings, Mornington and Rosebud, including family violence counselling and Men's Behaviour Change Programs
- 1300 665 781 (ask to speak to an access worker)
Offices in Frankston, Hastings, Mornington and Rosebud
Type: Crisis service, Outreach services, Women's refuge services, Specialist services, After hours services, Case management, Counselling services
Sector/setting: Community services, Aboriginal services, Children, Prevention, Early intervention, Response, Recovery, Sexual assault, Women
The SAFV Centre offers a wide range of free and confidential services for adults, children and young people who have experienced sexual assault or family violence.
- Geelong: 03 5222 4318
- Wimmera: 03 5381 1211
- Sexual Assault Crisis Line (24 Hours): 1800 806 292
- Safe Steps (24 Hours): 1800 015 188
Type: Specialist services
Sector/setting: Training and education, Aboriginal services, Children, Prevention, Early intervention
The Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency (VACCA) is the lead Aboriginal child and family welfare organisation in Victoria.
Multiple locations in Metropolitan area
Type: Specialist services
Sector/setting: Aboriginal services, Justice, courts & legal
Provides referrals, advice/information, duty work or case work assistance to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Victoria.
- (03) 9418 5999
- Toll free: 1800 064 865
Offices located across Victoria.
Type: Crisis service, Outreach services, Specialist services
Sector/setting: Aboriginal services, Housing, Response, Women
This service supports women and young people who are at risk of or experiencing homelessness or family violence in Dandenong, Casey, Cardinia, Mornington Peninsula & Frankston.
- Women’s Services Dandenong (03) 9791 6111
- Women’s Services Frankston (03) 9770 286
- Women’s Services Casey Cardinia (Berwick & Pakenham) (03) 9703 0044
- Women’s Services Cranbourne (03) 5996 3333
Offices in Berwick, Pakenham, Cranbourne, Frankston & Dandenong
Type: Peak body
Sector/setting: Disability, Women
An organisation made up of women with disabilities who support women with disabilities to achieve their rights in Victoria.
Level 9, 255 Bourke Street Melbourne 3000
Type: Specialist services
Sector/setting: Health, Prevention, Women
Women's Health in the South East works to improve the health and wellbeing of women in the Southern Metropolitan Region of Melbourne, with a focus on the prevention of violence
Level 1, 70 St Kilda Road, St Kilda, VIC 3182