Type: Specialist services
Sector/setting: Community services, Justice, courts & legal
Community Legal Centres provide free legal advice, advocacy and support.
Level 3, 225 Bourke Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia
Type: Specialist services
Sector/setting: Community services, Justice, courts & legal, Response
Court Network offers personal support, information and referral to people going to court.
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: Outreach services, Specialist services, Counselling services
Sector/setting: Community services, Aboriginal services, Children, Housing, Men's services, Early intervention, Response, Recovery, Women
Grampians Community Health provides coordinated health and community services (including family violence support) in the Central Grampians and Wimmera sub regions.
- (03) 5358 7400 (Stawell)
- (03) 5352 6200 (Ararat)
- (03) 5362 1200 (Horsham)
Type: Outreach services, Specialist services
Sector/setting: CALD, Community services, Children, Justice, courts & legal, Response, Women
inTouch Multicultural Centre Against Family Violence works with women a children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds (CALD) who are victim survivors of domestic
- (03) 9413 6500 (9.00am - 5.00pm)
- Toll Free 1800 755 988
GPO Box 2905, Melbourne Vic 3001
Type: Specialist services, Counselling services
Sector/setting: Health, Community services, Aboriginal services, Children, Men's services, Recovery, Sexual assault, Women, Elder abuse
Community Health Service offering more than 120 programs including family violence and elder abuse services.
Offices in Bundoora, Bairnsdale, Churchill, Moe, Morwell, Sale, Traralgon, Warragul, Wonthaggi, Melbourne CBD
Type: Specialist services
Sector/setting: Justice, courts & legal, Response
The court can make intervention orders to protect people who have experienced violent, threatening or abusive behaviour.
Type: Specialist services
Sector/setting: Justice, courts & legal, Elder abuse
Seniors Rights Victoria offers a range of services to support older Victorians experiencing abuse.
Level 4, 533 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
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: Justice, courts & legal
This service offers free legal information in English and 14 other languages, from Monday to Friday.
Multiple locations around Victoria
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: Specialist services, Private rental brokerage
Sector/setting: Housing, Justice, courts & legal
Legal assistance and social work support for women who are facing eviction into homelessness (including low income women in public, community or private rental).
- 1800 606 313
- (03) 8636 4408
Central CBD location
Type: Specialist services
Sector/setting: Training and education, Justice, courts & legal, Women
Women's Legal Service is a state-wide community organisation providing free confidential legal advice, assistance and referral for women.
- (03) 8622 0600
- 1800 133 302
Level 10, 277 William Street, Melbourne VIC 3000