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YWCA Australia - Southern Highlands

Provide support to women and children who have or who are currently experiencing domestic and family violence. This support can take the form of case management, provision of information, advice or referral.

YWCA Australia - Southern NSW

YWCA Australia is a leading intersectional feminist organisation focused on improving gender equality for women, young women and girls.

YWCA Australia - Sydney

YWCA Australia is our country’s leading feminist organisation. We’re a strong, united, proudly women-led organisation achieving real change through our advocacy and programs for women, young women and girls,

YWCA Australia - Toowoomba

YWCA Australia is our country’s leading feminist organisation. We’re a strong, united, proudly women-led organisation achieving real change through our advocacy and programs for women, young women and girls.

YWCA Australia - Western NSW

YWCA Australia is a leading intersectional feminist organisation focused on improving gender equality for women, young women and girls.

YWCA Canberra - Currawong Child Care Centre

YWCA Currawong is a 92 place Early Childhood Service located in Barton, as part of the DFAT Building. Currawong Child Care Centre is located on the grounds of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) in Barton. Families who work with the department have priority of access to the Centre. However, we also provide care for external families.

YWCA Canberra Clubhouse

YWCA Canberra’s Clubhouse is an innovative, creative, out-of-school learning space where young people from underserved communities can work with adult mentors to develop new skills, explore their own ideas, and build confidence in themselves through the use of technology.

Founded in Boston in 1993, the Clubhouse Network now extends across the world, providing 25,000 youth per year access to resources, skills and experience to help them succeed in their careers, contribute to their communities and lead outstanding lives.

The YWCA Canberra Clubhouse is located in Richardson, in the Tuggeranong region, and is a space where young people can drop by to engage with mentors, embark on new projects, and learn in a safe, friendly and open environment.

YWCA Canberra Housing Support Unit

The YWCA Canberra Housing Support Unit offers transitional housing for women, children and their families who have been sleeping rough, escaping DV, or who are at risk of homelessness. The families that we house often only have the belongings they can carry with them. They are in need of intensive support to help reestablish their lives.

YWCA Canberra Mura Lanyon Youth & Community Centre (MLYCC)

YWCA Canberra’s Mura Lanyon Youth and Community Centre is located in Conder in the South Tuggeranong region of Canberra. The Centre delivers activities and provides information and support that empowers community members and promotes community participation.

Mura Lanyon Youth and Community Centre is a drug-free, alcohol-free and violence-free zone.

A variety of weekly groups and activities are run at the Centre, including young mums programs, Scouts, playgroups, after school programs for kids, and a range of programs and activities for seniors.

YWCA Canberra, Mura Lanyon Youth & Community Centre - Therapeutic Unit

Counselling program dedicated to supporting young people and their families through psychotherapeutic support

YWCA National Housing - Melbourne

YWCA National Housing is the only national women’s housing provider in Australia. We currently provide over 150,000 nights of affordable accommodation to women through our owned and operated properties in Victoria, Queensland and Northern Territory.

YWCA National Housing believe the provision of safe, secure and affordable accommodation is a foundation for empowering women to lead a fulfilled life. We are a regulated housing provider, meeting the applicable regulatory performance standards wherever our accommodation is located.

We provide and advocate for improved access to safe, secure and affordable housing for low income Australians, particularly women and their children. Safe, secure and affordable housing is fundamental to women’s social, economic and educational participation, and the realisation of gender equality and women’s human rights.

Zeehan Neighbourhood Centre

Zeehan Neighbourhood centre Incorporated seeks to be part of a community that improves the circumstances of people experiencing poverty and/or hardship.
The House aims to build capacity and meet the needs of families, individuals and children who are vulnerable.
The House serves as a place where people who need support can find care; are encouraged and informed; can access skills, knowledge and resources and can actively participate in and contribute to their community

Zig Zag Young Women's Resource Centre Inc

Zig Zag Young Women’s Resource Centre Inc. is a community based not-for-profit organisation in Brisbane that provides a number of services to young women and the wider community.

Zoe Support Australia

Zoe Support Australia’s dedicated team of staff and volunteers provide daily advocacy and support to young mothers, under 25, in Mildura and surrounds. With a culture of Connecting, Inspiring, Learning and unconditional positive regard we provide holistic, wrap around and early intervention services to support young mothers along their parenting and education journey, aspiring to break the cycle of generational welfare dependency. Providing social and pre accredited education programs onsite, including offering transport and volunteer childcare when required.

Zonta Club of Canberra Breakfast Inc

Zonta Club of Canberra Breakast (a charitable organisation) working to Empower women through Service and Advocacy. Our club provides toiletry packs to women when entering a refuge, a kitchen pack when leaving the refuge and obtaining their own housing, together with a linen pack and more toiletries.

Zonta House Refuge Association Inc

Zonta House is one of the largest refuge association's in Western Australia and has extensive experience in developing programs, delivering services and achieving successful outcomes. The four service arms of Zonta: Crisis Accommodation, Transitional Accommodation, Safer Pathways and Positive Pathways; provides a continuum of necessary support and opportunities, for women and their families to achieve sustainable and positive individual and community outcomes. We assist women in crisis to recover from their trauma and engage effectively in planning their future.

Improve the lives of women who have experienced, or are at risk of experiencing, family and domestic violence.

Australian Red Cross

Our vision
Human dignity, peace, safety and wellbeing for all.

Our purpose
We support and empower people and communities in times of vulnerability.

Our purpose is to reduce suffering across Australia and internationally through mobilising the power of humanity.

St Vincent de Paul Society

The St Vincent de Paul Society’s members and volunteers reach out to the most vulnerable in our community through our Conferences, Special Works and Vinnies shops. Members and volunteers assist people in need and do not discriminate against cultural, religious or political beliefs.