DHHS Area: North Eastern Melbourne

Georgina Martina Inc

Georgina Martina Inc. provides support and emergency accommodation for women and children experiencing family violence. They operate two high-security women’s refuges based in Melbourne – Martina and Georgina Women’s Refuges.

This service can’t be contacted directly. Contact can be made through Safe Steps: (03) 9928 9600.

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Contact:

Contact via Safe Steps

03 9928 9600

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Switchboard

Switchboard provides peer-driven support services for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and gender diverse, intersex, queer and asexual (LGBTIQA+) people, their families, allies and communities. Switchboard’s peer-led services include Rainbow Door and QLife.

Contact:

(03) 9663 2474

admin@switchboard.org.au

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Rainbow Door

Rainbow Door is a free specialist LGBTIQA+ helpline providing information, support, referral and short term case management. We support people of all ages and identities with issues including family and intimate partner violence (including elder abuse), relationships, mental health and wellbeing.

Contact:

1800 729 367

support@rainbowdoor.org.au

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Hours:

Mon-Sun, 10:00am-5:00pm

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Djirra

Djirra is an Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation providing practical support to Aboriginal people who are currently experiencing family violence or have in the past.

Djirra offers Aboriginal women counselling sessions, safety planning discussions and follow-up support, financial assistance through Flexible Support Packages, and personalised referrals to specialist support services with issues such as housing and homelessness, drugs and alcohol, parenting, debt and employment.

Djirra’s Aboriginal Family Violence Legal Service supports Aboriginal people affected by family violence and non-Aboriginal people experiencing family violence who are parents of Aboriginal children. They provide legal advice and representation, including court representation in relation to Intervention Orders, Family Law, Child Protection and Victims of Crime assistance.

Djirra provides services across Victoria with offices in metropolitan and regional areas. Their services include telephone and face-to-face legal and non-legal support.

Contact:

1800 105 303

info@djirra.org.au

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Hours:

Mon-Fri 9:00am-10:00pm

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Boorndawan Willam Aboriginal Healing Services

Boorndawan Willam Aboriginal Healing Services (BWAHS) provides specialist family violence support for the Eastern Metropolitan Region and Inner and Outer East, including services and programs to Aboriginal individuals and families who are experiencing, at risk of experiencing family violence or use violence.

BWAHS provides family violence and trauma-informed intensive case management, integrated family services responses and evidence-based therapeutic programs to individuals and groups for a whole of family approach.

Contact:

03 9212 0200

bwahs@bwahs.com.au

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Hours:

Mon-Fri 9:00am-5:00pm

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Bethany Community Support

Bethany Community Support provides counselling, support and advice for women and children affected by family violence in the Barwon Region, including financial counselling for women who are leaving a relationship.

They work closely with sexual assault counselling services, police, courts and other services and may be able to help find short-term or crisis accommodation. They also offer Court Support 4 Kids for children accompanying their mother to the Geelong Magistrates’ Court.

Contact:

03 5278 8122

info@bethany.org.au

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Hours:

Mon-Fri 9:00am-5:00pm

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Berry Street – North and East Melbourne

Berry Street – North and East Melbourne provides phone and face to face support – including risk assessments, safety planning, referrals to emergency accommodation, therapeutic services for children, court and legal support – for people experiencing family violence in the Hume Moreland, North Eastern Melbourne and Inner Eastern Melbourne regions.

Contact:

03 9450 4700

dvointake@berrystreet.org.au

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Hours:

Mon-Fri 9:00am-5:00pm

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Good Samaritan Inn

Good Samaritan Inn provides crisis, short-term and transitional accommodation and support for women, children and young people who are experiencing family violence or homelessness.
Their services include crisis and transitional accommodation, case management support, child and young person-focused and trauma-informed support, risk assessment and safety planning, access to transitional housing, and legal and financial services.

Contact:

General enquiries: 0435 779 064

Referrals: 0415 130 958

info@goodsamaritaninn.org.au

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Hours:

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Elizabeth Morgan House

Elizabeth Morgan House provides culturally safe, holistic family violence support for Aboriginal women and children as well as parents of Aboriginal children, partners and ex-partners of Aboriginal people in Victoria. They can assist with housing, financial difficulties, Child Protection concerns, and school matters; as well as referrals and advocacy to services such as legal, medical and health services, drug and alcohol counselling, financial counselling and children’s services.

Contact:

1800 364 297

info@emhaws.org.au

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Hours:

24 hours / 7 days