GenWest

Our health promotion and primary prevention program plans and implements activities designed to promote women’s health, safety and wellbeing across three key areas – sexual and reproductive health, mental health, and prevention of violence against women.

Our family violence service provides women and children with the range of services they require while in crisis – such as court support, crisis housing and case management – through to services designed to promote healing and recovery, such as children’s counselling.

The Family Violence Crisis Outreach Service provides crisis and short-term support to women and their children to live free from violence
* Provides support, information, resources and referral relating to family or domestic violence for all women living in the western metropolitan region of Melbourne
* Assistance provided to obtain legal, social security, housing and other benefits
* Accommodation assistance and referral
* Referral to support groups, longer-term support etc
* Counselling and support for children