The Hon Tanya Plibersek MP
Minister for Social Services
Louise Miller-Frost MP
Member for Boothby
The Albanese Labor Government is investing over $715,000 to improve access to crisis accommodation support for First Nations women and children in Adelaide.
Thanks to this investment First Nations Healing, an Aboriginal Community-Controlled Organisation (ACCO), will be able to increase the number of spaces available and expand supports for First Nations women and children in their time of need.
Women and children will also benefit from the addition of a new children's playground and improvements to site security with an upgraded CCTV system.
Crisis accommodation is a central frontline service for victim-survivors of family, domestic, and sexual violence, and is key to making sure those who need it receive trauma-informed services and supports.
This project is one of 17 funded under the Albanese Government's more than $32 million Increasing Capacity of Crisis Accommodation Services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples program, and builds on successful outcomes in the ACT and Tasmania, providing wraparound supports such as access to psychologists, social workers, youth groups, and weekly yarning circles.
The program is also a priority under the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Action Plan 2023-2025 (Action Plan), recognising the disproportionately high number of First Nations women and children who experience violence.
