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Department of Justice - Mirrabooka

We support vulnerable youth (and their families) that have been involved with the justice department and assist them with any barriers/issues that have stopped them attending school etc, helping them access support within the community so they are not involved with our department again.

Dept Communities Child Protection & Family Support (Statewide Referral & Response Service)

We work proactively with families to build safety around children and prevent the need for children to enter the out-of-home-care system.

Derby Aboriginal Short Stay Accommodation

Derby Aboriginal Short Stay Accommodation. We offer a great place to stay in Derby, when you or your family are visiting whether it be for health or training reasons, or perhaps big family gatherings or cultural events.

Derby Hospital

Provide medical care.

Desert Blue Connect

Desert Blue Connect Incorporated provides holistic services for women and families which include women’s health, unplanned pregnancy support, sexual assault services, family violence response, crisis accommodation for women and children and primary prevention.

Desert Blue Connect - Rural Support Services

Counselling services are available to men and women across the shires of Morawa, Mingenew, Three Springs, Yalgoo, Mullewa, Carnamah, Coorow, Perenjori. We also provide specialised services, programs and events in response to community need.

Devonport Community House

A drop in centre for all of the community, providing emergency food relief, onsite family support worker, assistance with finding the right service providers for the clients needs, NILS Loans, assistance with copying/printing, Devonport Community Garden, community foodshed (cheap/free fresh food), The Devonport Playhouse (0-5 year olds drop in play centre), free and cheap clothing, free events for local low socioeconomic neighbourhood. Provides a safe space for all.

DFVSAS Shoalhaven

Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault counselling

Dharriwaa Elders Group

Projects of the Group aim to support Aboriginal Elders to resume leadership roles in the community, keeping active and healthy; promote local Aboriginal cultural knowledge and identity; and develop the Walgett Aboriginal community. We operate an Elders Centre & keeping place and in the 2023 year activities also focussed on Elders support and developing Elders' housing, providing food relief, working for drinking water and food quality and security, responses to emergencies, supporting community members to reduce fine debt, working to further our Action Plan for Children and Young People, working for better management of waters and Aboriginal Cultural Heritage, advocacy and on Country activities.

We have recently opened a new shopfront, Galuma-li, that is the home of our new Youth Wellbeing Service and will be another place that community members can access services and goods that they need.

Diamond Valley Community Support

We are an emergency relief, informational and referral organization supporting people in financial and personal crisis in the Banyule and Nillumbik regions of Melbourne.

Diamond Women Ltd

Diamond is the leading support service for women and their families facing an unplanned pregnancy. We provide best practice client centered wrap around support in the way of counselling, case work, mentoring programs, maternity and baby items.

We are dedicated to providing excellence in care, compassion and genuine support free of charge.

Dignity Ltd

Supporting people who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness

Directions Health Services

Directions provides a range of services and programs for people affected by Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug issues (ATOD), their families and the wider community.

These services and programs include:

Althea Wellness Centre
The Althea Wellness Centre is a small clinic which is based on holistic health principles.

Arcadia House Detox, Transition and Day Programs:
Arcadia House offers a selective, non- medicated detox and an 8 week residential program, which is based on Therapeutic Community Principles.

Counselling:
Counselling and support for individuals, families and friends affected by ATOD issues.

Healthy Food Healthy Me:
The Healthy Food Healthy Me program aims to assist the health and wellbeing of people who use Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs by distributing nutritious food to people who use our Needle and Syringe Programs.

Needle and Syringe Program:
Provides clean injecting equipment, information on safe injecting practices, and general health information

Divine Mercy Church

Divine Mercy Church is non profit organisation. We are catering the needs of our community with different activities in the church by connecting women and children that experiences domestic violence through counselling, feeding the homeless, children are neglecting have the Kidz Zone with programs such as music, dramas, sharing, arts and crafts, instruments, story telling, reading etc. Solo parents meeting up every fortnight, also link every group into the right services with other agencies. We are running the feeding ministry, Kidz Zone, Community Dove Sports, Youth, Young Adults, Young Couples, Men's Group as well as Women's Group, Leaderships meeting, R.U.N Festival every year etc.

Djarindjin Aboriginal Corporation

Provide community services for the Djarindjin and Dampier Peninsula communities.
We own and run our own store, roadhouse and caravan park and our own airport.

Djirra

Djirra is an Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation with over 22 years’ experience accompanying Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, and their children, on their individual journeys.

We find solutions through Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women sharing their stories, journeys, and experiences.

Djirra celebrates women’s strength and resilience. We are committed to a future without family violence.

Our Koori Women's place relies on the generosity of organisations and community members like yourself, for practical and essential items such as clothing, toiletries and food relief.

These types of donations play a significant role in assisting our team with providing the basics for our women who are escaping family violence.

Domestic Violence Action Centre

Domestic Violence Action Centre (DVAC) is a community-based organisation, committed to preventing and ending violence against women and children. We provide services in greater Ipswich including all Ipswich Metro, into Goodna, out to Laidley and just past Gatton, down to Boonah and up to Toogoolawah; and; Toowoomba including all suburbs, the Darling Downs, part of the Maranoa (excluding Roma), and the townships of Warwick, Stanthorpe, Dalby, Chinchilla, Goondiwindi, Oakey, and Pittsworth.

The primary focus of DVAC is on supporting women and children to increase their safety and wellbeing, advocacy, court support, counselling services, group work and children's work.

In addition to this, DVAC works with communities to prevent domestic violence through community education, community development, projects and events.

Services include:

Telephone information, referral, advocacy and support services to women, children, and young people.

Court support for Ipswich, Gatton, Toogoolawah, Toowoomba, Warwick, Stanthorpe, Goondiwindi, Chinchilla, Pittsworth, Dalby, and Oakey Courts.

Counselling and support services for women, children, and young people in service as well as some satellite locations.

Group work for women, children, and young people.

Safety upgrades for women wanting to stay in their homes.

Support for young people who have been impacted by domestic and family violence or sexual violence and have started to use violence against their mother or female caregiver. Read more »

Service Against Sexual Violence (working with individuals 14 years and up - therapeutic support for recent and historical abuse trauma). »

Youth Sexual Violence Service (working with individuals aged 12 – 18 years, Toowoomba only).

Men’s Behaviour Change Program (Toowoomba only).

School community education sessions (Ipswich only).

Community development, education and awareness raising events.

Specialised training and resources to other service providers and stakeholders.

Domestic Violence Crisis Service

DVCS is a feminist-informed community organisation that seeks to address violence and abuse in family and intimate partner relationships and to promote respect in these relationships.
We encourage people who use violence and abuse in family and intimate partner relationships to take responsibility for, and cease, this behaviour.

Domestic Violence Prevention Centre

DVPC is the specialist domestic and family violence service that operates from Coolangatta to Beenleigh. We support women, young people and children who have experienced domestic violence and facilitate behaviour change programs for people who use violence in their relationships. We provide counselling, safety planning, court support, advocacy, information and resources as well as engage the community in awareness-raising and activism activities.

Domestic Violence Service Management - Wilcannia Safe House

Domestic Violence NSW Service Management (DVSM) is a registered charity which aims to prevent and to provide support for people escaping/experiencing domestic and family violence and homelessness.

DVSM provides support services in an urban context (Inner Sydney), in a suburban context (Western Sydney) and in remote rural NSW (Wilcannia). DVSM also provides professional services (Insight Exchange) to build capacity and share learning about domestic and family violence within the Community Services sector and more broadly with the wider ecosystem of corporations, organisations, institutions, online and local communities.

Donations in Kind Inc

To enable Rotarians, Rotary Clubs and Districts to assist disadvantaged communities and individuals through humanitarian aid projects

Doors Wide Open

Doors Wide Open offers compassionate caring peer-led support, walking alongside individuals and families impacted by methamphetamine and other drugs and related chronic life challenges.

Doors Wide Open aims to foster recovery by providing personal, social, and pragmatic support through a peer-led service model, connecting with other agencies and networking for the benefit of service users and the broader community.

Dr Steve Burroughs Foundation

Dr Steve Burroughs Foundation Aims and Objectives
An awareness
a. To promote understanding of struggling indigenous people within remote Australian communities
b. To advance the care of indigenous people within remote Australia communities
c. To organise events and activities to generate income for the cause.
d. To facilitate the purchase, development and management of products for the use in training and facilitating Human Sustainability within remote indigenous communities.

A multicultural training service
a. To create employment opportunities by giving training to indigenous communities and provide efficiencies in basic skills leading to
b. To promote work in remote indigenous communities to assist the education of poor people.
c. In the interests of public health, to educate people about Well-Being fostering Human Sustainability e.g. women and Children safety in the remote regions of Australia.
d. To carry out these activities in remote indigenous communities.

Drummond Street Services – Ready Steady Family

We provide counselling to individuals, couples, children and families presenting with relationship, mental health and well-being risks. We delivered 9,886 sessions to 3,179 clients and we also delivered 126 community / group / seminar events to 1,399 attendees as part of our community engagement and education.

Drummond Street Services Inc.

Established 131 years ago, we provide counselling services to individuals, couples, children and families presenting with issues with relationships, mental health and well-being risks.