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Department of Children, Youth Justice and Multicultural Affairs - Logan Central

Department of Children, Youth Justice and Multicultural Affairs - Logan Central Child Safety Service Centre provides statutory child protection services.

Department of Communities - Child Protection and Family Support - South Hedland

Child Safety, Family support, Supporting families in crisis.

Department of Communities Child Protection - Busselton

The Department provides a range of child safety and family support services to Western Australian individuals, children and their families, from the Kimberley to the Great Southern regions of the State.

Department of Communities Child Protection and Family Support - Derby

We provide services and partner with others to keep children safe; deliver social and public housing; deliver vital community services, including in emergencies; address homelessness; prevent family and domestic violence; provide stewardship for disability services; and drive the agenda for women's interests, youth, seniors and ageing, carers, and volunteering.

Department of Communities Disability Services - WA

Supporting individuals and families

Department of Education - Participation Team

Participation Team is responsible for supporting students in the final two years of their compulsory education period (typically year 11 and 12), or those turning 16 and 17 years, to comply with the legislative Leaving Age requirements in Western Australia.

Department of Education - Student Wellbeing Package, Metropolitan Region

School-based social workers as part of Student Wellbeing Package in the Brisbane Metropolitan area; support to promote students' learning, mental health, and family wellbeing.

Department of Education and Training - Indigenous Girls Program

Girls Program run at schools across the Darling Downs South West Region to:
- Increase the retention and attainment of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander students in school
- Improve the health & wellbeing of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander girls
- Empowering young Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander girls to increase options for further study & workforce
- Improving safe choices

Department of Youth Justice - Buranda

Support First Nations young people

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 Home and Community Care Inc.

We work with older people to maintain independence and to remain in their own home for as long as possible, and help them to stay well, providing services such as group and individual social support, home maintenance, domestic assistance, transport, meals, food services, personal 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.

Diabetes Australia - Tasmania

Diabetes Australia is the national body for people affected by all types of diabetes and those at risk. Through leadership, prevention, management and research, Diabetes Australia is committed to reducing the impact of diabetes. We work in partnership with diabetes health professionals and educators, researchers and healthcare providers to minimise the impact of diabetes on the Australian community.

Diabetes Australia is a respected and valued source of information, advice and views utilised by government and the community.

We are a trusted diabetes services provider. We develop and deliver support, coordinated care and prevention services – locally and nationally – and partner with other diabetes organisations across Australia to change people’s lives.

Our local services include self management, education and support programs to meet the needs of people throughout their life with diabetes.

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.

Dig In

Dig In feeds Brisbane’s homeless and disadvantaged. During COVID-19 while many services shut we transitioned to a delivery model and cooked between 550-600 meals per Saturday evening. We have now returned to our usual service and are opening up two more spots in a few weeks, as there is more demand for meals and less supply than usual.


Different groups bring different skills, ideas, and values and by working together we can find the best possible solutions for helping others. United behind this common purpose, we aim to develop a platform to do some good and make a difference in our community.

Our objective: improve access to wholesome meals.
Our primary goal at Dig In is to ensure every disadvantaged person in Brisbane has access to a filling, nutritious and wholesome meal.
We engage our community to provide their invaluable experience and expertise to fund, cook and serve our meals.

Dignity Ltd

Supporting people who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness

Directions Disability Support Services Inc

Directions was established in 1994 as an organisation that recognised the need for the whole family of a person with disability to be valued and supported. We provide services to over 150 people and their families across Perth and down to Pinjarra.

We provide opportunities for people with disability to participate in family and community activities of their choice that: encourage lifelong learning; lead to increased independence; promote friendships; and enable people to actively contribute to their community. Our services operate 24 hours a day and include people being supported by host families, and overnight respite either in home or on a break away.

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

Dismantle - BikeRescue

Dismantle is a small charity focussed on connecting young people 'at-risk' to services that can support them transition into adulthood. Presently this mission is achieved through a program called BikeRescue. It's a hands on earn-a-bike process where groups of up to 12 teenagers take apart, paint, clean and rebuild 2 bikes each - 1 for charity as a way to earn a second for themselves. While the process feels like a bike program, the staff facilitators are OTs, youth workers and social workers who use the engagement as outreach for non-clinical therapy and transitioning to additional service or education providers.

Djabugay Aboriginal Corporations

Djabugay Aboriginal Corporations is made up of three entities which operate on behalf, and for the betterment of the Djabugay speaking people of the Kuranda region. The Corporations provide a range of programs, products and services which are geared to revitalising, maintaining and strengthening the Djabugay peoples’ culture, language and connection to their land, as well as equipping and providing them employment and sustainable economic opportunities. The Corporation currently run a range of programs including:

(1) Djabugay Bulmba Rangers Program

(2) Horticulture & Asset Maintenance Program

(3) Language (Ngirrma) & Culture Program

(4) Djabugay Art Activities & Centre

(5) Didjirr Didjirr Family Network

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 20 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.