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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.

Dominion Grace Ministries - Motivated4Christ Women's Group

We provide support for communities in need eg. drought affected areas and also spiritual guidance to those who are in interested.

Don Valley Primary School

State School

Donations in Kind Inc

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

Donnybrook Balingup Shire

Local Government

Doonside High School

We are a high school in western Sydney with a ICSEA of 907. Our school has a high proportion of First Nations, students with a disability and students from non English speaking background. We run a wide range of wellbeing programs to support the holistic wellbeing of students facing social disadvantage.

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.

Doorways Case Work Salvation Army Townsville

Doorways is a program that is run by the Salvation Army, Australia wide, that primarily journeys with community members to overcome hardship in their lives and build resources and capacity towards independence.

Dorset Primary School

State School

Downs & West Community Support

DWCS is a ministry of the Sisters of Charity. If offers encouragement and practical support to people in rural and remote areas of QLD who are affected by destructive climatic conditions and matters beyond their control.

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.

Drake Village Resource Centre Inc

A community hub offering a range of services and support to locals.
Drake is a small rural village & the DVRC has supported the local community with assisting in programes to help with the ongoing mental stress from fires and drought. Having a coffee outlet helps with the social needs in our small community. The DVRC is run by volunteers, we continue to work and support the local Hall.

Dream Centre Perth

Dream Centre Perth is a local Charity that empowers community engagement to give love, dignity and care for people doing it tough on the streets of Perth.

Our Mission is to Find a Need and Fill it, and Find a Hurt and Heal it.

Our main program at the moment is called Walk the Beat.

This is our regular community engagement walk that occurs on the first Saturday +the third Saturday of every month, to help those experiencing homelessness.

During Walk-the-Beat, we give food, coffee vouchers, bottled water and swags provided by our generous sponsors. We also provide basic first aid care if required by those who have first aid training.

We meet at a set point, get into teams, receive some training and then head off in different planned routes in Northbridge and through the City CBD areas to assist those that are experiencing homelessness.

DreambuildersCare

Low-Cost Supermarket & Op-Shop
Emergency Relief Food
Community meals Cafe - Free Meals 4-nights a week

Dress for Success Hobart

The mission of Dress for Success is to empower women to achieve economic independence by providing a network of support, professional attire and the development tools to help women thrive in work and in life.

Dress for Success Perth

We are a charity with a mission to empower women to achieve economic independence by providing them with professional work attire, a personalised styling service, mentoring and a suite of career skills. We are in the business of building confidence so women can move forward in their career/life journey.

Dress for Success South East Melbourne

DFSSSEM provide personalised styling of appropriate clothing for interviews, coaching in interview presentation and development workshops to increase personal preparedness and confidence after a long period of absence from the workplace or no work experience. We now cater for Men, and the Transgender community, plus a specialised digital literacy program for over 45's.

Dress for Success Sydney

Dress for Success Sydney is a registered charity that improves the employability of women in need in NSW by providing, free of charge, professional clothing, a network of support and the career development tools to help women achieve self-sufficiency.

Drug and Alcohol Services Australia Ltd

Our services include, Sobering Up Shelter, Methamphetamine Outreach, Case management, harm minimisation sessions and ongoing support for COMMIT Court bail and parole clients who are heavy alcohol or drug users; a Therapeutic Community offering non-medical detox leading into a longer-term 20 bed residential program, Transitional After Care and Independent Living Program.

Drug ARM - Brisbane South

Drug ARM is a specialist not-for-profit, non-government organisation that supports people, families and communities to achieve positive transformation through awareness, rehabilitation and management.

Drummond Memorial Public School

Drummond Memorial Public School has a student enrollment of 186 students. Our demographic is approximately 33% Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and 33% English as an additional language or dialect. Of this 33% most of our these students are Ezidi refugees who ave fled from ISIS in Iraq and suffer from severe trauma related to their time under occupation. Our school is predominantly low socio-economic and as a result our school runs breakfast club and lunch club each day. We provide uniforms to many students and find as many ways as we can to subsidise things like camps, school equipment, uniforms and excurions. We are home to a special needs unit for students with autism, a tutorial centre for students repeatedly suspended from other schools and a unit called the Karayuna Centre which runs a program to get students back on track and ready to rejoin their own school in a positive and effective way.

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.