Domestic violence help
in your region
Domestic violence help
in your region
Below is a list of family support services, including family education and counselling services, family planning services, local day care options and government departments. If you cannot find local family services for your area, there is a list of state and national family support services at the bottom of this page.
A trained child support worker is on site and will relieve the parent of care if she needs to attend appointments.
The support may include outings with the parents’ permission, liaison with schools for enrolments, play therapy, referrals for mother and or child to a host of other agencies that may assist with the variety of needs the consumer presents with.
These services cover the Wheatbelt and Upper Great Southern, and based in Northam and Narrogin.
REED works in partnership with families, early childhood professionals and the broader community to ensure children are happy, healthy and develop a love of learning. They provide a number of services including centre based care, before and after school care, and vacation care. They also offer Family Day Care (FDC) in the home of Educators and ‘In Venue’ FDC with a single Educator in community facilities. FDC is a high quality, flexible child care service which is provided in a safe and secure home environment or a community facility and is offered in towns where the number of young children is too small for a dedicated child care centre to be provided
1800RESPECT is a national sexual assualt and domestic violence counselling service.
1800RESPECT provide support and counselling for:
They can be contacted by phone or online chat, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The department of child protection and family support provide and fund a range of child safety and family support services throughout the state including mandatory reporting investigations and training, Working with Children Checks, fostering and adoption services, counselling and outreach programs, crisis accommodation, homelessness services, and emergency services support.