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.

MacKillop Family Services – South West Emergency Care for Children

South West Emergency Care for Children supports families with children up to 11 years of age within their own home when the family may be experiencing a crisis.
Crises include family sickness including hospitalisation, bereavement, or situations that place the family under stress. When parents find themselves in crisis, a Family Support Worker may come to the family’s home to care for the children.
 
Services may include:
• In-home child-care
• Transport to school or day-care
• Helping prepare meals for the children
• Washing/bathing the children
• Additional practical support as determined upon assessment
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Lil’ Tigers Early Learning Centre

Lil’ Tigers ELC is an approved Childcare Centre which is licenced for up to 17 children. They offer childcare for children from 6 weeks to 12 years old. 
 
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Mackillop Family Services

MacKillop Family Services deliver support for young people and families so they can heal from past traumas and develop to their potential through our services:

  • Foster care
  • Intensive family support
  • Indigenous healing
  • Family care support
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Lingalonga Child Care Centre

Lingalonga Child Care Centre is a child care centre that caters for children 0-5 years old.

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Life Without Barriers

Life Without Barriers services include:

  • Foster Care
  • Children and Families
  • Mental Health programs
  • Disability support
  • Residential Care
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander services
  • Aged Care Services
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Kununurra Waringarri Aborginal Corporation – Social and Emotional Wellbeing

Social and emotional wellbeing is a term used to describe the social, emotional, spiritual, and cultural wellbeing of a person. It recognises that connection to land, culture, spirituality, family, and community are important to people and can impact on their wellbeing. It also recognises that a person’s social and emotional wellbeing is influenced by policies and past events. The SEWB team offers assistance in the form of:

  • Men and Women Yarning
  • Brief intervention
  • Back to Country Healing
  • Deadly Thinking Workshop which is for Aboriginal communities to help in the prevention of suicide, providing the tools to confront core issues
  • Domestic Violence
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Kununurra Primary Health Centre

The Kununurra Primary Health Centre provides a one-stop-shop health care hub for the East Kimberley community enabling more people in the region to access the care they need closer to home with fewer people requiring to travel to other major towns, including Perth, for treatment. Services available include:

 
Community Health Services
  • Immunisation clinics
  • Health promotion
  • Child health
  • School health
  • Women’s and sexual health

Kimberley Mental Health and Drug Service

  • Child and adolescent mental health team
  • Kimberley community drug service team

Allied Health Services

  • Physiotherapy
  • Occupational therapy
  • Speech therapy
  • Dietetics

Boab Health Services

  • Dietetics
  • Podiatry
  • Mental Health Counselling

 

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Kununurra Neighbourhood House – Family Support Service

Kununurra Neighbourhood House is a not-for-profit family support service committed to providing emotional and practical support within our community by preventing isolation through the development of support groups, networks, education and information available to individuals and families.

As is the case for many north west towns, the population of Kununurra is transient making KNH’s role in the community an important one, reducing isolation by assisting individuals and families as they adjust to the Kimberley lifestyle without the normal support networks.

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Karratha Early Learning Child Care Centre

Karratha Early Learning Child Care Centre provides childcare to:

  • Nursery (0 – 2 Years)
  • Toddlers (2 – 3 Years)
  • Pre-Kindy (3-5 Years)
  • After School Care (5 – 12 Years)
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Goomalling Community Resource Centre

Goomalling CRC offers a wide range of services including:

  • Library Access
  • Internet Access
  • Computer Access
  • Medicare And Centrelink Access
  • Conference rooms
  • Telecentre
  • Local newspaper
  • Better Beginnings Story Time every Friday
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