Why women only services? 🤔♀️ … because, the majority of women in prison have experienced family and domestic violence 😔 ⚖️ Central Australian Women’s Legal Service ⚖️ Top End Women’s Legal Service ⚖️ Katherine Women’s Information & Legal Service
⚠️ Youpla (formerly trading as Aboriginal Community Benefit Fund or ACBF) funeral insurers have gone into liquidation ⚠️ This is going to have a HUGE financial impact on thousands of First Nations People – with CAWLS already seeing clients who have been affected 😥 People who thought that they were doing the right thing by…
📃 The Australian Bureau of Statistics released the ‘Prisoners in Australia Report’ last year, showing that within 12 months, the number of female prisoners had increased by 37% 📈😧 🔎➡️ https://ntindependent.com.au/news-brief-prisoner-rates-in-the-nt-increased ⚖️ Central Australian Women’s Legal Service ⚖️ Top End Women’s Legal Service ⚖️ Katherine Women’s Information & Legal Service
Why women only services? 🤔 ♀️ … because, in the Northern Territory, there has been a 37% increase in female prisoners over the last 12 month 🚨 ⚖️ Central Australian Women’s Legal Service ⚖️ Top End Women’s Legal Service ⚖️ Katherine Women’s Legal Service
🎥 Last week, our CAWLS team were delighted to be invited as guests by the NT Working Women’s Centre, to their IWD celebratory movie screening of ‘Women of Steel‘. 🎞️ ‘Women of Steel‘ is a documentary detailing the strength, resilience and power of a group of women, who fought for women’s equal access to employment…
In 2019, an Australian-first study revealed that victims of domestic and family violence are 10 times more likely than others to experience myriad legal problems such as family, civil & criminal law disputes ⚖️ 🗣️ “Combatting domestic & family violence requires a complex and coordinated response across ALL jurisdictions and human service providers” explains President…
😲 It is now just under two weeks until our first training of ‘Identifying & Responding to Family Violence’ for 2022 … don’t miss out on your tickets to this crucial and worthwhile training for community and sector staff 📖💪 CAWLS are collaborating with other local service providers to deliver an integrated training where participants…
Why women only services? 😔♀️ … because, victim survivors of domestic violence are ten times more likely to experience other legal problems 😔⚖️ ⚖️ Central Australian Women’s Legal Service ⚖️ Top End Women’s Legal Service ⚖️ Katherine Women’s Information & Legal Service
📣 Attention Tennant Creek Service Providers 👋 CAWLS is delivering ‘Identifying and Responding to Family Violence’ Training on Tuesday 29 March in Tennant Creek. 🗣️ This training aims to strengthen understandings of family violence and its legal responses, including mandatory reporting obligations. Local Tennant Creek services such as the Tangentyere Women’s Family Safety Group, Tennant…
Experiencing domestic & family violence can have significant legal impacts… 🧑⚖️ 📃 In 2019, the ‘Law and Justice Foundation’ conducted the first quantitate assessment on legal and related problems coinciding with DFV. 📑 Key findings included, that those who had experienced DFV, were 10 times more likely than others, to experience other legal problems, particularly…
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