CAWLS Closed on Friday 29 July 2022

📢 Our CAWLS offices in Alice Springs & Tennant Creek will be closed today, Friday 29 July for a staff training & development day. We will be reopening after the long weekend on Tuesday 2 August at 8:30am. ⚠️ If you require police assistance, contact Northern Territory Police via 131 444 or 000 in emergency…

MIFANT 30th Anniversary Celebrations

🎉 Last week, the Mental Illness Fellowship of Australia NT (MIFANT) celebrated their 30th anniversary (after a 2 year delay, due to the global pandemic). CAWLS staff, Tania & Christine, attended the celebrations and were pleased to be a part of the festivities of MIFANT, who support good mental health practices for all Territorians. 🗣️…

Sisters in Law | 20 July 2022

ℹ️ This week on ‘Sisters in Law’, we invited Jeanette Shepard, to join CAWLS hosts Sarah & Naya in the studio to discuss the Multicultural Community Services of Central Australia (MCSCA) organisation and multiculturalism across Alice Springs 🗺️ 🌏 MCSCA is a community based organisation, whose aims and objectives are to deliver quality confidential services…

CAWLS DFV Training & Visit to Ti Tree | July 2022

📍 This week, CAWLS staff Machiko, Jazz & student intern Naya, visited Ti Tree – a remote indigenous community, 194 km north of Alice Springs 🚙💨 🗣️ Presenting a training session alongside the Women’s Safety Services of Central Australia outreach team, our staff discussed how community staff can 👇 ▶️ identify family violence ▶️ legal…

Sisters in Law | 13 July 2022

ℹ️ Today on ‘Sisters in Law’, CAWLS Migration Lawyer, Meaghan, joined hosts Jazz and Naya, in the studio to discuss immigration law and the ‘CAWLS Migration Hub’. 🌏⚖️ The CAWLS Migration Hub is a service available for ANY woman in the Northern Territory, experiencing disadvantage, to receive timely and confidential migration advice (with priority given…

Winter Donation Call Out

❄️ To say it has been cold lately, would be an understatement… now, think of those who have nothing to wrap around their shoulders, or children who don’t have a pair of warm socks to put on their feet… 😓 Heartbreakingly, this is the reality of many women and their children in our community… 💔…

NAIDOC March in Mparntwe

Today, our CAWLS Mparntwe (Alice Springs) Office started the morning as part of the NAIDOC Week March down Todd Street 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Despite the extremely cold temperatures this week, it was inspiring to see so many friendly faces and organisations turn up in support of NAIDOC week ✊ The March was led by North Australian Aboriginal…