Category Archives: News & Events

Be kind during the holiday season

Remember … the holidays can be a tough time for some. It’s not all Santa’s, candy canes and happy memories for everyone. Be kind to everyone you meet during the holiday season 🙏

34 South Terrace, Affordable Housing

🏘️ CAWLS was pleased to visit 34 South Terrace – Transitional Housing Program, earlier this week. This program is a culturally respectful, transitional housing and support program designed to prepare participants for success in the management of longer-term accommodation options. Our experience tells us that transitional housing is vital for women and children at risk…

Join the CAWLS Team in 2021

🔎 The Central Australian Women’s Legal Service is recruiting for the following positions ⬇️ 🟣 Financial Counsellor 🟣 Senior Lawyer 🟣 Junior Lawyer 🟣 Social Worker (Tennant Creek) To learn more & view the position descriptions in full, please visit ➡️ www.cawls.org.au/employment-opportunities ☎️ 08 8952 4055 📧 recruitment@cawls.org.au

NT Volunteer of the Year Awards, Angelique Glasson

The CAWLS team would like to acknowledge and congratulate CAWLS Board Member, Angelique Glasson, for her worthy nomination in last month’s ‘NT Volunteer of the Year Awards’ 👏 Angelique has lived in Alice Springs for 23 years. By day, Angelique works in finance… but in her spare time, is a passionate, committed and incredible asset…

2020-2021 Annual Report

CAWLS is proud to share our 2019-2020 Annual Report, which explores the efforts, challenges and hard work our team faced over the past 12 months.   🧐 We encourage everyone to take the time to read through the report to understand more about the work of CAWLS in our community.   👏 Thank you to…

CAWLS Holiday Closure Dates 2020-2021

CAWLS HOLIDAY CLOSURE DATES 🎄🕛   📍 Alice Springs Office 📅 Closed from midday Thursday 24 December 2020 👋 Reopening on Monday 4 January 2021   📍 Tennant Creek Office 📅 Closed from 5pm Wednesday 16 December 2020 👋 Reopening on Tuesday 12 January 2021 ℹ️ If you need assistance during the above closed periods, the CAWLS Alice…

Share the Dignity at Christmas Time

Share the Dignity have given us the BEST Christmas Gift ever… 75 incredibly generous bags PACKED with goodies for women in need 🙏🎄 Share the Dignity continually support CAWLS with supplies for women in Central Australia … from handbags with every day items to sanitary items. You will never know the impact it makes when…

Sharing some Christmas Happiness with WoSSCA

The CAWLS team chose to share some Christmas joy – with a basket of happiness – for the women and children at the Women’s Shelter 🎁🎄 The holidays can be hard enough at the best of times… so if we could put a smile on at least one face, we feel proud to have helped…

NT Law Society CEO visits CAWLS

👋 The CAWLS team were delighted to welcome CEO of the NT Law Society, Kelvin Strange, for a tour of our office before the Law Society’s end of year celebration in Alice Springs. Lawyers working in Central Australia and the Barkly face unique challenges in their demanding practice 🤔 An active and interested membership organisation…

16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence | Day 16

📅 Today brings UN Women’s ‘16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence’ to a close… For the past 16 Days (of Activism), UN Women handed over the mic to survivors, activists and UN partners on the ground, to tell the story of what happened after COVID-19 hit. 📣 The voices of activists and survivors were…