Junction Australia provides specialist support to people experiencing domestic and family violence, focusing on safety, housing, and connection to essential services.
Junction Australia delivers domestic and family violence services across the Fleurieu Peninsula and Kangaroo Island, offering practical, person-centred support to help individuals and families stay safe or leave unsafe situations. Their approach includes safety planning, housing assistance, and coordinated referrals to legal, counselling, and community services to support long-term stability and recovery.
Services provided:
- Safety planning and support to stay safe or leave a violent situation
- Assistance engaging with police and legal services
- Help exploring financial assistance options
- Support to remain safely in the home where possible
- Assistance with emergency and long-term housing options
- Referrals to counselling, legal, and other specialist domestic violence services
- Culturally appropriate support for First Nations and culturally diverse communities
- Connections to community services and ongoing support networks
Everyone has the right to feel safe and live in an environment free from violence. Renting laws provide options to help victims escape domestic violence.
If you are a tenant experiencing domestic abuse, you may be able to end your tenancy by serving a notice of termination on your landlord and providing supporting evidence without the need to apply to SACAT.
Supports include:
- stay at the rented home and have the perpetrator leave; or
- leave the rented premises and be removed from the rental agreement.
The Leaving Violence Program supports victim-survivors to make choices about leaving violent intimate partner relationships.
Services Include:
- Financial Support
- Risk and Needs assessments
- Safety Planning
- Referral Services
The Limestone Coast Domestic Violence Service provides tailored support, safety planning and pathways to secure housing for women and children escaping or affected by domestic violence.
The Limestone Coast Domestic Violence Service is a specialised program delivered by Centacare Catholic Community Services that offers high-quality, client-focused domestic violence support in the South-East of South Australia. It helps women and children increase safety, access supported accommodation, and connects them with counselling, case management and other essential resources so they can move towards long-term safety and stability.
Services Include:
- Supported accommodation options for women and children experiencing domestic violence or at risk of homelessness.
- Specialist domestic violence counselling tailored to individual needs.
- Individualised case management to help clients navigate safety planning, services and referrals.
- Assistance linking clients with additional supports such as legal, financial or community resources (via referrals).
The Men's Referral Service is a national counselling, information and referral service supporting men who use violent or abusive behaviours to change their behaviour and keep families and communities safer.
The Men’s Referral Service offers confidential telephone and online support across Australia for men seeking to take responsibility for their use of violence and abuse. It provides respectful listening, information and links to local support services such as behaviour change programs, short-term counselling and other resources, and also assists family members, friends and professionals wanting to support men in changing their behaviour.
Services Include:
- National telephone and web-based counselling for men concerned about their violent or abusive behaviour.
- Information and referral to appropriate local services, including behaviour change programs and other supports.
- Support for family, friends or colleagues seeking advice on how to support men to change.
- Assistance for professionals seeking secondary consultation on working with men who use violence or family members affected by it.
- Linkage to short-term intervention options, including the Brief Intervention Service for additional counselling and support where appropriate.
MensLine Australia is a free telephone and online counselling service offering support for Australian men anywhere, anytime.
MensLine Australia offers free professional 24/7 telephone counselling support for men with concerns about family violence.
Supports include:
- 24/7 phone supports.
- Online and video chat supports.
The Migrant Women's Support Program provides culturally appropriate support for women from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds experiencing domestic and family violence.
This service supports migrant and culturally diverse women experiencing domestic and family violence. It offers culturally sensitive assistance, safety planning, information, advocacy, and referrals, with access to bilingual workers and interpreters.
Supports provided:
- Safety planning and risk assessment
- Information and support around domestic and family violence
- Advocacy with services and agencies
- Referrals to appropriate supports
- Access to bilingual staff and interpreters
Provides support for women and children experiencing or escaping domestic and family violence in the Murray Mallee and Adelaide Hills regions.
This service offers crisis and ongoing support to women and children affected by domestic and family violence. Assistance includes safety planning, case management, advocacy, counselling, and referrals to help improve safety and wellbeing.
Supports provided:
- Crisis support
- Risk assessment and safety planning
- Case management and advocacy
- Short-term counselling
- Referrals to other support services
- Assistance with accommodation and housing options
- Outreach support and group programs
Specialised Family Violence Service provides counselling and support for couples and families who are or have experienced family and domestic violence.
Supports available to families, individuals and children.
Supports include:
- Face to face counselling
- Telephone counselling
- Telehealth counselling
- Group education
- Behavioural change programs
- Referrals to additional support services