Who is the Domestic & Family Violence Specialist Service
Service
The Port Macquarie Hastings Domestic & Family Violence Specialist Service (DFVSS) provides crisis accommodation and support services to women and their children or single women escaping domestic violence or in crisis.
DFVSS provides many services through its four main service delivery streams;
- Galbaan House - Crisis Accommodation
- Liberty Cottage - Outreach Centre
- Specialist Housing Support Project and Transitional Housing Program
- Community Partnerships Against Domestic & Family Violence Project
The organisation was formed in 1980 as the Hastings Women and Children’s Refuge Inc. and has since expanded to provide a broad range of support services to those in need.
Support services may include
- Specialist domestic and family violence support
- Emergency supported accommodation
- Transitional housing
- Homelessness/housing support through Specialist Housing Support Project co-located with Housing NSW
- Safety planning for women and children escaping domestic and family violence
- Case management/case coordination planning for women and children
- Brokerage
- Information and advocacy relating to domestic and family violence and/or homelessness
- Outreach support
- Domestic and family violence support co-located with Family & Community Services
- Education programs and support groups
- Registered Men's Behaviour Change Program