Resources
Find information for local support services in the Southern Adelaide community.
Local Support Services
Domestic Violence Hotlines
In an emergency, please phone 000
If you require urgent or after-hours assistance, please contact:
SA Domestic Violence Crisis Line
1800 800 098 (24-hour line)
Legal Support
Community legal services who can provide representation and referrals:
Women’s Legal Service
Free and confidential legal information telephone service
Website: Legal Centre | Women’s Legal Service South Australia
Phone: 08 8231 8929 Free Call: 1800 816 349
Legal Services Commission of SA
Legal Services seeks to give all South Australians equal access to justice through the legal system, providing free legal information, legal advice and legal education to all.
Website: LSC SA
Free Legal Helpline: 1300 366 424 (Weekdays between 9am and 4.30pm)
Community Justice Services
Providing free legal advice, referrals and ongoing legal representation to South Australians.
Website: Community Justice SA
Phone: 08 8384 5222 or 1800 850 650
Financial Support
Financial and counselling supports include:
The Zahra Foundation
Offer a free, specialist Financial Counselling service for women impacted by domestic abuse related debt and financial hardship.
Website Financial Counselling | The Zahra Foundation
Phone: 08 8352 1889
Anglicare SA
Financial counsellors provide financial education and support as they work towards a stable financial future
Website: Anglicare SA
Phone: 1800 759 707
Uniting Communities
Our experienced team of budget workers and financial counsellors offer free, independent, and confidential service to help ease financial stress.
Website: Uniting Communities
Phone: 1800 615 677 (Monday to Friday 9am-5pm)
Salvation Army
Personalised advice on how to get through money problems and avoid trouble in the future.
Website: Salvation Army
Phone: 1800 722 363
Escaping Violence Payment (EVP)
The EVP offers financial assistance and confidential support to help you move on from intimate partner violence.
To find more information or apply online please refer to the website here
Housing Support
If you need crisis accommodation, please call the 24/7 Domestic Violence Crisis Line on 1800 800 098
For additional emergency accommodation supports, contact Homeless Connect SA on 1800 003 308. Or contact the Domestic Violence and Aboriginal Family Violence Gateway on 1300 782 200 or 1800 800 098. These numbers are free to call from a landline and available 24 hours a day, seven days a week
Other housing supports include:
SA Housing Authority
Providing tenancies for those who cannot access and sustain other housing options.
Website: SA Housing Authority
Phone: 131 299
Rent Right SA
Free, independent service, helping people maintain their tenancies in private rental, community housing or public housing
Website: SYC | RentRight SA
Phone: 1800 060 462
Counselling Services
The Yellow Gate
Women can access one-on-one counselling services with trauma informed Family, Domestic and Sexual violence counsellors.
Website: The Yellow Gate
Phone: 1300 564 164 Email: [email protected] (Monday to Friday 9.30am -4.30pm)
Cedar Health Service
Inclusive domestic and family violence healthcare provides holistic care and support to people 16 years and over who have been subjected to abusive and unsafe behaviour from a partner or ex-partner.
Website: Women’s and Children’s Health Network • Cedar Health Service (wchn.sa.gov.au)
Phone: (08) 8444 0700
Yarrow Place Rape and Sexual Assault Service
Yarrow Place provides free and confidential service for people aged 16 years and over at the time of the sexual assault.
Phone: 1800 817 421 (Toll-free in SA)
Email: [email protected]
Relationships Australia
Specialised Family Violence Service
Counselling supports are available to families, individuals and children. The service is also inclusive of people in same sex relationships.
Website: RASA | Family Violence Services
Phone: 08 8377 5400
Uniting Communities
Individual or group counselling for adults, couples, children and young people
Website: Uniting Communities | Counselling
Phone: (08) 8202 5190 (Monday to Friday 9am-5pm)
Centacare
Confidential counselling support to individuals, couples, families and children.
Website: Centacare | Counselling
Phone: 08 8215 6700 (Monday, Tuesday & Friday 9am-5pm, Wednesday & Thursday 9am-9pm)
Anglicare SA
Counselling and programs couples, families and individuals with the aim of strengthening families and ensuring the wellbeing of children.
Website: https://anglicaresa.com.au/
Phone: (08) 8186 8900
Men’s Services
Men’s counselling services and group programs
Anglicare SA
Group programs for dads committed to seeking respectful ways to be the father and partner they want to be.
Website: https://anglicaresa.com.au/
Phone: (08) 8186 8900
Uniting Communities
Counselling can help you find ways to develop safe, positive and respectful relationships
Website: https://www.unitingcommunities.org/
Phone: (08) 8202 5190
Mensline Australia
A free telephone and online counselling service offering support for Australian men anywhere, anytime
Website: https://mensline.org.au/
Phone: 1300 78 99 78
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Services
KWY
Provide Aboriginal people, families, and communities with cultural services and supports that build positive and long-term change.
Website: KWY
Phone: 08 8377 7822
Nunkuwarrin Yunti
Counselling for any member of an Aboriginal family, including Elders, members of the Stolen Generations, families, adults, couples, young people, and children.
Website: Nunku | Counselling
Phone: 08 8392 3500
Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities (CALD)
Australian Migrant and Resource Centre
The Australian Migrant Resource Centre (AMRC) focuses on humanitarian and migrant settlement, community capacity building, and empowering young people, women, and migrants through training and employment programs.
Website: AMRC
Phone: (08) 8217 9500
Migrant Womens Support Program
This program is specifically designed for migrant and refugee women and children from non-English speaking backgrounds who are experiencing or escaping domestic or family violence
Website: WSSSA | CALD Clients
Phone: (08) 8152 9260
Children and young people
Kids Helpline
Provides free and confidential telephone and online counselling services to young people aged 5 to 25 years old for any reason 24/7.
Phone: 1800 551 800
Website: kidshelpline.com.au
Metro Youth Health
Free and confidential clinical health services to vulnerable young people aged 12–25, with a focus on young people under 18 years
Phone: 1800 716 881
Website: Women’s and Children’s Health Network • Metropolitan Youth Health (wchn.sa.gov.au)
Relationships Australia
Support children and young people of parents who are separating through counselling, education and group work in schools.
Phone: 1300 364 277
Website: iKiDs
LGBQTIA+
QLife
QLife services are free and include both telephone and chat support, delivered by trained LGBTI community members across the country – phone or web chat counselling service for LGBTI people, families and friends.
Phone: 1800 184 527
Website: qlife.org.au and chat online
Group programs
For a list of group programs running in the Southern metropolitan area of Adelaide, please phone the Yellow Gate on 1300 564 164
