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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)

1800RESPECT

Confidential information, counselling and support service

1800 737 732 (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

HomeSeeker SA

Can help find an affordable home

Website: HomeSeeker SA

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


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