Blacktown/Hills Homelessness Service for Single Women

Blacktown/Hills Homelessness Service for Single Women (trading as DV West Blacktown Hills Accommodation Support Services) provides support to single women experiencing domestic and family violence. It also supports other women, with a focus on those exiting institutions

It also provides prevention and early intervention, rapid re-housing, crisis and transitional accommodation, and intensive responses for clients with complex needs. It provides case management arrangements to support client with immediate or long-term needs. This includes facilitating access to specialist support services, which could include mental health services, family support financial health or counselling, legal advice, education and employment opportunities, community participation and family restoration.

The service covers the Blacktown and The Hills local government areas (LGAs). It has a strong focus on responses for Aboriginal women and is accessible to women from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

This service provides the women’s refuge:

• DV West Blacktown/Hills – single women