Newcastle Western Suburbs Women and Family Homelessness Support Service

This service operating as NOVA For Women and Children, supports women and women with children who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, including those affected by domestic and family violence and who have complex needs.

It provides client-centred homelessness support, including prevention and early intervention, rapid rehousing, crisis and transitional accommodation, case management, and intensive responses for women and families with complex needs.

Its supports women to remain safely in their existing housing, or where appropriate use a range of approaches to assist clients to secure and sustain safe and stable housing. It will ensure clients who become homeless are supported to be rapidly and safely rehoused, and once accommodation has been secured, clients will receive post-crisis support to assist them to maintain the accommodation.

The service has a strong focus on responses for Aboriginal women and families and is accessible to women and families from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. It also provides Domestic Violence Response Enhancement (DVRE) to strength their after-hours responses to women in crisis.