Image: Mens Outreach Service Aboriginal Corporation staff pictured during their NAIDOC event in 2023.
Family Outreach Service Broome, operating as part of Mens Outreach Service Aboriginal Corporation, has partnered with Anglicare WA, and has been awarded the service contract to run the Broome Hub.
The Hub, which is the result of a $16.3 million state government commitment, will build on the success of One Stop Family and Domestic Violence Hubs at Mirrabooka (Naala Djookan) and Kalgoorlie (Mara Pirni Healing Place).
The Armadale Hub has also commenced providing services to the community and the Government has committed a further $14.2 million funding for a new Hub in the Perth metropolitan area to be located at the new RUAH Centre for Women and Children.
Family Outreach Service Broome and Anglicare WA will provide interim Hub services while works progress to develop a purpose-built property that will deliver a full Hub service. Interim services will be available later this year.
The Broome Hub will provide a range of specialist supports for people experiencing family and domestic violence.
This includes advocacy, counselling, legal assistance and support for children, from a single location.
It will also provide family and domestic violence outreach services in Derby and Bidyadanga.
Mens Outreach Service Aboriginal Corporation, delivering through its Family Outreach Service, is an Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation and has supported the West Kimberley community for 23 years.
The service alliance has a wealth of experience and expertise in the provision of services that build safety by supporting victim-survivors and families to recover from their experiences of family and domestic violence, as well as supporting perpetrators to address their use of family and domestic violence.
Family Outreach Service Broome Chief Executive Officer Peter Mitchell said they were pleased to be leading this vital community initiative.
“Our leadership of the Family and Domestic Violence Hub will build on the valuable programs that Family Outreach Service currently deliver to support women and children experiencing family and domestic violence through our Strong Women, Strong Families Program and Youth Services Programs,” Mr Mitchell said.
“It will strengthen our whole of family approach to family and domestic violence though our family support programs and Change Em Ways, our Indigenous Men’s Behavioural Change FDV program.
“We will also draw on the experience of Anglicare WA which has also been delivering family and domestic violence services for many years in the Kimberley.”
Find more information about the Family and Domestic Violence One Stop Hubs.
