Moorditj Yorga (Strong Women) domestic violence support
Moorditj Yorga (Strong Women) – Together Walking is a support program for First Nations women who have experienced or are experiencing family and domestic violence.
Free
Confidential
Available to people living in the Cities of Fremantle, Cockburn and Melville
Who is Moorditj Yorga (Strong Women) – Together Walking for?
Moorditj Yorga (Strong Women) – Together Walking is a service available to First Nations women living in the Cities of Fremantle, Cockburn and Melville areas.
If you need support but don’t live in these areas, please visit the Women’s Health and Family Services or the Relationships Australia website for more resources.
If you are looking for the Escaping Violence Payment page, click here.
How Moorditj Yorga (Strong Women) – Together Walking supports you.
Our team will walk alongside you. We can support you with:
- A safety plan for you and your children
- 1:1 counselling
- Connection with and access to other services
- Assistance to access services for your children
- Assistance with Court attendances
- Group yarning sessions with new topics and activities each week.
We’ve developed a series of interactive workshops for Term 1, and we hope you can join us. The 2024 Term 1 workshops will run from January 31 to March 27.
Workshop details
Venue: Uniting WA, 10-12 Market Street, Fremantle
Days: Wednesdays
Time: 11am – 2pm
Registration: Contact Fleur Mahota on 0482 161 502 or at fleur.mahota@unitingwa.org.au
Date | Workshop | Description | Facilitator/s |
Jan 31 | New Year – New Focus | Come and have a yarn while creating vision boards to set goals and identify what you want to work towards in 2024. | Uniting WA |
Feb 7 | Money Matters | One of the financial counsellors from Uniting will be coming to talk about money and share tips and tricks. | Uniting WA |
Feb 14 | Self-Awareness | Guest speakers from the Consumers of Mental Health WA’s Life Launchpad program will be running an interactive workshop to increase self-awareness | Consumers of Mental Health WA |
Feb 22 | Yarning About Language | Today is International Mother Language Day and we will be yarning about languages with Noongar Elder Marie Taylor. | Uniting WA with guest speaker, Marie Taylor |
Feb 28 | Speaking Up for Yourself | Life Launchpad will be running an interactive workshop to develop the skill of speaking up for yourself. | Consumers of Mental Health WA |
March 6 | Being Power Smart | An energy coach from the Energy Ahead program will be talking about how you can reduce energy use and save money on bills. | Financial Wellbeing Collective |
March 13 | Art Creations | First Nations artist, Yabini Kickett, will be running a workshop to guide you in creating your own artwork at the Fremantle Arts Centre. | Fremantle Arts Centre with guest artist, Yabini Kickett |
March 20 | It Takes a Village | Parenting specialists from Meerilinga will be coming in to talk about the challenges of parenting and will share some tools for supporting each other through tough times. | Meerilinga |
March 27 | Art and Craft | First Nations artist, Sharyn Egan, will be running an art and crafts session at Uniting for the last group of term. | Uniting WA with guest artist, Sharyn Egan |
Our team can also connect you with services to facilitate Violence Restraining Orders, conflict resolution and applications for accommodation and housing.
You can refer yourself or speak to us about referring someone you know.
If you’d like to learn more about this service, please get in contact with our team.
What does family and domestic violence look like?
Family and domestic violence is any behaviour that is violent, threatening, controlling or intended to make you and your family feel scared and unsafe.
It would include things like your partner or someone in your family:
- Hitting you
- Calling you names
- Keeping or demanding your money
- Stopping you from talking to your friends and family
- Making you do things you don’t want to do
- Threatening you, your family, friends or pets.