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
1:1 Counselling
Case management
Group yarning sessions
If you are looking for the Escaping Violence Payment page, click here.
Who is Moorditj Yorga (Strong Women) – Together Walking for?
Moorditj Yorga (Strong Women) – Together Walking is a service available to First Nations women, over 18, 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.
Hear from someone who attends the group
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
- Case management
- Connection with and access to other services
- Assistance to access services for your children
- Assistance with Court attendance
- Group yarning sessions with new topics and activities each week.
We’ve developed a series of interactive workshops for Term 4, and we hope you can join us. The 2024 Term 4 workshops will run from 9 October to 11 December.
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 |
| 9 October | Mental Health | October 10th is World Mental Health Day so today’s workshop will be yarning about mental health and wellness, for ourselves, our families and our community. | Uniting WA |
| 16 October | Parenting | Parenting specialists from Meerilinga will present a workshop on how to help your child listen and cooperate as well as some information about separation anxiety. | Women on the Tools |
| 23 October | Tools Workshop | We will be working with JC for another workshop to learn new “handy person” skills and try out new tools. | Women on the Tools |
| 30 October | Parenting | Parenting specialists from Meerilinga will present a workshop on supporting positive connections between siblings. | Meerilinga |
| 6 November | Community Canvas | We will have local First Nation’s artist Sharon Calgaret facilitating a workshop to help us create a ‘Moorditj Yorga’ group painting on canvas. | Sharon Calgaret |
| 13 November | Tree of Life Art and Community Canvas |
Uniting will run a workshop to tell our stories by creating individual Tree of Life artworks on canvas and we will continue working on our community canvas. | Uniting WA and Sharon Calgaret |
| 20 November | Tree of Life Art and Community Canvas |
We will continue working on our Tree of Life artworks as well as our community canvas. | Uniting WA and Sharon Calgaret |
| 27 November | 16 Days in WA | A yarning workshop about the 16 days in WA march, about ways that violence could be reduced in our communities and sharing safe spaces and ways we can move past and heal from experiences of violence. | Uniting WA |
| 4 December | Car Budgeting | Our Uniting WA financial counselling team will present an information session on car related costs, insurance options and more! | Uniting WA Financial counsellors |
| 11 December | Christmas Party | Our annual Christmas Party will have food, games and yarning to celebrate another year of support, sharing and connections. | Uniting WA |
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.
