Central Coast Homelessness Services: Women’s Program
Coast Shelter provides short term crisis accommodation, outreach support and transitional housing services to women aged 25 years and over, with or without children, and who are experiencing, or who are at risk of homelessness.
Services are provided within our 3 women’s refuge properties and our 5 women’s transitional properties located across the Central Coast region of NSW.
- Supporting women, children and young people in our community who are homeless or at risk of homelessness through the development of case plans, safety plans and an assertive, brief intervention case co-ordination service.
- Providing direct and tailored services and support to women, children and young people who have experienced or are experiencing domestic and family violence that is trauma informed, family centred and culturally safe.
- Supporting women, children and young people to access community and specialist services through appropriate referrals and warm handovers.
- Providing practical support to women and children in crisis.
When a woman and her children need somewhere safe to go, they come here.
How we work
Coast Shelter Women’s Program team members:
- Assist families, including children, on the recovery journey
- Are trauma-informed and acknowledge that mental wellbeing is determined by social and psychological factors in addition to biological and medical ones.
- Will treat the client as a “whole person”
- Will pay careful attention to the team member/client alliance
*Names changed for privacy
The Domestic Violence Outreach Program
The Domestic Violence Rapid Enhancement outreach program (DVRE) is a separate service that works very closely with Coast Shelt’er Women’s Accommodation program.