Four local charities received $80,000 raised through Northern Rivers Community Foundation Women’s Giving Circle (WGC) on 3 September at the Brunswick Picture House.
They include the Strong Beginnings program, delivered by Evie Wood, the CEO of Coolamon Community. They will use the grant to ensure essential maternal and infant items reach 48 First Nations mothers across the Northern Rivers and further afield. The items will be distributed through Aboriginal Health Service partners.
A pilot program of Workplace Wellbeing Dialogue Circles delivered by Janine Dunleavy, Project Worker at Northern Rivers Community Legal Centre, will give frontline domestic and family violence workers a structured way to process the trauma they absorb on the job.
The SHIFT charity, led by co-founder Anne Goslett, will embed a qualified social worker across its residential, outreach and employment programs, including at the SHIFT linen service.
Agape Outreach, led by Founder and Psychologist Theresa Mitchell, will establish a women-only supported accommodation in Banora Point, furnishing three family rooms within a seven-bedroom group home for women and children escaping homelessness and domestic violence.
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