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We offer:
Housing
We build and operate safe, secure social and affordable housing for women and other eligible applicants.
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Support programs
Our local support programs can help you stabilise your current situation, access and maintain housing, and make progress on your goals for your future. Find a program
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Leadership pathways
Pathways to build your skills, knowledge and confidence, find opportunities to make a difference and connect with a like-minded community. Find pathways
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Our impact
6,000+
people supported each year
130,000+
nights of safe, stable and affordable accommodation provided each year
64,000+
hours of support provided each year
Where we are
We deliver housing, services and support programs in 17 communities.
Our advocacy and leadership pathways have a national footprint.
- Northern Territory: Darwin and Palmerston
- New South Wales: Bowral, Lismore, Sydney, Nowra, Wollongong
- Queensland: Toowoomba, Townsville
- South Australia: Adelaide
- Victoria: Ballarat, Bendigo, Geelong, Melbourne Mooroopna, Wodonga
- Western Australia: Perth
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"It’s been quite a hard and long journey … we’ve couch surfed, shared bedrooms and at one stage we even slept in a tent. It took a lot of tears, but we got there – I cried when I got the call … it was a miracle."
YWCA tenant - QLD, Misty in response to her new home
News and media
First Graduates from YWCA Australia’s Amplifying Voices Program To Begin their Advocacy Work
The Amplifying Voices Program was co-designed by six women with lived experience and included input from seven professional advocates and […]
Meet our 2024-25 Board Trainees
As we come to the end of the financial year, we say goodbye to our 2023-24 Board Trainees, Brea Dorsett […]
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YWCA Australia Wraps Up Life Changing Encore Program
In line with our revised strategy outlined in YeS 2026, YWCA has made the difficult decision to no longer offer […]