A Place to Call Home: Episode 7 - Aboriginal Women Leaving Custody Project

Law for Community Workers

This is Part 7 in our podcast series exploring homelessness in Australia and the legal issues people experience when they are homeless or at risk of homelessness. During this series we will be speaking to people from different services providing support and legal advice to those experiencing homelessness and to people with lived experience of homelessness.

We acknowledge the traditional owners of the lands on which this episode was made and pay our respects to Elders past and present.

In this 7th episode, Bridget from the Community Legal Education Branch speaks with Denise and Lowanna who work in Legal Aid NSW’s Aboriginal Women Leaving Custody project. Denise and Lowanna work with women in correctional centres who are at risk of homelessness when they are in custody or preparing to leave custody.

There is useful information in this episode about how community workers can support people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.

Use the links below to find out more information about what we talked about in this episode.

The Legal Aid NSW contact number in prison is #2 on the prisoner CADL phone.

Department of Communities and Justice housing policies:

https://www.facs.nsw.gov.au/housing/help/eligibility/social-housing

https://www.facs.nsw.gov.au/housing/help

https://www.facs.nsw.gov.au/housing/help/applying-assistance/applying

https://www.facs.nsw.gov.au/housing/policies/social-housing-eligibility-allocations-policy-supplement/chapters/urgent-housing-needs

https://www.facs.nsw.gov.au/housing/policies/social-housing-eligibility-allocations-policy-supplement/chapters/housing-evidence

https://www.facs.nsw.gov.au/housing/community-housing-policies/transitional-plus

https://www.facs.nsw.gov.au/housing/aboriginal-housing/overview

https://www.facs.nsw.gov.au/housing/help/ways/are-you-homeless/together-home

https://www.facs.nsw.gov.au/housing/help/applying-assistance/waiting-times

https://www.facs.nsw.gov.au/housing/help/ways/domestic-family-violence

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Music: Warm Romance Sunset by Bobby Cole

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