Our Services

YWAHS deliver a range of therapeutic, trauma-informed general and specialised services and programs

Wunman Njinde

‘Yoowinna Wurnalung’ means ‘Our Safe Place’ in Gunaikurnai, the language of the traditional people of this region.

Yoowinna Wurnalung Aboriginal Healing Service deliver a range of therapeutic, trauma informed general and specialised services and programs aimed at supporting and empowering Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, men, children, youth, Elders, couples and families to have a better understanding of family violence and be able to make decisions to keep them safe.

The services and programs we provide include:

  • Education and prevention programs
  • Intensive case management support
  • Counselling and clinical services
  • Therapeutic services
  • Sexual assault services and support
  • Men’s behaviour change programs
  • Programs to support men to reduce risky behaviours and support reconnection to family
  • Mental Health
  • Alcohol and drug advocacy and support
  • Culture and wellbeing activities
  • Men’s & Women’s activities
  • Elders, Youth & Children’s activities
  • Early intervention and support programs
  • Post-intervention services and supports
  • Parenting programs
  • Referral pathways
  • Advocacy
  • Partnership projects
  • Workshops, Forums & Information Days
  • The Time Out Service provides a range of services and activities to strengthen and support the healing, health and wellbeing of Aboriginal women, children, men, Elders and families.

16 Days of Activism Resources

16 days of activism commences next Monday 25th November and runs until 10th December.

The East Gippsland Partners in Violence Prevention (EGPVP) is promoting gender equality and respect during the 16 Days of Activism with the theme Hands up for Respect encouraging early years services, schools, organisations and community to celebrate and reflect.

EGPVP is a partnership of organisations working together to prevent family violence with a focus on respectful relationships and gender equality.

Your leadership and commitment to promoting gender equality and respectful relationships is essential in our collective effort in East Gippsland to create a safer and more equitable world. Being part of the solution is everyone’s responsibility.

Attached is a resource pack and templates are designed for Early Years Services to support meaningful involvement in the 16 Days of Activism.

It can be used to reflect and generate conversations about what gender equality and respect looks like in your service, and to inspire change, building on wherever you are on your journey with respectful relationships within your service.

Resource packs for kinders, schools and workplaces

Hands up for Respect templates

Some of the projects we support

Young people’s voices (Indigenous Hip Hop workshops)

This project was funded by Dhelk Dja, the East Gippsland Family Violence Indigenous Regional Action Group

Respect video developed with support from Gippsland Lakes Complete Health, created at the Family Violence Prevention Gathering in October 2022

Get Ya Jab video created with support from Victorian Department of Health

Delivering Family Violence Services in East Gippsland and Wellington

Lakes Entrance

11 Heatherlea Grove
PO Box 590Lakes Entrance Victoria 3909
Phone: (03) 4110 2100
Email: healingservice@ywahs.org.au

Sale

16b Wade Court
Sale Victoria 3850

Nicholson

107 Hazeldene Crescent
Nicholson Victoria 3882

Bairnsdale

14 Giles St
Bairnsdale Victoria 3875