OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS 

 

Our community partners are invaluable to the work we do at Northern Community Legal Centre. Working together, community organisations and legal centres like Northern CLC can create streamlined referrals that ensure people get timely access to the right kind of help. By providing swift and accessible legal assistance, we can stop common social problems from escalating into complicated legal matters. 

 

While everyday social problems often have a simple legal resolution, this isn’t always obvious.  That’s why we also provide training for our partner organisations to help them identify clients who might benefit from early legal assistance.  

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EXAMPLES OF OUR PARTNERSHIPS 

 

North-West Enhanced Pathways Project  

 

We rely on many valuable community partnerships at NCLC. For our North-West Enhanced Pathways Project, we’ve joined with Maternal Child Health Services (MCHS) to establish an integrated legal-health support model for vulnerable women and children.  

 

This partnership was established after MCHS consistently identified a need amongst their clients for legal support regarding child protection, family violence and family law. Together, we provide early intervention to prevent women and children from experiencing family violence and separation. 

 

Project funding enables NCLC to employ a senior Family Violence Lawyer to provide legal advocacy, capacity-building activities, and case management in collaboration with MCHS. 

 

Safe Steps to Legal Rights Project 

 

Safe Steps to Legal Rights is a small outreach pilot program run in collaboration with Safe Steps and the Salvation Army, working within their crisis accommodation sites for high-risk victims/survivors of family violence.  

 

This program is designed to provide on-site wraparound support to women and children immediately after they escape from family violence – a time of extreme housing instability. We deliver onsite, coordinated, sustained, and intensive legal casework as they navigate crisis accommodation, refuges, short-term housing, and private rentals. This work empowers victims/survivors to access justice as they separate from violent relationships, and it lays the foundation for inter-generational financial and housing security.  

 

We are currently seeking funding to establish this as an expanded and ongoing project. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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