Women & Children First provides services and support to women and families in the northern area of Sydney escaping domestic violence.

We manage three refuges; Bringa Women and Children’s Refuge in the Northern Beaches and Delvena Women and Children’s Refuge in the Lower North Shore and a temporary refuge in Manly which we call the Manly Safehouse. We provide crisis accommodation for women and children escaping domestic violence.

Our refuges are exclusively for mothers and their children.  

We also provide ongoing case management for women and children living in our transitional housing in the community.

Our services include:

• • Domestic Violence Services: including crisis accommodation and transitional housing
  • Northern Beaches Family Support Service

Other services we provide include:

• advice, information and referral
• ongoing case management
• counselling
• domestic violence support groups
• cooking groups
• parenting skills groups, including Circle of Security, learning to play with children, understanding children’s emotions