Dance Till You Drop - Ladies Night

MISSION:

Our mission is to help raise much needed funds for SAHSSI. This is an organisation that helps to protect women and children from domestic violence

1. They are a not-for-profit community organisation that provides accommodation and help to single women and women with children who are escaping domestic violence or other life crises.

2. The services provided are:

- Provide temporary, supported accommodation for women and children in times of crisis.

- Provide support to clients when there is no vacancy at the refuge.

- Create a safe, non-institutionalised environment for women and children that is conducive to their emotional and physical well-being.

- Inform and empower women and children to make active decisions about their lives and encour age them to seek alternatives and options using a participative case management approach.

- Create an environment where women, children and families can share skills, ideas and information and, with support from refuge workers, help each other to work through their crisis.

- Make its services available to all women who can self-manage and care for their children regardless of their age, sexuality, cultural or linguistic diversity or whether they have a disability or mental illness.

- Work in partnership with other appropriate support services to ensure that a woman experiencing a crisis situation who is not able to self-manage can get the support she needs to achieve her goals.

- Cater for the needs of all families through its own resources and those of other relevant agencies.

- Advocate on behalf of women and children, ensuring they have access to resources and can live their lives in a safe environment.

- Liaise with and coordinate the services of health, DoCS, legal, housing and community agencies.

- Raise awareness in government, other services and the community about domestic violence and the impact it has on women and children.

- Engage in structural advocacy to improve service and legal responses to women and children in a crisis situation and experiencing domestic violence.

WE NEED YOU:

It is imperative to help raise some much needed funds for SAHSSI. It will enable SAHSSI to purchase food, white goods, clothing, furniture, baby toiletries, medicinal needs etc.. For the women who move from the refuge to their new homes.

It is from within our hearts that we ask you to donate. This is our way of helping the women and children of NSW get a start to a new life!