A satelite office has been opened in Wallan to increase service accessibility for Mitchell Shire residents. Mitchell Shire residents experience high legal needs and low availability of services. This satelite office, opened in September 2024, has seen access to Northern CLC services to Mitchell Shire residents doubling. 

Northern CLC’s pilot School Lawyer Program embeds specialist youth lawyers in local secondary schools. These lawyers work directly with students, delivering hands-on support and teaching them the skills they need to proactively respond to any emerging legal issues they might be facing – including crime, fines and debts, victims’ compensation and family violence.

Being an Australian Citizen affords young people with access to financial supports for tertiary education (HECS-HELP/Youth Allowance) that are not immediately available to them as permanent residents. This small scoping and legal education project responds to the legal need identified by our youth organisation partners, that young people in the north-west are missing out on education opportunities because they haven’t applied for Australian citizenship, despite being eligible.

The Working Women’s Centre Victoria is a non-government consortium made up of four community legal centres: South-East Monash Legal Service, Women’s Legal Service Victoria, WEstjustice, and Northern Community Legal Centre. Our services are available to all women (including cis and trans women) and non-binary people (including people who are gender diverse, gender fluid, masculine or feminine) working anywhere in Victoria, including regional and remote areas.

The Safe Landing Project assists migrant women on temporary visas – who experience disproportionate frequency and severity of family violence – to find safety and establish lives free of violence. Working collaboratively with family violence services, police and courts, the Safe Landing Project provides wrap-around, culturally sensitive legal services to streamline safety pathways.

This project provides on-site legal support to women at serious risk of homelessness across three family violence crisis accommodation sites. Our lawyers assist victims-survivors with complex casework to assert their legal rights to safety and financial/legal entitlements. Empowering victims-survivors in this way promotes economic equity, leading to housing stability in the future for families as they recover from their experience.

Working collaboratively with Maternal Child Health Services, this project intervenes early to prevent vulnerable women and children from experiencing family violence and separation. It uses an integrated legal-health model to give women clear pathways to safety.