For information and advice, or counselling, support, advocacy, legal and medical services in relation to a sexual assault, contact the following services.
Aboriginal Family Violence Prevention and Legal Service Victoria see Djirra
Centres Against Sexual Assault (CASAs)
Tel (sexual assault crisis line): 1800 806 292 (24 hours a day, 7 days a week)
Web: www.casa.org.au
There are CASAs throughout metropolitan and regional Victoria; see the website for their addresses.
Court Network
555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne Vic 3000
Tel: 1800 681 614, 8306 6966
Email: admin@courtnetwork.com.au
Disability Justice Advocacy
Unit 2, 28A Albert Street, Preston Vic 3072
Tel: 9474 0077; 1800 808 126
Email: info@justadvocacy.com
Web: www.dja.org.au
Djirra (formerly Aboriginal Family Violence Prevention and Legal Service Victoria)
Email: info@djirra.org.au
Djirra – Melbourne office (head office)
292 Hoddle Street, Abbotsford Vic 3067
Tel: 9244 3333; 1800 105 303
Djirra’s Melbourne office services metropolitan Melbourne.
Djirra – Bairnsdale office
27 Pyke Street, Bairnsdale Vic 3875
Tel: 5153 2322
Djirra’s Bairnsdale office services all of Gippsland.
Djirra – Mildura office
151 Langtree Avenue, Mildura Vic 3500
Tel: 5021 3200
Djirra’s Mildura office services Mildura, Wentworth and Robinvale.
Djirra – Warrnambool office
177 Koroit Street, Warrnambool Vic 3280
Tel: 5562 5755
Djirra’s Warrnambool office services Geelong, Warrnambool, Framlingham, Heywood, Hamilton and Portland.
Elizabeth Morgan House Aboriginal Women’s Services
Tel: 9482 5744
Web: www.emhaws.org.au
InTouch Multicultural Centre Against Family Violence
Tel: 9413 6500; 1800 755 988
Email: admin@intouch.org.au
inTouch provides services and programs in Victoria for women from culturally diverse backgrounds who are affected by family violence.
Melbourne Sexual Health Centre
580 Swanston Street, Carlton Vic 3053
Tel: 9341 6200
Web: www.mshc.org.au
Office of Public Prosecutions Victoria (OPP)
565 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne Vic 3000
Tel: 9603 7666
Email: info@opp.vic.gov.au
Web: www.opp.vic.gov.au
Office of the Public Advocate (OPA)
Level 1, 204 Lygon Street, Carlton Vic 3053
Tel: 1300 309 337
Email: opa_advice@justice.vic.gov.au
Web: www.publicadvocate.vic.gov.au
Resourcing Health and Education in the Sex Industry (RhED)
10 Inkerman Street, St Kilda Vic 3182
Tel: 1800 458 752
Email: sexworker@sexworker.org.au
Safe Steps: Family Violence Response Centre
Tel: 9928 9600; 1800 015 188
Email: admin@safesteps.org.au
Web: www.safesteps.org.au
For security, the addresses of women’s refuges are not available. Safe Steps provides a state-wide, central referral service for women in need of crisis accommodation. It also provides advice, counselling and support groups.
Victims of Crime Assistance Tribunal (VOCAT)
VOCAT’s principal registry:
Level 1, 233 William Street, Melbourne Vic 3000
Tel: 9628 7855
Email: help@vocat.vic.gov.au
Web: www.vocat.vic.gov.au
VOCAT operates from every Magistrates’ Court in Victoria.
Victims of Crime Helpline
Tel: 1800 819 817; text: 0427 767 891 (8 am to 11 pm, 7 days a week)
Email: vsa@justice.vic.gov.au
Web: www.victimsofcrime.vic.gov.au
Victoria Police – Sexual Offences and Child Abuse Investigation Team (SOCIT)
Ararat: 5355 1500; Ballarat: 5336 6055; Bairnsdale: 5150 2677; Benalla: 5760 0200; Bendigo: 5444 6752; Box Hill: 8892 3292; Brimbank: 9313 3460; Colac: 5230 0044; Dandenong: 8769 2200; Diamond Creek: 9438 8320; Epping: 9409 8174; Fawkner: 9355 6100; Footscray: 8398 9860; Frankston: 8770 1000; Geelong: 5223 7200; Horsham: 5382 9241; Knox: 9881 7939; Melbourne: 8690 4056; Mildura: 5023 5980; Moorabbin: 9556 6128; Morwell: 5120 0351; Sale: 5142 2200; Seymour: 5735 0208; Shepparton: 5820 5878; Swan Hill: 5036 1600; Wangaratta: 5723 0848; Warrnambool: 5560 1333; Wodonga: (02) 6049 2673; Wonthaggi: 5671 4100
Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission (VEOHRC)
Level 3, 204 Lygon Street, Carlton Vic 3053
Tel: 1300 292 153; 1300 891 848
Email: information@veohrc.vic.gov.au
Web: www.humanrightscommission.vic.gov.au
Vixen Collective
Tel: 0414 275 959
Email: vixencollectivemelbourne@gmail.com
Web: https://vixencollective.net
Vixen Collective is a peer-only sex worker organisation.
Victorian Government Department of Health and Human Services
Child protection:
Tel (after hours crisis line): 13 12 78 (Monday to Friday: 5 pm to 9 am; weekends and public holidays: 24 hours)
Web: www.dhs.vic.gov.au/for-individuals/children,-families-and-young-people/child-protection