Indigenous Child Sexual Abuse Response Service
(Children's Services)
The Indigenous Child Sexual Abuse Response Service (ICSARS) is a community focused healing service that combines cultural and non-Indigenous ways of working to address the effects of child sexual abuse in the Derby region. As a response service, the Derby Service provides safety, healing and support services and education to children, individuals, families and/or communities according to need. This includes:
- Culturally appropriate healing methods to lessen the harm of child sexual abuse and to help make children strong.
- Children learning ways to keep safe, to live better lives and to have Friday ends and future partners who do not cause them harm.
- Adults and communities learning about how child sexual abuse damages their children, partner, family and kinship.
- Adults and communities understanding that it is up to them to make sure children are not sexually abused
- All putting things in place ways to ensure the safety of children, families and communities.
The Indigenous Child Sexual Abuse Response Service (ICSARS) will have the flexibility to refer on, broker services and/or deliver, with other agencies, hands-on family and community based healing and support services.
The service is being delivered in conjunction with Ngunga Women's Resource Centre. Although the Indigenous Child Sexual Abuse Response Service operates from a central office, outreach services to communities in the Derby region are provided.
The Service will operate under the guidance of an inclusive reference group.
Cost
Indigenous Child Sexual Abuse Response Services are provided to clients free of charge.
Referral
Requests for support can come from the client, a family member or carer, or may be made via a referral from another agency. Communities can ask for education too .
Location
Derby
Ngunga Women's Resource Centre
Loch Street
PO Box 642 , Derby WA 6728
Phone: (08) 9193 1455
Office hours 8am to 4pm Monday – Friday
No public transport available
Wheelchair access
Funding source: Department for Child Protection