Our Impact

Djirra has touched the lives of thousands of Aboriginal women through legal and non-legal support and cultural programs. We have also played a crucial role in advocating for the rights of our women and children across the country.Here is a snapshot of our key impacts. View our Annual Reports to find out more.

Legal Supports

Across Financial Year 23-24, our legal team:
700
Assisted Clients
Provided
1000
legal assistances
Completed
400
legal assistances
Provided
200
non-legal supports
I have been a client of Djirra for five years now since leaving my children's father due to domestic family violence. I feel fortunate and am extremely grateful to have had Djirra by my side during some tough times. I wouldn't be where I am today without their support, assistance, and guidance... The team at Djirra are compassionate, accommodating and friendly. I really appreciate their dedication, understanding, check-ins and support they provided. Thank you to all that have stood by my side and have kept us safe.
- Djirra client

Early Intervention & Prevention Programs

In over twenty years, more than 16000 women have participated in Sisters Day Out, Dilly Bag and Young Luv, delivering over 400 workshops across the state of Victoria.Across Financial Year 2023-2024, we held:
0
Sisters Day Out events for 1024 women
0
Dilly Bag programs for 132 women
0
Young Luv programs for 217 of our girls and young women
Dilly Bag is such a safe and welcoming environment. It does help you get a weight lifted off your shoulders coming in. I went with my mum, and it was a big step for mum actually going away, because she has anxiety and doesn’t go lots of places. After a couple of days, she didn’t want to come back home.
- Dilly Bag participant

Individual Supports

Across Financial Year 23-24, our individual supports team:
300
Assisted Clients
Over
8000
hours
When you come in, especially if you’re in like a crisis situation, you actually feel like you can just sit and don’t have to go straight into it. When I came in, it was sit down, have a cup of tea – let’s just chill. We don’t have to talk about anything, just sit and wait until I’m in a space where I’m able to… D’you know?
- Djirra client

Koori Women’s Place

Since its inception, over 3800 women have participated in our Koori Women’s Place cultural and wellbeing workshops, which are delivered across various platforms to increase reach, such as online and face-to-face at our Abbotsford and Melton sites. Across Financial Year 2023-2024, we delivered
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workshops to 617 women.
I’ve gone to the KWP workshops, [they’ve] been absolutely fabulous. Because they’re not just teaching us other things that we can do, whether it be art or whether it be craft or whatever it is. It’s about spending the time with our women. And learning about each other and about our culture and you know, being comfortable with who we are. Whereas out in society, not a lot of us are comfortable with who we are because of society expectations.
- KWP participant

Cultural Training

Across Financial Year 2023-2024, Djirra held:
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Yarning About Cultural Safety
Workshops for 150 participants
Child Protection is incredibly scary, but for Aboriginal people it is extra loaded. As a practitioner, even if you know it with your head, by the time you finish the Djirra training you know it with your heart as well. It is just cementing what people know intellectually, emotionally – because you feel it. And as non-Aboriginal organisations, we can’t train staff on that. So to have an ACCO supporting this work it is such an incredible gift for us non-Aboriginal people.
- Yarning About Cultural Safety participant, Mainstream organisation

Policy & Advocacy

Across Financial Year 23-24, our Policy and Communications teams:
Made
0
Submissions to national and Victorian
inquiries and committees
Facilitated
0
media commentaries and interviews