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Downs & West Community Support

DWCS is a ministry of the Sisters of Charity. If offers encouragement and practical support to people in rural and remote areas of QLD who are affected by destructive climatic conditions and matters beyond their control.

Dr Steve Burroughs Foundation

Dr Steve Burroughs Foundation Aims and Objectives
An awareness
a. To promote understanding of struggling indigenous people within remote Australian communities
b. To advance the care of indigenous people within remote Australia communities
c. To organise events and activities to generate income for the cause.
d. To facilitate the purchase, development and management of products for the use in training and facilitating Human Sustainability within remote indigenous communities.

A multicultural training service
a. To create employment opportunities by giving training to indigenous communities and provide efficiencies in basic skills leading to
b. To promote work in remote indigenous communities to assist the education of poor people.
c. In the interests of public health, to educate people about Well-Being fostering Human Sustainability e.g. women and Children safety in the remote regions of Australia.
d. To carry out these activities in remote indigenous communities.

Drake Village Resource Centre Inc

A community hub offering a range of services and support to locals.
Drake is a small rural village & the DVRC has supported the local community with assisting in programes to help with the ongoing mental stress from fires and drought. Having a coffee outlet helps with the social needs in our small community. The DVRC is run by volunteers, we continue to work and support the local Hall.

Dream Centre Perth

Dream Centre Perth is a local Charity that empowers community engagement to give love, dignity and care for people doing it tough on the streets of Perth.

Our Mission is to Find a Need and Fill it, and Find a Hurt and Heal it.

Our main program at the moment is called Walk the Beat.

This is our regular community engagement walk that occurs on the first Saturday +the third Saturday of every month, to help those experiencing homelessness.

During Walk-the-Beat, we give food, coffee vouchers, bottled water and swags provided by our generous sponsors. We also provide basic first aid care if required by those who have first aid training.

We meet at a set point, get into teams, receive some training and then head off in different planned routes in Northbridge and through the City CBD areas to assist those that are experiencing homelessness.

DreambuildersCare

Low-Cost Supermarket & Op-Shop
Emergency Relief Food
Community meals Cafe - Free Meals 4-nights a week

Dress for Success Hobart

The mission of Dress for Success is to empower women to achieve economic independence by providing a network of support, professional attire and the development tools to help women thrive in work and in life.

Dress for Success Perth

We are a charity with a mission to empower women to achieve economic independence by providing them with professional work attire, a personalised styling service, mentoring and a suite of career skills. We are in the business of building confidence so women can move forward in their career/life journey.

Dress for Success South East Melbourne

DFSSSEM provide personalised styling of appropriate clothing for interviews, coaching in interview presentation and development workshops to increase personal preparedness and confidence after a long period of absence from the workplace or no work experience. We now cater for Men, and the Transgender community, plus a specialised digital literacy program for over 45's.

Dress for Success Sydney

Dress for Success Sydney is a registered charity that improves the employability of women in need in NSW by providing, free of charge, professional clothing, a network of support and the career development tools to help women achieve self-sufficiency.

Drought Angels

Drought Angels provide direct and timely financial assistance, essential resources and meaningful relief for Primary Producers across Australia impacted by drought and natural disasters.

Drug and Alcohol Services Australia Ltd

Our services include, Sobering Up Shelter, Methamphetamine Outreach, Case management, harm minimisation sessions and ongoing support for COMMIT Court bail and parole clients who are heavy alcohol or drug users; a Therapeutic Community offering non-medical detox leading into a longer-term 20 bed residential program, Transitional After Care and Independent Living Program.

Drug ARM - Brisbane South

Drug ARM is a specialist not-for-profit, non-government organisation that supports people, families and communities to achieve positive transformation through awareness, rehabilitation and management.

Drummond Memorial Public School

Drummond Memorial Public School has a student enrollment of 186 students. Our demographic is approximately 33% Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and 33% English as an additional language or dialect. Of this 33% most of our these students are Ezidi refugees who ave fled from ISIS in Iraq and suffer from severe trauma related to their time under occupation. Our school is predominantly low socio-economic and as a result our school runs breakfast club and lunch club each day. We provide uniforms to many students and find as many ways as we can to subsidise things like camps, school equipment, uniforms and excurions. We are home to a special needs unit for students with autism, a tutorial centre for students repeatedly suspended from other schools and a unit called the Karayuna Centre which runs a program to get students back on track and ready to rejoin their own school in a positive and effective way.

Drummond Street Services – Ready Steady Family

We provide counselling to individuals, couples, children and families presenting with relationship, mental health and well-being risks. We delivered 9,886 sessions to 3,179 clients and we also delivered 126 community / group / seminar events to 1,399 attendees as part of our community engagement and education.

Drummond Street Services Inc.

Established 131 years ago, we provide counselling services to individuals, couples, children and families presenting with issues with relationships, mental health and well-being risks.

Dubbo Neighbourhood Centre

Local neighbourhood centre involved in drought relief work and more.

Dundas Area Neighbourhood Centre Inc

Community centre providing services and activities to surrounding communities. Provision of food hampers and support to local residents.

We run our programs at no cost to the community and our food packages are donated.

Dundula State School

Dundula SS is a small school of approx 70 students. We have a low ICSEA value of 6 / 100 which relates to the socio-economic status of our families as well as a number of other social factors (low employment, educational level of parents, housing etc). We have a chaplain 2 days per week and have many high needs children and a high proportion of indigenous children. Our staff are committed to improving educational and social outcomes for our children. Many of children see school as their safe place. We value education greatly and aspire to have as many of our students break the poverty cycle as we can. We want to help them see how a good education can help them break this cycle. We work hard to provide the students with their essential needs, when many come to school without these things. Our staff work hard to provide our students with a safe and caring environment. We acknowledge the correlation between attendance and achievement and work hard to improve attendance for some families.

Dunlea Centre, Australia's Original Boys' Town

Dunlea Centre, Australia’s Original Boys’ Town is a specialised co-educational, Years 7 to 10 school and residential program catering for disadvantaged young people who are at risk of family breakdown, disengagement from education and entry into the care of the Minister for Youth Justice.

Our motto is “A Place for Change” and our aims are educational gain and behavioural change. The Centre provides education, social skills development, counselling support and parenting classes. These combined, assist our young people and families to build relationships, engage in education and improve their own future together.

Dunolly Primary School

Primary school in central Victoria providing education to rurally isolated students in the highly disadvantaged shire of Central Goldfields.

Dutton Park State School

Primary School in Dutton Park. Provides education to student from Prep to Year 6.

DVConnect

Our vision is that all relationships are free from domestic, family and sexual violence. Our mission is that through collaboration we enable seamless pathways from violence to safety and beyond. DVConnect exists to help Queenslanders escape domestic, family and sexual violence by providing crisis helplines, as well as emergency transport and accommodation away from violence. DVConnect is a not-for-profit organisation that has provided state-wide specialist domestic, family and sexual violence crisis counselling, intervention, information, safety planning and pathways to safety for almost 20 years.

EACH - Ipswich

EACH provides a range of health, disability, counselling and mental health services across Australia.

EACH Social & Community Health Centre - Victoria

Mental health outreach support to people with mental health, homelessness and complex needs. EACH's principal activities remained the provision of support across its many
communities through the delivery of its 10 major service types, these being: Primary
Health Care (including GP Allied Health, Nursing and Oral Health Services, Health
Promotion), Disability and Aged Care Services, Mental Health Services, (including
NDIS services)
Alcohol and Other Drug Services, Youth Services, Child and Family Services,
(including
Child Care, Early Childhood Intervention Services, Youth Services, Mediation and
Family Relationship Services), Counselling and targeted psychological services
(including Problem Gambling counselling, Victims of Crime support, Financial
counselling), Family Violence Interventions and Social Housing Services through its
fully owned subsidiary company, EACH Housing Ltd.

Eagle Point Primary School

Eagle Point Primary School is a rural school situated in the township of Eagle Point, between Bairnsdale and Paynesville in a picturesque setting overlooking Lake King, part of the magnificent Gippsland Lakes.