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Our Centre

The Illawarra Women’s Trauma Recovery Centre provides comprehensive and long-term support to women who have experienced domestic, family and sexual violence. Through an innovative wrap-around approach, the Centre will support women to live independent and secure lives for the wellbeing of current and future generations.

The Centre is an Australian-first community-led initiative. It has been co-designed with women with lived experience, professional experts and service providers to ensure the best level of care.

The Women’s Trauma Recovery Centre is an initiative of the Illawarra Women’s Health Centre and has received $25 million in federal funding for its opening in 2024.

Our design model

New Model Of Care

In this report we outline the findings from the co-design process including the core components of the model of care, the principles, and goals of the Centre.

Our business case

In 2020, The NSW Ministry of Health provided funding to develop the Women’s Trauma Recovery Centre Business Case. It is important the Business Case is read in conjunction with the Design Model above. 

Acknowledgement of Country

The Illawarra Women’s Trauma Recovery Centre is situated on the land of the Dharawal Nation. We acknowledge the traditional custodians of this land and we pay our respects to Elders past and present for they hold the memories, traditions and hopes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia. 

This land is, was, and always will be traditional Aboriginal land. We acknowledge that we work in the context of generations of resilient, strengths-based, holistic resistance to violence in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

We commit to actively supporting and promoting the voices of Aboriginal people and organisations in our work. We fully support for the Uluru Statement from the Heart.