womens refuge centres - no support workers available./ alone to figure out stuff.

So last night I stayed in a Womens Refuge home for the first time.

This was quite an eye opener

1) I was shocked that women are dropped off and left there without any supports in place......


the people who take you there take your name, number and reason for being there and just show you to your room and leave without even saying goodbye.

Instead of having support people to talk to we were left to talk to each other...sharing stories and offering hope to each other that things may get better.

One lady had been there 3 weeks without any support systems, visiting her and checking in.

I think this is very very wrong.


What is up with our public system where woman who are in crisis are just dropped somewhere and not given the chance to talk about their feelings,
its a very very unstable time, there is a lot of unknowns to consider, but this is OK in our public system to just leave a woman and run.
There's not even patrols - checking everything is OK.

I have to say I think things are very very wrong here.


I will be talking to someone from violence services on Monday about my concerns.