Starick Services is a not for profit organisation working to implement strategies to protect women, young people and children who live in diverse locations such as small towns, indigenous communities, mining areas, fishing and farming communities.

Our regional Coordinators is funded by Department for Child Protection to work with practitioners, government and non-government agencies to facilitate integrated best practice, local responses to the identification, case management, coordination and monitoring of responses to family and domestic violence.

Our regional team provides a structural forum through which State wide protocols are followed regarding the sharing of information, risk assessment and safety planning.

Extensive research conducted on family and domestic violence in regional Australia shows that a greater portion of people living in regional Australia are victims of family and domestic violence compared to people living in urban Australia.

Our commitment to reconnect and engage as a community will achieve a greater result to the prevention of family and domestic violence in our rural and remote communities.

 

EAST KIMVERLEY

The East Kimberley Office, located in Wyndham, supports the regional towns of Halls Creek, Wyndham and Kununurra and 56 communities extending from Balgo in the south to Kalumburu and Oombulgurri in the north and Malangan which is located close to the Northern Territory border.

WEST KIMBERLEY

The West Kimberley office, located in Derby, includes the towns of Broome, Derby, Fitzroy Crossing and a large number of Aboriginal communities on the Dampier Peninsula. The region extends to Mullibidee and Kurlku in the south, across to Yiyili, Yulumbu, Ngallagunda and Marunbadi in the east and Kandiwal in the north.

MURCHISON GASCOYNE

Our office is located in Geraldton. More than 6,000 Aboriginal people live in Murchison Gascoyne region towns and 16 isolated communities. The region covers a broad geographical area - to Coral Bay in the North West, Eneabba and Carnamah in the south and just short of Leinster and Wiluna in the east. The region is large and encompasses a diverse landscape - from sea to desert - and a diverse population of Indigenous cultures and heritage.

GOLDFIELDS

It is the largest region in Western Australia and has a population of approximately 6000 Indigenous people.

It is bounded by the Little Sandy Desert and Gibson Desert to the North, the Wheatbelt region to the west, the Great Australian Bight in the South and the Northern Territory and South Australian borders to the east.

Our office is situated in Kalgoorlie, a vibrant, multi-racial, inland city of about 30,000 people.  Its major towns are Ravensthorpe, Esperance, Wiluna, Leinster, Leonora, Laverton, Coolgardie and Norseman.  There are also 17 remote communities, and Aboriginal organisations in most towns.

The region has a rich Indigenous history.  Traditional practices and lore business is practised in the north and east of the remote areas of the Ngaanyatjarra Lands, Tjuntjuntjarra and near Laverton.