Good Samaritan Inn - Melbourne

The Good Samaritan Inn provides short-term emergency accommodation for single women, and women with children, escaping family violence and homelessness. Guests are provided with a supportive, safe and clean place to stay, where they can attend to their immediate needs, prior to moving onto other short-term or transitional accommodation or return home safely. Our services have been divided into three distinct areas: 1) Helping women and children in crisis; 2) Prevention and early intervention; and 3) Community awareness. 1) Helping women and children in crisis Women and children stay at the Good Samaritan Inn from Monday through to Friday. During their stay, we fulfil as many of their needs as possible. These needs can range from basic clothing and toiletries, right through to Centrelink payments, intervention orders, reclaiming belongings and court attendances. 2) Prevention and early intervention Through our ‘We Can Do It’ project, it is our intent to build capacity in secondary schools across Melbourne to promote attitudinal and behavioural change in the next generation, which will prevent violence against women and their children in the future. 3) Community awareness Violence will continue if we are not appropriately funded, united in our stance and have a community that is unaware of its impacts. We work tirelessly to raise awareness within the community of the impact of family violence and the importance of prevention and early intervention.