The Immigrant Women’s Support Service (IWSS) is a community based organisation which works with women and children of non-English speaking background who are or have been in violent domestic situations and/or have experienced rape and/or sexual assault.
IWSS is a crisis and support service which provides culturally appropriate support, information, short-term counselling and referral. The service employs bilingual, bicultural workers qualified in the social work and behavioural sciences field.
IWSS works from within a feminist framework which values cultural diversity and recognises the disadvantages faced by women and children of non-English speaking backgrounds which arise from the structural inequalities existing in society.
IWSS works to assist women of non-English speaking backgrounds and their children to live in safety and security and access services and facilities to make their independent survival possible.