McAuley Community Services for Women
McAuley provide 24/7 crisis support and temporary accommodation for women and their children to keep them safe from family violence and/or homelessness.
About
The vision of McAuley Community Services for Women is that women and children will be safe, supported and empowered to achieve their highest potential: all home safely.
McAuley House, Footscray is Victoria’s first purpose-built accommodation for women who are homeless. A place for rest, recovery and reconnection, the building also serves as a welcoming community hub. The model has also been expanded into Ballarat.
Projects
McAuley House Footscray
McAuley Services for Women is an accommodation building in Footscray for women who are homeless. This community hub comprises fifteen high needs rooms, ten low needs ‘bedsits’, a communal space containing a commercial kitchen, a dining room, and office space for administration staff.
The City of Maribyrnong arehighly supportive of the building in its role of housing women who are homeless, and also its role of lifting the standard of design in the precinct.
The new facility is a place that can be called ‘home’ for women supported by McAuley Community Services for Women, and is an exemplar for more of these desperately needed buildings.
A best practice example of how services to people who are homeless can be housed to offer dignity, to be responsive to the needs of its community, and offer stimulating environments that enrich and enable lives.
Winner – 2019 Victorian Homelessness Achievement Awards: Excellence in Ending Homelessness / Adults
Finalist – 2018 AIA Victoria Chapter Melbourne Prize
Finalist – 2018 AIA Victoria Chapter Multiple Housing Category
