Community Reintegration
How we can help
Community Reintergration
We provide free, accessible legal information and advice to help individuals understand their rights and options.
If you are returning from prison we may be able to help you by providing support through:
- Parole Support
- In house Counselling
- Applications for housing- Department of Housing, Community housing, MRAC
- Working with you and your job active provider to assist in finding employment, training or volunteering that you are interested in.
- Transport to attend appointments such as for employment or parole reporting.
- Contacting and checking up on family members to see if they are ok.
Linking into other services that RAW programs offer
- Money Business- Financial Numeracy and Literacy
- Emergency Relief
- Financial Counselling
- PRAC- Assistance in finding a private rental
- Community Legal Service – Legal advice and assistance in Criminal Injuries compensation, Tenancy issues such as debt or terminations, family Law as well as other areas of Law.
Linking into services in the community
- Specialised counselling such as Drug & Alcohol and Family Violence
- Job Service providers
- Rehabilitation Providers
- Land Groups
- ALS or Legal Aid
- NDIS
- Other Emergency relief agencies
- Educational Facilities eg, TAFE
- Mental Health services
- Parenting services eg Ngala
Assistance with returning to your remote community from prison
- Transport Options Program ( TOP) where we can take you back to your community in the Midwest, Murchison and Gascoyne straight from the prison _if there is no other option available _
- Working with you and your job active provider to assist in finding employment, training or volunteering that you are interested in.
- Transport to attend appointments such as for employment or parole reporting.
- Contacting and checking up on family members to see if they are ok.
If you are returning to the Midwest, Murchison and Gascoyne regions for your release you can be referred to us from any of the prisons or Reintegration service providers in Western Australia. You can also be referred to us if you are currently in Greenough Regional Prison but will be living in another part of WA after your release and we will work with you while you are at Greenough Regional Prison and refer you to the appropriate Reintegration provider for your region for help after release.
Referrals are made once you are within 6 months of your earliest release date, just chat with the Transitional Manager at the prison you are in to be referred.
How Can We Help
Legal Guidance You Can Trust
Indigenous Women’s Legal Programme
This is an outreach services for Aboriginal women and we offer free legal information and advice covering most aspects of the law.
We travel to communities within the Mid West as far as Meekatharra, including Mt Magnet, Cue and Yalgoo.
Individual Disability Advocacy Service
IDAS is a free, independent and confidential advocacy service for people with disabilities, their family members, and carers within the Midwest and Gascoyne region.
