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Impact Report 2018 Housing Choices Australia
Live Your Best Life
Partners Mission Australia, Volunteer SA, Catherine House, Common Ground Adelaide.
About Self-Defense
Free course by instructors with a background in working in vulnerable women’s centres. 4-8 women attended each week with the course running for a total of nine weeks. Catherine House Program This free program worked to encourage and teach women about empowerment and self-confidence. The program ran for seven weeks with some women returning for the second part of the course. Women’s Group A number of female Common Ground residents experienced social isolation and expressed interest in building social connections with like-minded peers. The Women’s Group, developed in 2017, introduced fortnightly meetings with a focus on relationship building, skill development and interest projects.
Empowering Women
Impact All courses built confidence within individuals and also allowed the women to develop friendships which are still going strong.
Total Outcomes 8 women completed self-defense courses
5-9 women attended Common Ground each week 3-6 women regularly participated in the women’s group
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