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What's at risk?
Everyday legal help to prevent crisis.
Community legal centres help hundreds of thousands of people every year to resolve everyday legal problems in areas like housing, relationships, debts and money problems, and discrimination.
People trust their local community legal centre to support them early, before legal problems snowball to crisis point.
Frontline domestic and family violence work.
Community legal centres play a crucial role in preventing and responding to domestic and family violence. Frontline family law and family violence services make up the largest area of work for the community legal sector.
People go to community legal centres for help to keep themselves and their children safe from violence.
Holistic, trauma-informed support.
Community legal centres recognise the impacts of trauma and discrimination on people's ability to access justice. We know that many people's legal issues are connected to other social and financial problems. Because of this, community legal centres employ not just lawyers but social workers, financial counsellors, Aboriginal community development workers, tenant advocates and more, to help people holistically.
People come to community legal centres for holistic support to untangle lots of different but connected problems all at once.
Education to help people and communities avoid legal problems.
Community legal centres understand that the best thing is often to help people avoid the legal system altogether. We educate and empower communities to prevent legal problems from emerging.
People can avoid legal trouble when they can access community legal education from their community legal centre.
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