Empowering people to create the life they choose
Juno works with women and trans and gender diverse people and their children in Melbourne’s northern suburbs who are experiencing homelessness and family violence. Formerly known as WISHIN*, we have a long history of partnering with women to help them make lasting change in their lives.
What we do
Our primary role is to support people in crisis, and their children, to find secure accommodation and access resources. We also support them to find and move into long-term housing and access other specialised supports.
Many of the people we work with face complex issues which may act as a barrier to safe long-term housing and make it difficult for them to use other services. Our staff take a holistic approach and are skilled at working with clients with challenges including mental ill-health, trauma, poverty, family violence and involvement with the justice system.
We provide homelessness and specialist family violence support, as well as working with people experiencing early signs of being at risk of homelessness and those working on long-term goals for economic independence. We also support clients to recover from trauma and connect with their communities.
* Women’s Information Housing and Support in the North
How we work
We are an independent, intersectional feminist organisation, with a commitment to social change. Our approach to support is trauma and violence informed, anti-racist, anti-oppressive and lived and living experience led.
We take a person-centred, strengths-based approach, drawing on evidence from research, practice wisdom and lived experience to best support people.
We have deep understanding of the issues faced by women and gender diverse people experiencing homelessness and the close links between gender, poverty, family violence and homelessness.
Juno’s staff work with an intersectional feminist lens. We understand that gender inequality intersects with other forms of disadvantage and marginalisation, significantly affecting the agency, opportunities, and physical, mental, and social health of women and gender diverse people.
Advocating for change
We support women and gender diverse people experiencing marginalisation and significant challenges in their lives.
We also speak out for and amplify the voices of the people we support to increase awareness of the challenges they face, the support required, and to advocate to change the systems and structures that hold them back.
Accessibility and inclusion
We are committed to making our services accessible and inclusive for everyone we support — you can read more about our Commitment to Accessibility and LGBTIQASB+ Inclusion.
We are committed to being inclusive of trans and gender diverse people and continue to strengthen our practice to reflect this.
