Had trouble getting repairs done? KCLS wants to hear from you. We’re collecting peoples stories to show the WA Government that housing maintenance must improve.
KCLS services include information, advice and casework services to individuals, as well as community legal education, law reform, and community-capacity building projects.
KCLS aims to reduce legal disadvantage, increase the capacity of individuals to manage their lives effectively and ensure people understand their rights and obligations.
We are a free legal service that can help you with:
KCLS provides long and short-term case management, focusing on support in the areas of Family and Domestic Violence, Elder Abuse, and public tenancy support.
Our social services team can support you with:
We offer financial counselling, education and advocacy for individuals and families in the East Kimberley.
A financial counsellor can help you with:
We provide workshops, activities and create resources to the community to educate the people of the Kimberley about their legal rights.
As part of its practice, KCLS tackles systemic problems affecting our clients. We work towards change by amplifying local voices and identifying policies that disadvantage our clients and the wider community.
‘US Without Abuse’ Campaign is led by Kimberley Community Legal Services in partnership with Marninwarntikura Women’s Resource Centre. This initiative represents a unified commitment to debunk the normalisation of violence and foster a safer, more supportive community for all.
The dynamic campaign includes running ads over radio, television, social media and more. KCLS is partnering with other legal services in the region to roll out Community Legal Education workshops to Remote Aboriginal Communities in the Kimberley to spread the campaign and its important message into every part of the region.
The extreme heat in the Kimberley is felt more by public housing tenants who face many barriers to coping with heat. Tenants struggle to keep temperatures down in poor quality housing, are under financial pressure as they try to afford air conditioners and power bills and they feel the impacts of heat stress on daily health and wellbeing. The ‘Stuck in the Heat’ report calls for more to be done for public housing tenants in the Kimberley.
The “No More Humbug” research report identified the extent of Financial Elder Abuse in the Kimberley. An outcome of the report has been the development of resources that aim to reduce Aboriginal Financial Elder Abuse in the Kimberley and other Aboriginal Communities in remote regions.
Based on extensive interviews across the Kimberley, this work highlights the causes and prevalence of elder financial abuse, and what can be done to change things for our families and communities.
