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Fill Their Bowl Campaign

Violence : the leading cause of homelessness for women.

Pets are often forgotten when emergency food is provided to vulnerable people. SPSF is committed to changing this and making sure their bowls are full too. SPSF provides food to many charities so people in need can feed their pets.

For Homelessness Week if you don’t already donate, you can donate pet food to participating Coles stores in SA who support our Fill Their Bowl Campaign

Glenelg
Warradale
Rundle place
St Agnes
Norwood
Dernancourt
Greenacres
Ingle Farm
Ingle Farm – Walkleys
Tea Tree Plaza

You can also drop off directly to our headquarters Unit 4, 2-4 Marker Ave Marleston.

Domestic and family violence is the leading cause of homelessness for women, with 45% of all women and girls seeking homelessness assistance identifying family and domestic violence as a cause.

Housing insecurity and homelessness also play a critical role in enabling, or preventing, women achieving safety. Lack of access to safe housing creates an enormous hurdle that prevents many women from escaping violence..

If they do leave a violent home into homelessness, women often experience further violence. The risks, housing insecurity and poverty women experience after leaving violence often result in them returning to a violent partner. [2]

These risks and pressures were highlighted in the 2016 Personal Safety Survey, which revealed that
an estimated 275,000 Australian women suffered physical and/or sexual violence from their current
partner. Of those experiencing violence, 90,000 women wanted to separate but were unable to do so, with more than 20,000 saying the lack of money or financial support was the main reason they were unable to leave their violent partner.

Over 81,000 women did leave but then returned, with more than 13,000 saying a lack of money or having nowhere to go was the reason they returned, and a further 8,300 saying that they returned because of concern for their own or children’s safety or well-being.

Reasons identified for seeking homelessness assistance by women and girls [1]

Reasons
Number presenting to
homelessness services
Percentage of all women
and girls presenting

Reason – Family and domestic violence – Number presenting to
homelessness services 73,287 Percentage of all women
and girls presenting – 45%

Financial difficulties – Number presenting to homelessness services
– 62,571 – Percentage of all women and girls presenting – 39%

Housing crisis – Number presenting to homelessness services -58,316 – Percentage of all women and girls presenting 36%

Housing affordability stress – Number presenting to homelessness services – 52,305 – Percentage of all women and girls presenting – 32%

Inadequate or inappropriate
dwelling conditions – Number presenting to homelessness services
39,495 -Percentage of all women and girls presenting – 24%

[1] Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Specialist Homelessness Services Annual Report, 2022-23, Table: Clients 21
[2] Australian Bureau of Statistics, Personal Safety, Australia, 2016, Table 22.1

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