INDIGO Junction has received a $3.7 million boost to build a new refuge to provide crisis accommodation and support for women and children in Midland.

The new funding for Midland is aimed to provide five new crisis accommodation units and support for women and children, allowing them time to heal, recover and thrive as they start to build a new future for themselves.

The funding adds on to Indigo Junction’s existing suite of services to help provide sanctuary to women experiencing family and domestic violence such as their Koolkuna Women’s Refuge.

The announcement comes two weeks after sector leaders gathered in Midland to discuss priorities in ending youth homelessness in the state as reported in State homelessness sector leaders gather in Midland.

In New Midland youth accommodation, Indigo Junction was also making use of a $5.7m funding boost to build 20 single-occupant rooms through the state’s community housing new build grant program.

For the youth crisis transitional housing project, Indigo Junction also received an injection of more than $423,000 help pay for electrical infrastructure costs.

The foundations for their Yaakiny youth accommodation were completed in August with the project scheduled for completion in June 2026.

Other recent developments in the space for people experiencing family and domestic violence include the safe phone initiative which received a new donation point in Midland in September.

Donated mobile phones are repurposed into untraceable phones that can be distributed for free through registered shelters, police stations, hospitals and frontline agencies such as Indigo Junction as reported in Safe Phone initiative for our domestic violence survivors.

Most recently, Indigo Junction has come on board as an agency partner organisation to distribute the safe phones.

In August, Indigo Junction said during the past year 44 per cent of clients they supported were safely rehoused or moved into long-term accommodation such as private rentals, community housing or transitional housing.

The remaining clients were either engaged in support services, in temporary accommodation or in less stable housing situations.

At the beginning of the year, Indigo Junction also received $356,000 to expand their domestic violence advocacy service over two years.

This allowed the organisation to provide specialised family and domestic violence (FDV) counselling services from within Indigo Junction instead of directing them to multiple agencies or providers they didn’t know.