SPARK- helping sole parents

Welcome to SPARK RESOURCE CENTRE

SPARK Resource Centre Inc aims to resource sole parents and pregnant women through information, counselling, practical support and self-help strategies in a community setting to promote positive participation by sole parents in family life and within the wider community. SPARK aims to promote and foster understanding and acceptance of sole parents and their children by the community in order that they may be free from economic, legal and social discrimination.

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Aims

        • SPARK is a sole parent agency, which offers practical and emotional support for sole parents and single pregnant women.
        • It actively co-operates and offers supports to other agencies who have sole parent clients.
        • SPARK aims to foster understanding and acceptance of sole parent families in Australian society.
        • To provide resources and encouragement to sole parents to improve their competence and self-reliance in all aspects of their lives.

 

Objectives

    • To break the cycle of abuse and destructive relationships (this includes education of both sole parents and the community about the effects: short and long term of domestic violence).
    • Alleviate poverty and advocate with governments re this objective (includes providing emergency relief and free recycled clothes and goods).
    • Assist and advocate for sole parents to access all available resources available to them (e.g. housing, education etc).
    • To provide appropriate therapy for survivors of abuse.
    • To alleviate social isolation and enhance life and parenting skills of sole parents.