Domestic violence shelters across New South Wales are stretched to the limit, but a new model is offering survivors a glimmer of hope.
She said the past six weeks have been "disappointing and heartbreaking" to witness."They get stuck with nowhere to go."
"We had seven referrals this morning, and that was up until about 12:30pm," she told the ABC on a Thursday afternoon this month.Claudia Cummins, a state manager for The Salvation Army's family violence response, said women's refuges in the Illawarra and at Broken Hill in the state's Far West were "almost always at capacity".
The model sees families live in individual units with access to services rather than in a communal building.
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