Our programs

Hume Riverina Community Legal Service is intentional in bringing a community development and collaborative approach to service provision to ensure people receive holistic care. This is achieved through integrated partnerships, including health justice partnerships, with community, education, health, and specialist family violence services.

These partnerships enable the provision of assistance through unique programs:

  • Overcoming the Invisible Hurdles to Justice for Young People Program (Invisible Hurdles Program), a four-way integrated partnership formed in 2015 with Albury Wodonga Aboriginal Health Service (AWAHS), North East Support and Action for Youth (NESAY), and Wodonga Flexible Learning Centre, to assist young people experiencing or at risk of family violence
  • Building Rights, Advocacy, Voice and Empowerment (BRAVE), an integrated family violence partnership with Centre Against Violence (CAV) and Upper Murray Family Care (UMFC) – Child and Family Services Team (CaFS) created in 2025 expanding the partnership with CAV that began in 2015. BRAVE provides trauma-informed, holistic legal assistance to people experiencing or at risk of family violence in North East Victoria
  • Integrated family violence partnership with Women’s Centre for Health and Wellbeing to support women experiencing and at risk of domestic and family violence in Albury
  • Integrated family violence partnership with Women’s Domestic Violence Court Advocacy Service (WDVCAS), Riverina Foodshare – Finley, Intereach and Vinnies Deniliquin to support women experiencing and at risk of family violence in Corowa, Deniliquin and Finley
  • Civil law program providing generalist civil legal assistance
    • across the Southern Riverina of New South Wales in partnership with Yes Unlimited and Intereach
    • in regional communities of North East Victoria including, Corryong, Mount Beauty and Myrtleford
  • Victorian family law family violence lawyer providing trauma-informed legal assistance to people experiencing or at risk of family violence and family law problems
  • Advancing Housing Justice collaborative project with six regional Victorian community legal centres to address housing challenges
  • Duty lawyer services at Victorian Magistrates’ Courts in Myrtleford, Wangaratta and Wodonga, providing assistance to court users for family violence intervention orders