Our purpose
We utilise the expertise of our services to advocate for systems change across diverse social justice issues to shape public and social policy that delivers better outcomes for marginalised communities.
We help those in need find the courage to move forward through enriching their lives and uniting the communities in which they live. By tackling the deep-seated challenges that affect people’s lives, we are working to create systemic change and brighter futures for all South Australians.
Our advocacy feeds into the services we provide, ensuring we hear and represent people’s concerns in public policy debates.
Project examples
Overcoming Loneliness: Loneliness is a significant issue in our community, impacting people's mental and physical health. The Overcoming Loneliness project aims to address and understand loneliness, raise awareness, and develop policy solutions.
Child Protection Reform: Reorienting our system to focus on keeping children living safety in their family, community and culture. This involves a substantial redirection of investment into helping at-risk families before the need for statutory intervention. Additionally, making reunification for children in care a priority by reflecting this in legislation, policy and practices.
Rental reform: As part of our longstanding work on reforming the private rental market, we’re actively working with the State Government to implement better protections for South Australian renters.
Family and Domestic Violence - intervention orders: We advocate for improvements to intervention orders (formally known as restraining orders) which are the primary legal protections used for women experiencing intimate partner violence. This involves reform across the systems, policy, and practice of the intervention order process to improve the accessibility, use and enforcement of intervention orders for women experiencing domestic violence.
Submissions
One of the ways we advocate is through the development of parliamentary and departmental submissions across the state and federal level.
Overcoming loneliness
Uniting Communities has committed to action to help South Australians to overcome loneliness.
