People contact Peninsula Lighthouse because they, or someone they care about, is experiencing or at risk of experiencing harm from family and domestic violence or abuse. They seek help.
Our role is to listen and guide you through this storm by providing caring and high-quality services, so you understand the choices in front of you from this moment on.
Anyone can access help from Peninsula Lighthouse.
It takes courage to reach out—whether for yourself or for someone you care about. You’ve done well by taking this first step with Peninsula Lighthouse.
Peninsula Lighthouse receives direct enquiries, as well as referrals from 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732), our local police and other community organisations. You may have been encouraged to contact us by a family member, friend, neighbour or colleague—or simply found us searching online for help.
Whether you need guidance through the storm of abuse and violence, or you want to be equipped to recognise and respond appropriately to relational harm or abuse in our community, you’re in the right place.
Peninsula Lighthouse, founded in 2018, is a public benevolent institution that advocates for social and public welfare in the context of family and domestic violence on the Central Coast of NSW.
The organisation is a Registered Charity (ACNC) and is an eligible deductible gift recipient (DGR) allowing tax-deductibility of financial donations or bequests (ATO).
Visit The Australian Charities and Not-for-Profit Commission (ACNC) to view our registration profile as a Registered Charity in NSW.
Family and domestic violence is a serious health and welfare problem in NSW. And we understand what you’re living through.
Our responders are motivated to help you because of their own lived and learned experience of family and domestic violence and abuse. They have experienced or witnessed it. Helped others through it, including family members, friends, neighbours and colleagues. Survived it. Grown from it. Reflected upon it.
We believe your experience is real and distressing. We also accept that it is probable that many offenders were also once victims of violence. Sadly, our community on the Central Coast reports alarmingly high incidences of family and domestic abuse. We hope for better outcomes for everyone in our community.
To be a beacon of hope and restoration after abuse.
To transform lives from surviving to thriving.
Our vision is for a safe, compassionate community where everyone is valued and violence has no place.
Our mission is to help people transform their lives from surviving abuse to thriving in their local community.
Grounded in Faith Love Hope Acceptance & Compassion.To provide education, counselling and support from prevention through to recovery from family and domestic violence.
Services are aligned with client and community needs:
Help-seeking creates change. We are stronger together.
Peninsula Lighthouse serves the Central Coast Community by providing appropriate support to those who have suffered in a storm of trauma of abuse in the home. Aiming to keep homes free from harm, we partner with people to pave a pathway of success in life, to the point where they feel stronger. We seek to serve in transforming lives from simply “surviving to thriving”.
Assisting people in working towards a fruitful future, the key goals that Peninsula Lighthouse aims to achieve includes the following:
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A safe, compassionate community where everyone is valued and violence has no place.
To help people transform their lives from surviving abuse to thriving in their local community.
Transforming lives from surviving to thriving
Providing individuals a unique tailored assessment to help them with;
Your one-stop shop counselling support service on the Central Coast