About Us
CSMC is a statewide community organisation run for and by single mothers and their children. We provide telephone support and counselling, referral, advice and emergency relief to single mothers throughout Victoria, and have over 2100 single mother members. CSMC aims to improve the conditions of single mother headed families and is funded by the Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (having recently moved from Department of Human Services). We work closely with our members as well as many organizations and institutions that support single mothers, including the National Council of Single Mothers and their Children (NCSMC) and the Victorian Council of Social Services (VCOSS). CSMC is well recognised as a source of expert advice on issues of relevance to single mother headed families. Our expertise is grounded in the concerns expressed to us by single mothers calling our telephone contact line.
Single Mothers: a resource for parenting solo - A publication by the Parenting Research Centre in consultation with CSMC Vic. Funded by the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development. Copies are available from the Council of Single Mothers and their Children, which you can access by emailing csmc@csmc.org.au or ringing 9654 0622, (freecall for country callers) 1800 077 374.
Budget 2009 - A summary of the impact on single mothers of the Federal Budget 2009.
ACOSS Analysis of proposed changes to FTB indexation - Fact sheet on Family Payments
Report on Emergency Relief in Victoria - Under Pressure: Costs of living, financial hardship and emergency relief in Victoria by Benno Engels, Rivkah Nissim and Kathy Landvogt
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