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ORIC Spotlight On – Strengthening lililwans and bigiswun kids

26 May 2021
Safety and Wellbeing
Two women stand shoulder to shoulder. The woman on the right in an orange shirt has her hand on the shoulder of the other who wears an aqua coloured shirt.

Marninwarntikura Fitzroy Women’s Resource Centre’s strategic work is sustaining women of the Fitzroy Valley—and strengthening future generations.

Marninwarntikura Fitzroy Women’s Resource Centre in Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia was founded to support women facing family violence.

Today, Marninwarntikura’s number 1 strategic priority is ‘Making FASD history’. Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) has affected many in the community which led Marninwarntikura to partner with the University of Sydney to study the health and educational impacts of FASD.

Read more about these important studies and the help offered to those affected today in this month’s Spotlight On.