Serving our community for over 50 years
The Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service (VALS) is an
Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation (ACCO)
with over 50 years experience providing high quality, culturally capable legal and community justice services
to our people across Victoria.
Our organisation supports Aboriginal people of all ages and genders in the areas of criminal, family and civil law. We also have our dedicated youth practice; Balit Ngulu and our Wirraway Practice, supporting clients who experience harms due to the actions of police or prison authorities.
Our Community Justice Programs team is staffed by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who provide culturally safe services including; Transitional housing for women through Baggarook, support when people first enter custody through the Custody Notification Service, culturally appropriate sentencing through our Aboriginal Community Justice Reports and a theraputic wraparound service for the whole family; Ngang Gak.
Come work with us at VALS. VALS provides legal assistance and supports across seven sites in Victoria. We welcome the most committed legal advocates, professionals and support staff who work to advance Aboriginal self-determination and the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
living in Victoria.
Our people support Aboriginal community members with both their legal and non-legal needs in a
trauma–informed, strengths–based and holistic service model. VALS is committed to diversity, equality and inclusion. We celebrate our team of diverse Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGBTQIA+ and individuals from different cultures, language groups and experiences.
VALS pays our deepest respect to traditional owners across Victoria, in particular, to all Elders past, present and emerging.
We also acknowledge all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Victoria and pay respect to the knowledge, cultures and continued history of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nations.
We pay our respects to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders who have maintained the struggle to achieve justice.
Across Australia, we live on unceded land. Sovereignty has never been ceded. It always was and always will be, Aboriginal land.
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