Incest Survivors’ Association Inc. (ISA)

ISA is an association for survivors, friends of survivors, and those affected by incest and childhood sexual abuse. ISA’s philosophy is to provide trauma-focussed professional counselling, offer support services, provide information, life and parenting skills and support the strengths of its clients.

The Association has been providing a counselling and support service to the community since 1984. ISA was the first Western Australian non-government organisation to deal specifically with child sexual abuse and post-traumatic stress disorders in later life.

Over the past two decades, ISA has been conducting talks, lectures, workshops for professionals, contributing papers to seminars and conferences, and generally awakening community consciousness to the plight of victims of sexual assault, both intra and extra-familial.

ISA aims to assist in the breaking of generational cycles of abuse by assisting clients to build safe relationships and safe families. This may entail providing services to non-offending significant others' in relationship with the survivor.

The Association also aims to educate the community about the long-term harms of intrafamilial and extrafamilial child sexual abuse and supports child-positive attitudes in agreement with international human rights declarations. ISA provides a non-sexist, non-sectarian, non-political service that is respectful of client's core beliefs. Membership is open to anyone who agrees to abide by the rules and procedures in the Constitution. Reaching out can be difficult. The staff at ISA can offer a hand to you in support of your healing process. Concerned individuals are invited to join the Association to help stamp out child abuse and give a stronger voice to all those who have already become victims.

Other services offered by the Association include strength-based, solution focussed parenting groups; a resource library; and bi-annual information journals.

For more information contact Lois or Sandra on (08) 9227 8745 or log on to the website at www.isa.asn.au