Council of Single Mothers and their Children

Council of Single Mothers and their Children Inc. (CSMC) is a non-profit organisation founded in 1969 by single mothers to secure a better life for women parenting alone and their children. We achieve change by championing the agency, rights and needs of single mothers and their children and providing specialist support services.

CSMC provides single mothers with tailored support, information, financial aid and referral. We represent the needs and issues of single mothers and their children by working with government and community organisations, the media and research partners. CSMC also advocates to overturn social and economic disadvantages faced by single mothers and raise the status of single mothers and their children.
CSMC envisions a society that ensures social and economic inclusion for all single mothers and their children, across their lives.

Each year CSMC receives over 3000 contacts from single mother families seeking support, information and referral to assist them to secure basic human rights such as financial security; affordable housing; flexible work and education opportunities; legal protection; and health, safety and wellbeing for themselves and their children. We have over 5800 single mother members – membership is free for single mothers.
CSMC’s advocacy and service provision is founded on lived experience; all staff, board and volunteers are or have been a single mother.

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