Kunga Stopping Violence Program

The Kunga Stopping Violence Program (Kunga) is based in Alice Springs and works with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women who have been incarcerated in the Alice Springs Correctional Centre with a history of violent offending.

The program runs a four-week course in prison twice a year on topics including trauma, grief, loss, violence, and anger to help participants to build trust, gain personal insight, skills, and confidence.

The Kunga program graduates are then visited by case managers and helped to make plans for when they are released.

Kunga staff continue working with women after they are released through intensive and responsive support, home visits, referrals, mentoring, a drop-in space, and social programs.

It is a voluntary program and seeks to help women break cycles of violence in their lives and to keep them out of prison.

An evaluation of the program was conducted in 2020.