ANNABELLE DANIEL, OAM

Chief Executive Officer

 Annabelle Daniel OAM, inaugural CEO of Women’s Community Shelters, has worked with local communities around NSW to establish, open and support the 11 crisis shelters in the Women’s Community Shelters network.  She has also established WCS as a Community Housing Provider which offers social and affordable housing, transitional housing, and multiple large-scale meanwhile-use homes for women aged 55+ experiencing homelessness. 

She continues her efforts to create more crisis shelters and preventative programs addressing domestic violence and women’s homelessness in New South Wales and is now expanding the network into Victoria.

Annabelle’s volunteer roles include Chair of Domestic Violence NSW (the peak body for domestic and family violence services in NSW); the Independent Member on the New South Wales Coercive Control Implementation Taskforce (leading the Domestic and Family Violence Sector and Lived Expertise Reference Groups) and member of the Primary Prevention Taskforce established by the Minister for Prevention Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault.

She has been a leader in women’s homelessness and DFV for several decades – also working on the front line as a Shelter Manager, and with the Federal Government as a Senior Departmental Leader within Services Australia, overseeing the Child Support Program, and as a Senior Investigator with the Commonwealth Ombudsman.