Community Services

Mission Australia Community Services walk alongside people in need to help them find:

Pathways to strong families and healthy, happy children
We help by:

• Working in disadvantaged communities with children, their siblings and their parents to help build stronger, more resilient families and to create opportunities for change
• Assisting families in developing new skills for managing conflict and crises
• Working with local communities to support families and children
• Supporting grandparents who have primary care of their grandchildren
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Pathways away from homelessness
We help by:

• Offering services that prevent homelessness from occurring such as mental health support, financial counselling, literacy support, and family and individual support
• Providing crisis and transitional accommodation when homelessness does occur
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Pathways through a successful youth
We help by:

• Assisting young people to overcome drug and alcohol dependency, and avoid anti-social behaviour
• Intervening early to assist young people at risk of homelessness or family breakdown
• Assisting young people to stay at or re-enter school, take up other education opportunities or engage in training and employment
• Working with young people to build their self-esteem and help them become more resilient
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Pathways for life and work-ready skills
We help by:

• Working in partnership with other organisations and agencies to provide Australians with skills for life and lasting employment
• Providing vocationally orientated activities linked to direct employment outcomes, including guaranteed employment through operations such as social enterprises
• Addressing the non-vocational barriers faced by job seekers in their endeavour to gain sustainable long term employment through the Pathways to Employment program
• Delivering free course for disadvantaged Australians including the Federal Government's Language, Literacy and Numeracy Program
• Providing work experience and 'green jobs' through the National Green Jobs Corps and Greener Futures programs
• Assisting Stream 4 job seekers (those classified as the most disadvantaged) to access vocational training options

Early Learning Services
We provide high quality early learning services to enrich each child’s learning potential while recognising and supporting their unique social, emotional, physical and intellectual needs. The service is child centred, family focused and connected to the community.