Mission Australia

1. Biggera Waters (Labrador)
(Employment Services Offices)

100 Brisbane Road ...

2. The changing taste of welfare services - The evolution of Cafe One
(Document Downloads)

This publication focuses on the role the provision of food to disadvantaged people has played in Mission Australia’s history in Queensland - a journey that began with the Brisbane City Mission and continues ...

3. The Families on the Fringe report
(Document Downloads)

... and Oakey (an inland rural town west of Brisbane) and reports on the reasons for their move and the issues faced. ...

4. Nightspot Youth Homelessness Initiative
(Community Services/Community Services)

...  Nightspot will become operational in Melbourne and Brisbane (Logan) in January 2009. Click here to view the Nightspot mini-site  ...

5. Café One on Wickham
(Community Services/Community Services)

Café One on Wickham, located in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley, is a café where people who are homeless, or at-risk of homelessness, can access a range of services including:   ...

6. Catalyst-Clemente Program
(Community Services/Community Services)

... Mission Australia State Office: Brisbane (07) 3847 8411 Sydney (02) 9641 5000 Melbourne (03) 8615 2200 Adelaide (08) 8218 2800 Perth (08) 94932447  ...

7. Mission Australia winner celebrates with BBQ cooked by celebrity chef Ben O'Donoghue
(News/Media Releases Archive)

Heather Edwards from Greenslopes was the lucky winner of Mission Australia’s ‘Ben O’Donoghue BBQ’ competition, and on Saturday 13 February, celebrated her luck with nine of her closest friends, a brand ...

8. Feds should play role in urban planning to improve housing affordability
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... in inner city areas around the country – such as in Pyrmont-Ultimo in Sydney, New Farm in Brisbane, Kensington in Melbourne and East Perth. “I believe it’s in the national interest for the Federal Government ...

9. The Mission Australia Story
(Pathways/About Us)

... a clear need for help, the City Mission movement, which had developed in the United Kingdom, found itself taking root in Australia. In 1859 the Town and Country Mission (later to be known as the Brisbane ...

10. Annual Review
(Pathways/About Us)

... in Brisbane who have multiple and complex needs Despite record number of low unemployment, Mission Australia’s employment services grew, and we assisted 202,000 people – an increase of 42,500 people ...

11. Community Services in Queensland
(Community Services/Community Services by State)

... Australia and Griffith University. Operating as a family support service, Pathways supports families with children aged 4-12 in the Inala and Carole Park areas of Brisbane. The program improves the opportunities ...

12. QLD Volunteer Opportunities
(Volunteer/Volunteer Opportunities)

... Youth Homelessness Program in Logan (Brisbane) is urgently seeking applications for volunteer Drivers. Nightspot is an emergency accommodation model that allows low-risk, vulnerable youth to stay in the ...

13. Corporate Volunteering Opportunities
(Volunteer/Volunteer Opportunities)

... suburb in the south west of Brisbane. Our clients & staff would really enjoy a day out to see the sights of Brisbane. As a team you would be asked to provide transport, lunch and entry fees. Please ...

14. Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery Mid-winter Ball.
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... go towards a new homeless program, Nightspot. Nightspot is currently being piloted in Brisbane’s outer suburbs and is aimed at preventing homelessness among young people. Family conflict is the main ...

15. The Westpac Foundation
(Partnerships/Major Corporate and Community Partners)

The Westpac Foundation has contributed significant funds to Mission Australia's Pathways to Prevention project, both in Brisbane's disadvantaged suburb of Inala and also Girraween in Perth. Pathways ...

16. Increased rents create greater risk of homelessness
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... foster care in 2003 and she is now allowed fortnightly visitations. Tracey eventually moved into Roma House and more recently into semi-independent housing at Brisbane’s Boundary Street boarding complex. ...

17. Work for dole project reconstructing history in SA
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... ways to work together. Since then, similar services from Brisbane to Perth and Hobart also joined up and it officially became one national organisation in 1996. Its services are centred around: Family ...

18. University courses for disadvantaged Australians offer a path out of poverty
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... lead to social interaction, learning and community participation. Since beginning in 2003, Catalyst-Clemente is now offered in Sydney, Brisbane and Canberra, with the possibility of courses in Perth ...

19. Australian-first study shows achievements of ground-breaking early intervention program
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... systems in the future. Pathways takes a ‘whole of community’ approach targeting children, their families and schools in the south-western Brisbane suburb of Inala with the aim of helping children make ...

20. Roma House - A new service for homeless Queenslanders launched in Brisbane
(News/Media Releases Archive)

A breakthrough Mission Australia service targeting the state’s most high needs homeless people was launched today in Brisbane. Unique in Queensland, Roma House in Spring Hill will provide a 24-hour, ...

21. Get adventurous for charity
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... The event is suitable for all fitness levels, and takes between three and five hours. Urban Max has been successfully staged in Brisbane and will held in Sydney in November. This is the first time the ...

22. Increased Rents Create a Greater Risk of Homelessness - Queensland
(News/Media Releases Archive)

National Homeless Persons’ Week, 6-12 August A 17% hike over two years in Brisbane’s average rent is creating an affordable housing crisis and causing many disadvantaged singles and families to be at ...

23. Youth Survey uncovers the differences between young Queenslanders living in Brisbane and rural areas
(News/Media Releases Archive)

Young Queenslanders living in rural/regional areas are more concerned about suicide and self harm than those living in Brisbane, according to a survey carried out by community service organisation, Mission ...

24. Brisbane's War Chronicles recorded by unemployed
(News/Media Releases Archive)

In time for ANZAC Day, a group of unemployed people from Brisbane is capturing the memories of women at war – those left behind and those called into service – during World War I and II. The documentary-style ...