Mission Australia

1. Crime and Social Isolation: Beyond Moral Panics and Bad Parents
(Download:Social Policy Seminars)

Dr Murray Lee is senior lecturer in criminology at the University of Western Sydney in the School of Applied Social and Human Sciences. Dr Murray has also been a research coordinator on a large three-year ...

2. NSW/ACT Volunteer Opportunities
(Volunteer/Volunteer Opportunities)

... Court Support Service ‘We put Victims first’ Mission Australia needs your help to support victims of crime Support victims of crime through the court process Sydney-wide service Must have ...

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

... families and healthy, happy children: Pathways to Prevention Project, Inala The Pathways to Prevention Project is an innovative crime prevention and early intervention partnership between Mission ...

4. Program wins crime prevention award
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Mission Australia’s crime prevention program for young people from Pacific Islands backgrounds and their families, the Pacifika Support Service has been named the NSW winner of the Australian Crime and ...

5. U-Turn graduates donate car to victim of crime
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A group of young Tasmanians today graduated from Mission Australia's U-Turn automotive training course, donating a rebuilt Mitsubishi Lancer to a victim of crime. Mission Australia’s State Director Noel ...

6. Youth Beat service to help young Tasmanians
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... will improve. “This will be achieved by developing and supervising weekend activities to increase safety and potentially decrease crime.” An arts competition was recently held to encourage young people ...

7. Tasmanian youth wanted for mobile arts competition
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... will be achieved by developing and supervising weekend activities to increase safety and potentially decrease crime. “By providing an after house point of contact, it is also hoped young people’s safety ...

8. Young people in Adelaide’s south on a roll to prevent crime, bridge generation gap
(News/Media Releases Archive)

Young people in Adelaide’s south have come up with a ‘Crackerjack’ idea to help prevent crime and bridge the generation gap between old and young at a special Mission Australia lawn bowls event at the ...

9. Supporting Tasmanian communities for children
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... skills from an early age and prevent social problems, including crime, occurring later in life,” Mr Mundy said. “Communities for Children takes an integrated approach to the problems many children and ...

10. Tasmanian U-Turn graduates reward victim of crime
(News/Media Releases Archive)

A group of seven young Tasmanians today graduated from Mission Australia's U-Turn automotive training course, donating a rebuilt Toyota Camry to a Devonport victim of crime. Mission Australia’s State ...

11. Australian-first study shows achievements of ground-breaking early intervention program
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... as part of a crime-reduction strategy but has since grown to become a much larger and detailed program, now delivered in four states, and influenced the Commonwealth Government’s own early intervention ...

12. New program to protect homeless young women from sexual assault, other harm
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... learn coping behaviours that enable them to move forward.” The Equip program is funded by the National Community Crime Prevention Programme, an Australian Government initiative. It will also be conducted ...