Mission Australia

1. Our Response to the Commonwealth Gov Discussion Paper - Increasing Indigenous Economic Opportunity
(Document Downloads)

Mission Australia strongly supports the Commonwealth Government’s major focus on the wellbeing of aboriginal Australians. To impact upon aboriginal economic participation positively and sustainably, Mission ...

2. Our Response to Commonwealth Gov Green Paper - Which way home
(Document Downloads)

Mission Australias aspiration is to have appropriate housing and support for everybody in our community by 2020. A national plan Linking Support and Housing to End Homelessness will get us there. It will ...

3. Our Response to House of Representatives Standing Committee on Education and Training Inquiry
(Document Downloads)

Mission Australia welcomes the Inquiry into successful youth transitions. Any efforts to enhance the successful transition of disadvantaged young people need to include integrated and holistic responses ...

4. Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Information
(Community Services/Community Services)

...  the most disadvantaged groups in our society. Mission Australia is dedicated to providing assistance to increase their opportunities and quality of life. Working closely with local communities – ...

5. Personal Helpers and Mentors Program
(Community Services/Community Services)

... to provide increased opportunities for recovery for people who have a severe functional limitation resulting from mental illness. Mission Australia operates five Personal Helpers and Mentors services. ...

6. State and Territory governments must set targets to reduce numbers of young people in detention
(News/Media Releases Archive)

One of Australia's leading providers of services to disadvantaged young people has called on state and territory governments to set targets to reduce the number of juveniles in custody and increase alternative ...

7. We must act now to save a lost generation
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... for teenagers was 16.2%1. This is a sharp increase on the same period in 2008 and nearly three times higher than the unemployment rate across the whole population1. It’s especially worrying that the rise ...

8. New report shows groundbreaking homeless service is a success
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... the MAC there was a 10% decline in people returning to the streets and a 6% increase in those living in a house or flat. Studies show that of men leaving traditional crisis accommodation, around 18% simply ...

9. Missionbeat: a Sydney icon turns 30
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... we’re out of a job – but it’s a big ask. “The number of homeless people sleeping rough in Sydney is actually on the rise. The City of Sydney’s most recent count found numbers had increased almost 13 ...

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 the Northern Territory
(Community Services/Community Services by State)

... Imanpa, Mutitjulu and Docker River / Kaltukatjara) in the Southern region of the Northern Territory. The program aims to: Increase the confidence, self reliance, leadership skills and life skills of ...

12. Community Services in Victoria
(Community Services/Community Services by State)

... families and parents, improve early learning and care, support the development of child friendly communities and increase the effectiveness of family and children’s services working as a system within ...

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

... and alternative education programs such as drama, music and writing skills. SWYPE aims to increase young people’s self esteem, to help motivate them towards further training, education or to employment. ...

14. NT Volunteer Opportunities
(Volunteer/Volunteer Opportunities)

... behaviour that will impact on their functioning with mainstream society, increase young people’s capacity for social inclusion, self reliance and self-sufficiency, strengthen family links where possible ...

15. Corporate Volunteering Opportunities
(Volunteer/Volunteer Opportunities)

... lives, attention to improving their surroundings also helps to increase their self worth, self esteem and dignity. The overall objective of this volunteering is to bring the Christmas spirit to the clients ...

16. Mission Australia launches Reconciliation Action Plan
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... will increase its aboriginal employees by 50 in three years. Service managers will report each year on progress including: consultation with local aboriginal groups, initiatives to improve service-accessibility ...

17. Mission Australia to build $16M Aged Homeless Service as number of elderly homeless climbs
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... the release today of an Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report, Counting the Homeless, showing that the number of homeless people aged 55 and over increased by more than 30 percent nationally ...

18. Concern at growing numbers of homeless people turned away
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... at shelters funded under the joint Federal-State Supported Accommodation Assistance Program (SAAP) were unsuccessful... Mission Australia’s Chief Executive, Toby Hall, said while numbers had increased ...

19. Playschool star entertains Mt Druitt kids at Communities for Children’s parenting expo
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... Blacktown (Mt Druitt) Service Manager, Angela Power, said prior to the event that it would help increase parents’ awareness of local services and activities, as well as help promote the importance of the ...

20. The big issues facing our kids
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... - it's drugs that are increasingly weighing on their minds. Concern about drugs was not a top-three issue in 2007. The increase in worry was most notable among the 11-to-14 age group, who were twice as ...

21. Mission Australia welcomes Homelessness Revolution
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... of the overall population hasn’t changed. And among some groups – such as people sleeping rough on the street and homeless families – numbers have actually increased. This is shameful – any level of homelessness ...

22. The welfare experiment - an opinion piece from Mission Australia's CEO, Toby Hall
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... year, an increase of 45 per cent over the previous five years – then we need to think more deeply. While acknowledging the need for urgent action to protect our kids, we also need to recognise that helping ...

23. Drugs a growing concern for young Australians
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... at 25.9 per cent. However, concern about drugs – which was not a top three issue in 2007 – has risen from one-in-five respondents last year to one-in-four in 2008. The increase in concern about drugs ...

24. Training investment will boost employment
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... when unemployment is likely to rise. Mission Australia CEO Toby Hall said that Productivity Places Programme (PPP) had been highly subscribed and the increased funding offered an opportunity for the long ...

25. Latest homeless figures reflect 'wasted years of inaction'
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... night in 2006 – compared to 99,900 in 2001 – an increase of just under 5 per cent... When the 6 per cent growth in Australia’s general population during this period is taken into account, homeless ...