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Social Policy in the City - May 2008
Category: Download:Social Policy Seminars
Thursday, 12 June 2008Social Policy and Early Intervention - Jenny Chaves
Category: Download:Social Policy Seminars
This seminar is presented by Professor Ilan Katz, Acting Director of the Social Policy Research Centre, and Jenny Chaves, Services Manager for Mission Australia’s Communities for Children Initiative in ... Thursday, 27 March 2008Social Policy and Early Intervention - Ilan Katz
Category: Download:Social Policy Seminars
This seminar is presented by Professor Ilan Katz, Acting Director of the Social Policy Research Centre, and Jenny Chaves, Services Manager for Mission Australia’s Communities for Children Initiative in ... Thursday, 27 March 2008Caring in the 21st Century: Costs, Opportunities and Custody
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Bettina Cass (Social Policy Research Centre) and Gabrielle Upton (Deputy Chair of the Taskforce on Care Costs) Caring in the 21st century is one of the most significant contemporary challenges facing ... Thursday, 27 March 2008Addressing Indigenous Disadvantage - Ruth McCausland
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Nicholas Biddle and Jon Altman, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) and Ruth McCausland, Jumbunna’s Research Unit. ... Thursday, 27 March 2008Addressing Indigenous Disadvantage - Nicholas Biddle
Category: Download:Social Policy Seminars
Nicholas Biddle and Jon Altman, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) and Ruth McCausland, Jumbunna’s Research Unit. ... Thursday, 27 March 2008Left out and missing out: Disability and disadvantage.
Category: Download:Social Policy Reports
Recent research by the Social Policy Research Centre, Anglicare, Mission Australia and others has found that where there is someone in a household with a disability, poverty rates are higher and hardship ... Friday, 21 March 2008Towards new indicators of Disadvantage: Deprivation and social exclusion in Australia
Category: Download:Social Policy Reports
... has been carried out jointly by the Social Policy Research Centre and a number of community services organisations including Mission Australia. ... Friday, 21 March 2008The Towards New Indicators of Disadvantage Project
Category: Download:Social Policy Reports
Bulletin No.1 - Identifying the Essentials of Life By Peter Saunders. This project is a collaboration between researchers at the Social Policy Research Centre (SPRC) and analysts from the Australian ... Friday, 21 March 2008Experiencing Poverty
Category: Download:Miscellaneous Documents
... at the University of New South Wales’ Social Policy Research Centre (SPRC), ACOSS, Mission Australia, the Brotherhood of St Laurence and Anglicare Sydney. Focus groups were conducted with users of welfare ... Tuesday, 18 March 2008Case Manager - Personal Support Programme - Eastwood
Category: Work For Mission Australia/ Mission Australia Jobs - New South Wales
... a high emphasis of meeting the needs of the service policy and procedures including financial and compliance objectives. If you are seeking to enjoy the rewards of a valued team, the opportunity to create ... Friday, 03 October 2008Community Services Worker - Newtown
Category: Work For Mission Australia/ Mission Australia Jobs - New South Wales
... building trusting relationships and rapport with homeless people. You attend to homeless, intoxicated, and/or drug affected people, who are referred to the centre. In line with the MA Rawson Centre Policy ... Thursday, 25 September 2008National Indigenous Advisor - Sydney CBD location
Category: Work For Mission Australia/ Mission Australia Jobs - New South Wales
... external stake holders. You will contribute to policy development and strategy including our new Reconciliation Action Plan. You will be a leader in Indigenous circles and have gained your excellent ... Thursday, 18 September 2008Senior Research and Projects Officer - Sydney or Melbourne location
Category: Work For Mission Australia/ Mission Australia Jobs - Victoria
... to the development and implementation of groundbreaking research and program initiatives involving a range of key stakeholders. You will be responsible for producing high quality research and policy ... Monday, 15 September 2008Senior Research and Projects Officer - Sydney or Melbourne location
Category: Work For Mission Australia/ Mission Australia Jobs - New South Wales
... to the development and implementation of groundbreaking research and program initiatives involving a range of key stakeholders. You will be responsible for producing high quality research and policy ... Monday, 15 September 2008Tackling truancy - is cutting welfare payments an effective method?
Category: News/Media Releases Archive
... to award to pupils who showed the biggest attitudinal and academic change. Or in Ngukurr in the Northern Territory, where that community’s highly successful ‘no school, no swimming pool’ policy has been ... Thursday, 28 August 2008Mission Australia's Michael Project for the homeless launched today
Category: News/Media Releases Archive
... We’re confident that the Michael Project will provide clear information to governments and policy-makers about how extra health, education and social supports can deliver better outcomes to homeless people ... Monday, 18 August 2008Young people's mental health - The hidden challenges and how innovation can help
Category: News/Media Releases Archive
Social Policy in the City Seminar - Wednesday 13 August 2008 Two of the country’s foremost authorities on young people’s mental health will discuss the hidden public health challenges facing young Australians ... Wednesday, 13 August 2008Homelessness among the elderly - The hidden face of Homelessness in Australia
Category: News/Media Releases Archive
... to get on top of this problem we need to start by providing older homeless people with a variety of housing and support options that address their individual needs. “We need more policy initiatives along ... Monday, 04 August 2008Young Australians wanted for national survey
Category: News/Media Releases Archive
... Social Policy, Anne Hampshire, said it gave young Australians a voice across a range of issues with the information being used to help community groups and governments plan and develop youth services. ... Monday, 16 June 2008Macquarie Group Foundation
Category: Partnerships/Our Corporate Partners
... its fourth year with a strong continued commitment to funding the Research and Social Policy unit, enabling Mission Australia to identify existing and emerging social trends and develop effective programs ... Wednesday, 26 March 2008Research and Social Policy
Category: Research/Research and Social Policy
Mission Australia regularly publishes snapshots, policy submissions and major reports on key social issues, including: families and children, homelessness, youth, social inclusion, poverty, employment, ... Wednesday, 19 March 2008Indigenous problem gamblers need greater support
Category: News/Media Releases Archive
... encourages those responsible for gambling policy in NSW and elsewhere to engage Indigenous organisations more closely in developing programs to help problem gamblers. “Gambling is a serious problem among ... Friday, 14 March 2008New poverty research shows Australians missing out
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... Policy Research Centre at the University of New South Wales in partnership with Mission Australia, Anglicare (Sydney) and the Brotherhood of St Laurence; as well as the Australian Council of Social Service ... Monday, 15 October 2007Australia needs national uniformity on early childhood education and support
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... in others. Mission Australia’s CEO, Toby Hall, said Australian early childhood policy was “crying out” for a nationally consistent and holistic strategy that rolled out universal education, intervention ... Thursday, 27 September 2007