Mission Australia

1. Our Response to Commonwealth Gov. Green Paper - Which way home?
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... in the supply of affordable and social housing, combined with flexible support packages tailored to the individual client and their specific needs. We argue for a place based service approach that is ...

2. Our Response to the Commonwealth Gov. Discussion Paper - Increasing Indigenous Economic Opportunity
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... Australia recommends a holistic and integrated framework across all areas of social and economic wellbeing for Indigenous individuals, families and communities. Mission Australia supports innovate responses ...

3. Our Response to Commonwealth Gov. Discussion Paper - National Mental Health & Disability Employment
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Mission Australia welcomes the discussion paper in the context of the Commonwealth’s broader social inclusion agenda, particularly given the strong links between poverty, unemployment, social exclusion ...

4. Working for renewal
(Download:Social Policy Reports)

An evaluation of Mission Australia’s UREEP a social enterprise and transitional labour market program ...

5. Mission Australia Centre
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... support options with a particular focus on indigenous homelessness. This groundbreaking centre is the first of its kind in Australia and provides a bridge to greater social and economic participation. ...

6. Social Policy in the City - May 2008
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7. National Survey of Young Australians 2007
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... and provides some rare insights into what they value and what is of most concern to them. The survey also provides a framework to plan for the future and gives direction to efforts towards greater social ...

8. Crime and Social Isolation: Beyond Moral Panics and Bad Parents
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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 ...

9. Social Policy and Early Intervention - Jenny Chaves
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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 ...

10. Social Policy and Early Intervention - Ilan Katz
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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 ...

11. Caring 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 ...

12. Left out and missing out: Disability and disadvantage.
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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 ...

13. Towards new indicators of Disadvantage: Deprivation and social exclusion in Australia
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... has been carried out jointly by the Social Policy Research Centre and a number of community services organisations including Mission Australia.  ...

14. The Towards New Indicators of Disadvantage Project
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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 ...

15. Experiencing Poverty: The Voices of Low-Income Australians
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... for Australia in the new millennium. The research is drawing on the concepts of deprivation and social exclusion to develop indicators that can form the basis of a new approach to the conceptualisation, ...

16. Rural and Regional Australia: Change, Challenge and Capacity
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This is a complex paper that examines non-metropolitan disadvantage in the framework of five key areas: economic capital; institutional capital; social capital; human capital; and natural capital. The ...

17. Experiencing Poverty
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... benefits of Australia’s growing economic prosperity. The study, funded by the Australian Research Council, was conducted by a consortium of leading social researchers and welfare agency practitioners ...

18. Group Leader - Mission Australia Early Learning Services
(Work For Mission Australia/ Mission Australia Jobs - Victoria)

... learning potential, recognises and supports their unique social, emotional and physical needs. Your previous experience working with children, as well as your passion for children, willingness to learn ...

19. Enterprise Development Manager
(Work For Mission Australia/ Mission Australia Jobs - Queensland)

2 year fixed term contract, with possibility for extension Ground breaking new project Opportunity to apply business skills for social impact Mission Australia is a leading not-for-profit community ...

20. Enterprise Development Manager
(Work For Mission Australia/ Mission Australia Jobs - Northern Territory)

2 year fixed term contract, with possibility for extension Ground breaking new project Opportunity to apply business skills for social impact Mission Australia is a leading not-for-profit community ...

21. Enterprise Development Manager
(Work For Mission Australia/ Mission Australia Jobs - Victoria)

2 year fixed term contract, with possibility for extension Ground breaking new project Opportunity to apply business skills for social impact Mission Australia is a leading not-for-profit community ...

22. A fresh approach in the mission to enable refugee and migrants to gain sustainable employment
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... a job. Post-program support is provided for up to three months to ensure the impact of social issues is minimised and employment outcomes are met. Mr Bird said that this support was important as in some ...

23. Mission Australia Job Capacity Assessments
(Employment Services/Providers)

... barriers such as psychological/psychiatric conditions, physical limitations and chronic pain; socio-cultural barriers such as relationships/family breakdown and social isolation; personal barriers including ...

24. Mission Australia Job Capacity Account Services
(Employment Services/Providers)

... work. Short-term interventions usually last no longer than 13 weeks, and cover the following areas: Physical Support Social Support Psychological Support Pain Management Work ...

25. Australia's approach to Juvenile Justice must change
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... people involved in Mission Australia’s diversionary programs generally conform to the typical profile of adolescents who engage in anti-social behaviour. “Many have a history of damaging levels of alcohol ...