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Pathways to Prevention - Inala
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... supports families with children aged 4-12 in the Inala and Carole Park areas of Brisbane. The program improves the opportunities of children by developing their social, communication and behavioural skills ... Wednesday, 23 July 2008Mission 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. ... Wednesday, 23 July 2008Mission Australia response to Commonwealth Government Green Paper - Which way home?
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... national consistency while allowing for local strategies targeted to local needs. Mission Australia argues for a significant increase in the supply of affordable and social housing, combined with flexible ... Wednesday, 02 July 2008Social Policy in the City - May 2008
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Thursday, 12 June 2008National 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 ... Saturday, 29 March 2008Crime 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 ... Thursday, 27 March 2008Social 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 ... Thursday, 27 March 2008Social 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 ... 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 2008Employment FAQ
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... that stimulate your child’s development so they learn language skills, physical skills, social and emotional skills and thinking skills. ... Friday, 21 March 2008Child Care Information
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... that stimulate your child’s development so they learn language skills, physical skills, social and emotional skills and thinking skills. ... Friday, 21 March 2008Left 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 ... Friday, 21 March 2008Towards 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. ... Friday, 21 March 2008The 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 ... Friday, 21 March 2008Experiencing 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, ... Friday, 21 March 2008Rural 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 ... Friday, 21 March 2008Experiencing 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 ... Tuesday, 18 March 2008Community Service Workers x 2 - Inner City Homelessness Outreach and Support Service
Category: Work For Mission Australia/ Mission Australia Jobs - New South Wales
... Community Service Worker (until end January 2008 with possible extension) To be successful in this role you will require: A qualification in Social Welfare or Community Services related field ... Wednesday, 27 August 2008Job Capacity Assessor - Part Time
Category: Work For Mission Australia/ Mission Australia Jobs - New South Wales
... (disability/medical) and any interventions suitable to help overcome them. People with qualifications in Social Work, Psychology, Occupational Therapy, Mental Health Nurses or other suitable allied health ... Tuesday, 26 August 2008Youth Outreach Worker - Youth Beat - Katherine
Category: Work For Mission Australia/ Mission Australia Jobs - Northern Territory
... to build young people’s social, emotional, educative and recreational development. This is a casual position under the Mission Australia Community Services Certified Agreement. Successful applicants ... Tuesday, 26 August 2008Mission Australia's Michael Project for the homeless launched today
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... and clean for yourself and to look after your health. To do that successfully, homeless people need help across a range of areas – health, educational and social services – in addition to finding a safe ... Monday, 18 August 2008Young people's mental health - The hidden challenges and how innovation can help
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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 20085th Birthday for Volt Youth Enterprise Centre
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... welcomed here have moved on feeling better about themselves and their social and work prospects, and with improved opportunities to obtain work and relate successfully with others in their lives,” Ms Sellen ... Tuesday, 12 August 2008Homeless men take up the City2Surf Challenge
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... sporting, cultural and social opportunities is an important part of getting them back on their feet. “The support we’ve been getting has been fantastic. New Balance donated running shoes for all the guys ... Friday, 08 August 2008Making university education accessible to disadvantaged Australians
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... is modelled on a successful initiative in the USA and is based on the belief that poverty is more than just exclusion from material goods – it’s also about social exclusion. Catalyst-Clemente program ... Tuesday, 05 August 2008