Mission Australia

1. The changing taste of welfare services - The evolution of Cafe One
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... today through Café One in Wickham St, Fortitude Valley. Engaging with disadvantaged people over food is vital for reasons of food security and social inclusion. People on the fringes of society benefit ...

2. Social Policy Reports
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Mission Australia regularly publishes snapshots, advocacy papers and major reports on key social issues, including: families and children, homelessness, youth, social inclusion, poverty, employment, and ...

3. Social Policy Seminars
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Every year we present a regular series of seminars on topics of common interest. These seminars, held in Sydney, are open to the public and are free of charge.

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

5. Media Release - Minister for Housing, David Borger
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One of the most innovative social housing projects in Australia is now a step closer to reality. The Minister for Housing, David Borger, today announced a Development Application for the Camperdown integrated ... ...

6. 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 at ...

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. 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 aboriginal individuals, families and communities.  ...

9. Our Response to Commonwealth Gov Green Paper - Which way home
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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 ...

10. 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 ...

11. 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. ...

12. Enhancing participation: New possibilities for disadvantaged Australians
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Catalyst-Clemente snapshot. Universities, community organisations and businesses across Australia are being encouraged to become involved in the Catalyst-Clemente program - groundbreaking educational initiative ...

13. Strange Bedfellows - Integrated Clinical & Non Clinical Programs at a Residential Treatment Program
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This paper aims to present Triple Care Farm’s (TCF) integrated treatment model and explore the model’s effectiveness as an integrated treatment program for young people with complex AOD and MH needs, evidenced ...

14. 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, ...

15. The Families on the Fringe report - Summary Snapshot
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The Families on the Fringe report was a co-operative research project between The University of Queensland, Mission Australia, and The Benevolent Society – and funded by the Australian Research Council. ...

16. Grandparents raising their grandchildren
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There is a sizeable and growing number of grandparents across Australia who are raising their grandchildren with the parent/s either temporarily or permanently unable to provide parental care. Whilst recognising ...

17. In Their Own Words
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In 2007 Mission Australia conducted its sixth annual survey of young Australians. The survey is for those aged 11 to 24 years and explores what young people value, what concerns them, where they turn for ...

18. Young people and the criminal justice system: New insights and promising responses
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This publication features new research about young offenders undertaken by Jioji Ravulo from MA’s youth services in western Sydney. It confirms that much better outcomes for Juvenile Justice are achieved ...

19. 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 ...

20. Left out and missing out: Voices from the margins
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Around one in seven Australians who turn to welfare organisations for help lack a substantial meal at least once a day accoridng to new research released in Anti-Poverty Week (14-20 October)

21. 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 ...

22. 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 Council ...

23. Homeless Young Australians
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The reasons young people leave home are complex and include family conflict, physical and/or sexual abuse, substance abuse and trauma. This has been described as young people ‘running from’ family or personal ...

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

25. The experiences of young people: How do their living arrangements impact
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This publication explores the experiences of young people who are homeless or in foster care. Results draw from the National survey of young Australians 2008. In 2008 Mission Australia conducted its seventh ...