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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 ... Thursday, 27 March 2008Pathways to Prevention Project
Category: Download:Social Policy Reports
... problem behaviour in young children, strengthens families and fosters positive child development. Mission Australia and Griffith University are partners in the groundbreaking family early intervention ... Friday, 21 March 2008Enhancing participation: New possibilities for disadvantaged Australians
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... the Australian Catholic University (ACU), Mission Australia and the St Vincent de Paul Society and uses the Arts and Humanities – eg: literature, drama – to build participants’ self-esteem, create a feeling ... Friday, 21 March 2008Experiencing Poverty
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... 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 2008From little things, big things grow - a story from Mission Australia’s Special Needs Dental Service (SNDS)
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... self-esteem. He smiled often, and communicated confidently. By this time, he had completed his Diploma of Welfare and was looking to enrol in a social work degree at university in 2009. He had also been ... Wednesday, 12 November 2008Tackling truancy - is cutting welfare payments an effective method?
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... (Behrendt is professor of law and indigenous studies at Sydney's University of Technology) in which she outlined some of the successful initiatives that have been used to combat truancy in Indigenous communities ... Thursday, 28 August 2008Mission Australia's Michael Project for the homeless launched today
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... will be underpinned by a comprehensive research program in partnership with Murdoch University and the University of NSW for its duration. The research will examine Michael Project outcomes across housing/homelessness, ... Monday, 18 August 2008Young people's mental health - The hidden challenges and how innovation can help
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... and the innovative solutions available at a seminar in Sydney at 12.30pm on Wednesday 13 August 2008... Professor Patrick McGorry, Professor of Youth Mental Health at the University of Melbourne and ... Wednesday, 13 August 2008Making university education accessible to disadvantaged Australians
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A group of disadvantaged Melburnians have graduated from a groundbreaking new university-style program developed by Mission Australia and Australian Catholic University (ACU National). The Catalyst-Clemente ... Tuesday, 05 August 2008Child Counsellor/Group Worker - Brisbane - 38hrs pw
Category: Work For Mission Australia/ Mission Australia Jobs - Queensland
... strive to help individuals and families attain a positive and independent future. The Pathways to Prevention Project is a collaborative initiative of Mission Australia and Griffith University. The aim ... Tuesday, 22 July 2008Migrants and refugees give back to Australia
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... backgrounds (NESB), conflicting with recent research by Monash University suggesting that migrants from NESBs are less likely to volunteer than Australian-born people and migrants from English speaking ... Friday, 09 May 2008Mission Australia launches ground-breaking education program
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... program, sponsored by Woodside, is designed to provide to those who may not normally access university education, enrolment in a course at Edith Cowan University. Mission Australia’s Catalyst Program ... Friday, 18 April 2008Corporate Social Responsibility
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... Investment www.swinburnephilanthropy.net Centre for Sustainable Performance (University of Technology Sydney) www.csp.uts.edu.au International Resources AccountAbility www.accountability.org.uk ... Tuesday, 25 March 2008NSW/ACT Volunteer Opportunities
Category: Volunteer/Volunteer Opportunities
... are invited to apply to be a Learning Partner with Catalyst Clemente Newcastle About Catalyst Clemente: The Catalyst Clemente program is a community based university program which offers humanities ... Tuesday, 18 March 2008VIC Volunteer Opportunities
Category: Volunteer/Volunteer Opportunities
... focus on empowering people and building communities. The Catalyst program is a university program being run at the Mission Australia Centre, with the next session commencing in April. Courses are in ... Tuesday, 18 March 2008Graduate Success - Luke Butcher
Category: Jobs at Mission Australia/Graduate and Work Experience
Luke Butcher - Personal Helpers and Mentors Program and Orange Youth Accommodation Support Service In 2006 I completed a Bachelor of Arts (Psychology) from the University of Newcastle and was accepted ... Tuesday, 18 March 2008Community Services in Western Australia
Category: Community Services/Community Services by State
... people and their families Low cost community food bus Catalyst Program – providing accredited university courses in a community setting. Girrawheen Youth and Family Support Services (GYFSS) Girrawheen ... Tuesday, 18 March 2008Community Services in Queensland
Category: Community Services/Community Services by State
... Australia and Griffith University. Operating as a family support service, Pathways supports families with children aged 4-12 in the Inala and Carole Park areas of Brisbane. The program improves the opportunities ... Tuesday, 18 March 2008Pathways away from homelessness
Category: Community Services/Community Services
... Queensland (Toowoomba) and WA (Mandurah). Catalyst-Clemente Programme The Catalyst-Clemente programme offers a model of university to disadvantaged Australians. The programme uses higher education in ... Tuesday, 18 March 2008Our people
Category: Pathways/About Us
... was appointed a director in 1992. He is Associate Professor and Director, Australian Centre for Security Research, University of Western Sydney. Desmond Robinson, BCom (Hons), FCPA, CA, AAIQ, ... 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 2007Hunter Legal Service assisting the Disadvantaged
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... like the Hunter Community Legal Centre and the University of Newcastle Legal Centre,” he said. “This partnership with Mission Australia highlights what can be achieved when both the corporate world, not-for-profit ... Thursday, 05 July 2007Talented young Indigenous people blaze new trail under IYMP
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... 18, from Berri in South Australia’s Riverland who is studying to be a doctor at the University of Adelaide’s School of Medicine Dallas Osborne, 17, from Cunnamulla, Queensland – a flautist who is ... Tuesday, 22 May 2007University courses for disadvantaged Australians offer a path out of poverty
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... a range of issues, including mental and physical illness, addiction or the risk of homelessness. The Catalyst-Clemente program is a joint initiative between the Australian Catholic University (ACU), ... Wednesday, 04 April 2007Australian-first study shows achievements of ground-breaking early intervention program
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... child development. Mission Australia and Griffith University are partners in the groundbreaking family early intervention program, the Pathways to Prevention Project, and have released the data as part ... Thursday, 07 December 2006