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... financial services training, as well as applying his interest in the disability services sector. He says he loves his work, is gaining confidence, and feels he is overcoming his anxieties. Ms Ellis said ...
Monday, 12 December 2011
2. Service excellence
(Pathways/About Us)
... Australia Australian Apprenticeships  Disability Management Services  The ACCES Program  New Enterprise Incentive Scheme  Job Capacity Assessments  Indigenous Employment Programs  Offender ...
Monday, 21 November 2011
3. Lead experts
(Pathways/About Us)
... for sector reform. Mission Australia also pushed for welfare reform, particularly better support for people on the Disability Support Pension to join the workforce. And we helped shape reforms to the ...
Monday, 21 November 2011
... early symptoms of mental illness. This week Disability Services Minister Curtis Pitt announced that Mission Australia will receive $720,000 through the Resolve initiative. “We know that social housing ...
Friday, 18 November 2011
... National Disability Services to see that is the case. “That’s why Mission Australia has supported the ACOSS campaign calling on Federal and State/Territory Governments to commit to fully funding any ...
Thursday, 10 November 2011
... on Tuesday at an on-site ceremony. Among the guests at yesterday’s launch were representatives from the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR), Disability Employment Services, ...
Wednesday, 09 November 2011
... Community Preschool’s Service Manager, Sheryl Amann, who cut a mini-Rossmore cake made by a preschooler’s parent (pictured). The renovations include a new playground area and playroom, a new disability ...
Friday, 04 November 2011
... to get around the system, either by working under the table to augment their meagre allowance or by seeking to move across to the Disability Support Pension which offers a significantly higher payment ...
Thursday, 20 October 2011
... and support to family members and friends who have a disability, mental illness, chronic condition, terminal illness or who are frail aged. There are currently over 2.6 million unpaid family carers in ...
Tuesday, 18 October 2011
... Island, SA. He has worked as a shearer, stockman and a tradesman in welding and engineering. Arthritis and a heart attack, however, forced him to leave the workforce and go on a disability pension. “Unaffordable ...
Thursday, 04 August 2011
... he was fired. Without family support, Ernie was out on the streets - unemployed, homeless and broke. To make things even more difficult, Ernie has a physical disability and can’t get around without crutches. ...
Tuesday, 12 July 2011
... Fund program for Mission Australia’s Feather Weight project. This project will train and employ up to 11 job seekers with disability in recycling services, giving them the supportthey need to achieve ...
Thursday, 30 June 2011
... because of cultural and language differences, poverty, unemployment, dislocation, violence, illness or disability and this can impact on their child’s transition to school. “For families with complex ...
Tuesday, 14 June 2011
14. Mental pain catches bad backs
(News/Media Releases Archive)
Media coverage - The Australian, 7 June 2011 Mental illness is set to overtake "bad backs" as the most common reason for receiving the disability support pension, and welfare and employment services groups ...
Tuesday, 07 June 2011
... by the Council to Homeless Persons, Homelessness Australia, Mission Australia, Psychiatric Disability Services of Victoria and Yfoundations. The report confirms little is known about rates of homelessness ...
Tuesday, 07 June 2011
16. Community Connections (NSW South East)
(Community Services/Community Services)
... including, but not limited to, alcohol and other drugs, mental health including self-harm, intellectual or cognitive disability and challenging behaviour. If you or someone you know in the south-east ...
Monday, 23 May 2011
17. MA welcomes budget focus on disadvantaged areas
(News/Media Releases Archive)
... think it strikes the right balance between incentives and increased resources for jobseekers and Disability Support Pension (DSP) recipients who have a reasonable capacity to work with measures that emphasise ...
Wednesday, 11 May 2011
18. System fails jobless on disability support
(News/Media Releases Archive)
... need to offer disability support pension recipients who do have some capacity to work intensive assistance and incentives to encourage them back intothe workforce. After all, he argues, a welfare system ...
Tuesday, 10 May 2011
... The new centre offers a variety of community programs including Family Support, Disability Support, Language, Literacy and Numeracy Programs, Integrated Family Support Services, Gateway Services and Local ...
Thursday, 05 May 2011
... develop a career path in positions like nursing, aged and disability care work, residential support work or in the childcare industry. “We provide four weeks of pre-employment training, which includes ...
Friday, 29 April 2011
... penalties over incentives. Eleven years on, we’re still wrestling with the same old issues. Too many jobless families, too many people on disability support, too many long-term unemployed people wasting ...
Friday, 01 April 2011
22. Inequality is growing in Australia: ACOSS
(News/Media Releases Archive)
... being turned away from services is increasing, especially in the areas of disability, housing and homelessness, and youth welfare services. But the largest increase is in area of financial support and/or ...
Sunday, 27 March 2011
...  You can also find out more about our Family and Carer Mental Health Program here, including contacts in northern NSW. * ABS (2009) Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers. ...
Wednesday, 23 March 2011
24. National Survey of Young Australians
(Research/Research and Social Policy)
... Islander identification, location, languages spoken at home, if the participant had a disability, education and employment as well as living arrangements. This year we adjusted a question to link sources ...
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
... – QLD Diabetes Australia - VIC Disability, Sport and Recreation Down Syndrome NSW Down Syndrome Society of SA Earthwatch Institute Australia Epilepsy Foundation of Victoria Fred Hollows Foundation ...
Sunday, 20 March 2011
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