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1. Going Places up for Workplace Innovation Award
(Daily News/Blog)

... for its mentoring component. Going Places is a Queensland Government-funded program that offers housing assistance to single men and women, young people, couples and families in Cairns who are experiencing ...

2. New SA program aims to help youth feel good about their bodies
(Daily News/Blog)

... highest-ever level of concern about body image. “The rise in concern about body image told us the well-meaning efforts by governments and others to combat the problem were failing and needed to be reconsidered,” ...

3. Cautious support for Budget, but more to do
(Daily News/Blog)

Mission Australia has given its cautious support to this year’s Federal Budget but has queried whether the government’s efforts to encourage more Australians into workforce participation are built on an ...

4. Junaa Buwa! Centre for Youth Wellbeing (NSW)
(Community Services/Community Services)

... Buwa!, to ensure they can smoothly move back into the community and into work or study. Junaa Buwa! is funded by the NSW Government’s Attorney General’s Department. It accepts referrals from Juvenile ...

5. Aim’n High (VIC)
(Community Services/Community Services)

... childcare  Government subsidised childcare fees  Family education and support  Personal development and career activities  A team approach that enables mothers to reach educational ...

6. The cost of homelessness
(News/MA Newsletter)

... spent by governments on services such as ambulances, emergency department care, court and police costs had decreased on average by $12,264 per client. Even when taking into account the cost of running ...

7. Insight with Cheryl O’Donnell, Southern NSW Community Services Operations Manager
(News/MA Newsletter)

... discussions with government departments, either on my own or as part of a regional group, to ensure the needs of local people are being met. "The people we help are struggling to find affordable housing. ...

8. MA Housing celebrates first anniversary at its Blacktown base
(Daily News/Blog)

... provider currently manages 291 affordable homes in the local government area and 1,000 homes in total across western Sydney. The 30 permanent staff who are based in Blacktown service housing projects ...

9. Government to establish new Children’s Commissioner role
(Daily News/Blog)

The Gillard Government has announced the creation of a National Children’s Commissioner within the Australian Human Rights Commission. Attorney-General Nicola Roxon said the new commissioner will ...

10. Society will be judged by how it deals with homelessness, researcher says
(Daily News/Blog)

... and talk about it on social media or the old-fashioned way. X_dIa7YNFNw Get involved! This week’s launch is just the start of a year-long Mission Australia campaign to encourage governments across ...

11. Report finds new homeless service model saves money, changes lives
(Daily News/Blog)

... were also far less likely to access health and justice services.  The savings Over a year, the money spent by government on services such as ambulances, emergency department care, court and police ...

12. ‘We've got our son back’: parents praise DAYS in open letter
(Daily News/Blog)

... the help of Mission Australia’s Drug and Alcohol Youth Service (DAYS) service in Perth. DAYS is an integrated service incorporating Next Step (a government alcohol and other drugs youth service) ...

13. MA Housing funded to build accommodation for people with disabilities
(Daily News/Blog)

MA Housing (Victoria) Ltd is among 21 organisations selected to provide community-based accommodation for adults with severe or profound disabilities through the Australian Government’s Supported ...

14. Newly graduated U-Turn crew makes the pages of Top Gear
(Daily News/Blog)

... path. Throughout the Tasmanian Government-funded course, delivered by Mission Australia under contract to the Department of Police and Emergency Management, students learn panel-beating, spray-painting ...

15. Report shows need to work harder to help homeless children and youth
(Daily News/Blog)

... also need state and territory governments to prioritise housing support for homeless families, especially those with preschool and school-aged children who need a stable environment and consistent access ...

16. Snapshot paints depressing picture of impact of homelessness
(Daily News/Blog)

... than those who had never been homeless (three per cent).  Adults who had been homeless were twice as likely to report that their main source of personal income was a government pension or allowance ...

17. ‘DAYS saved my life’ – Rick’s story in The Sunday Times
(Daily News/Blog)

...  "I came in here a young boy and I am leaving a young man," he told The Sunday Times. DAYS is an integrated service incorporating Next Step (a Government Alcohol and Other Drugs youth service). ...

18. New Sydney service helping to keep Aboriginal people housed
(Daily News/Blog)

... in partnership with the NSW Government, CSATSS covers a region stretching from Hornsby to Sutherland, and inland to Strathfield. The launch After a warm Welcome to Country by Shane Phillips, Uncle Max ...

19. Young Aboriginals keener to find work than their non-Aboriginal peers
(Daily News/Blog)

... Herald.  Mission Australia is calling for federal government help to develop an employment program targeted at 15- to 18-year-old Aboriginal youth, many of whom were dropping out of school, failing ...

20. ABC video shows Going Places housing program getting results in Cairns
(Daily News/Blog)

... Government-funded program offers housing assistance to single men and women, young people, couples and families experiencing chronic homelessness. Its “housing-first” approach means the first priority ...

21. Need for boarding house reform back in the news
(Daily News/Blog)

... organisations said without a central registry of rooming house operators, which the Baillieu Government failed to commit to on Tuesday night, any standards would be rendered virtually useless because there ...

22. Giving voice to the voiceless
(Community Services/Community Services)

When the federal government announced a long-overdue funding boost to mental health services last year, no one was more chuffed and relieved than Mission Australia. It wasn’t just that that one in ...

23. Featherweight
(Pathways/About Us)

... by the Australian Government’s Innovation Fund, which is a component of Job Services Australia, Featherweight aims to employ local job seekers who are Aboriginal or have a disability. Trainees at ...

24. Crisis centres unable to meet homeless demand: The Project
(Daily News/Blog)

... of Health and Welfare (AIHW) that showed close to 60 per cent of people who need help from government-funded specialist homeless agencies were turned away. The data showed that of people needing ...

25. Roar and Mission Australia kick off Indigenous jobs program
(Daily News/Blog)

Mission Australia and Brisbane Roar Football Club have officially kicked off an innovative new Indigenous employment program at Ballymore Stadium.  The initiative – funded by the Australian Government ...