Mission Australia

1. Enhancing participation: New possibilities for disadvantaged Australians
(Document Downloads)

Catalyst-Clemente snapshot. Universities, community organisations and businesses across Australia are being encouraged to become involved in the Catalyst-Clemente program - groundbreaking educational initiative ...

2. Rural and Regional Australia: Change, Challenge and Capacity
(Document Downloads)

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 ...

3. 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 ...

4. Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Information
(Community Services/Community Services)

... be useful to people generally interested in reconciliation or those working for reconciliation in educational institutions, community organisations, faith groups, government or business.2 Australian Human ...

5. Catalyst-Clemente Program
(Community Services/Community Services)

What is the Catalyst Clemente Program? Catalyst Clemente offers free socially supported university education in the humanities delivered in a community setting for people who are experiencing significant ...

6. About Mission Australia
(Pathways/About Us)

... various City Missions, including Sydney City Mission, our founding purpose is to meet human need and to give expression to the love of God. We believe in helping Australians in need get back on their ...

7. Our people
(Pathways/About Us)

... a successful recruitment and HR consulting business. He transitioned into the health care and human services sector rising to Chairman of Bethesda Inc. His current software company manages web-based patient ...

8. Purpose, Vision and Values
(Pathways/About Us)

Click here to view our - Mission Australia Values Statement (53.92 kB) Our founding purpose:   'Inspired by Jesus Christ, Mission Australia exists to meet human need and to spread the knowledge ...

9. Ambassadors
(Pathways/About Us)

... for the cause of poverty and homelessness throughout her Miss World experience and beyond. "The most wonderful thing a human being can do, is to help another, and this is exactly what Miss World's Beauty ...

10. Initiatives
(Jobs at Mission Australia/Mission Australia Jobs)

... the human services industry. We value the contributions and commitment of our staff by formally recognising and rewarding their service and achievements. We employ people who demonstrate: Exceptional ...

11. Graduate Success - Diana Nicholson
(Jobs at Mission Australia/Graduate and Work Experience)

... in Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations I had a strong interest in Human Resources and gaining a position in this area. However, I was also interested in working in the not-for-profit sector ...

12. Internship Program
(Jobs at Mission Australia/Graduate and Work Experience)

... by providing a quality internship program. Who we are looking for: Mission Australia is interested in taking on students in the human services sector who are serious about a career in community services, ...

13. NSW/ACT Volunteer Opportunities
(Volunteer/Volunteer Opportunities)

... inspired by Jesus Christ; we exist to meet human need and to spread the knowledge and love of God.  Nature of the Role: Volunteer in an exciting and interactive environment with Christian City Church ...

14. Making or Changing Your Will
(Donations/Bequests)

... meet human need’ is today well expressed in Mission Australia. As a member of the Benjamin Short Society, you will receive: Invitations to attend special functions, tours and events Presentation ...

15. Our Volunteers
(Volunteer/Volunteers)

... most vulnerable groups in our community. Over the last year Carolina and Iresha organised three workshops for the Integrated Humanitarian Settlement Scheme in Sydney and Newcastle. They provided essential ...

16. Making university education accessible to disadvantaged Australians
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... Leader, Clemente Australia Facts about the Catalyst-Clemente program: Catalyst-Clemente allows disadvantaged people to participate in undergraduate level humanities education. Catalyst-Clemente ...

17. Migrants and refugees give back to Australia
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... countries. Of 509 people volunteering several hours per week at Mission Australia’s Home Tutor and Enhancement Program and the Integrated Humanitarian Settlement Strategy (IHSS)Volunteer Coordination ...

18. New centre with historic heart offers assistance to disadvantaged Tasmanians
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... and will be opened by Tasmania’s Minister for Health and Human Services, Lara Giddings and Mission Australia CEO, Toby Hall today. The new Mission Australia Centre offers: Training facilities as well ...

19. Mission Australia welcomes groundbreaking youth homelessness report
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... call for the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission to conduct an inquiry into the number of young people leaving state care who become homeless is also to be applauded. “The thing to keep in mind ...

20. Experiences of young homeless people make for a surprise
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... views; secondly, it helps ‘humanise’ this group, who are sometimes victims of media and community stereotyping; finally, knowing more about homeless young people helps us better tailor our support services ...

21. Don’t forget homeless in housing affordability debate
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... for Australia to develop a national housing strategy. Mission Australia launched the campaign in the wake of a United Nations Human Rights Council report that declared Australia was in the grip of a ...

22. UN report on Australian housing crisis rings true
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... a report to the United Nations’ Human Rights Council has declared Australia is in the grip of a serious “housing crisis”. The report, the work of the UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing (and which ...

23. University courses for disadvantaged Australians offer a path out of poverty
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... 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 of community engagement and develop ...

24. Combating youth unemployment rates in Tasmania
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... education, employment) which impact on young people, as well as involve the business and community sectors. • COAG’s Human Capital Reform Agenda to give significant attention to the needs of young people, ...

25. New blueprint to tackle causes of Australia’s youth unemployment problem
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... or those who are homeless. “These young people have become a wasted resource, not only in human terms, but also economic – the cost as they pass through our justice, health and income support systems ...