Mission Australia

1. Strange Bedfellows - Integrated Clinical & Non Clinical Programs at a Residential Treatment Program
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... by standardised outcomes measures.TCF is a residential rehabilitation program, specialising in integrated treatment for clients aged 16 to 24 years with mental health and alcohol and other drug issues. ...

2. Concern at growing numbers of homeless people turned away
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... and preventing youth homelessness – measures that don’t just address accommodation capacity but also cut the flow of people into homelessness and try and get them on their feet more quickly once they’re ...

3. Mission Australia: tragedy if housing element of stimulus package not passed
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... affordable and social housing – and the measures contained in the economic stimulus package do just that. “Through this investment we stand a really strong chance of meeting the government’s goal of halving ...

4. The welfare experiment - an opinion piece from Mission Australia's CEO, Toby Hall
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... to 1000 families in 2008-2009. Another change is that the income quarantining measures that were part of the Northern Territory intervention were targeted at Indigenous families – a point of much contention ...

5. Tackling truancy - is cutting welfare payments an effective method?
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... punitive measures to keep kids in school, why not provide incentives and a positive approach to do the same? There was an interesting opinion piece in The Age newspaper recently by Larissa Behrendt ...

6. Mission Australia welcomes groundbreaking youth homelessness report
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Mission Australia has welcomed the National Youth Commission’s report into youth homelessness and supported its call for establishing a National Homelessness Strategy along with a range of other measures ...

7. Help for workers in Gippsland's drought affected areas
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... Member for Gippsland Peter McGauran said the Drought Force program was an example of the practical measures the Government had taken to help farming communities through the devastating drought. “The ...

8. Budget looks to the future with mental health and superannuation measures
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Budget looks to the future with mental health and superannuation measures Mission Australia says that the Federal Government’s investment in the areas of health and superannuation will have a positive ...