Mission Australia

1. Our Response to Commonwealth Gov Green Paper - Which way home
(Document Downloads)

Mission Australias aspiration is to have appropriate housing and support for everybody in our community by 2020. A national plan Linking Support and Housing to End Homelessness will get us there. It will ...

2. Strange Bedfellows - Integrated Clinical & Non Clinical Programs at a Residential Treatment Program
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This paper aims to present Triple Care Farm’s (TCF) integrated treatment model and explore the model’s effectiveness as an integrated treatment program for young people with complex AOD and MH needs, evidenced ...

3. An icon for exit: The Mission Australia Centre 2005-2008
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This publication outlines the creation, operation and initial outcomes of the Mission Australia Centre (MAC), a new model of crisis accommodation and support for homeless men located in inner Sydney. Driven ...

4. Sales Representative - 6mth Maternity Leave Cover - South West Sydney
(Work For Mission Australia/ Mission Australia Jobs - New South Wales)

Fairfield, Cabramatta and Miller territory Transform the lives of others! Do you want to join an extremely high performing team, in a specialised area? Our employment services delivery model ...

5. Workplace Giving
(Partnerships/Corporate Partnerships)

“Payroll giving is a winner for employees, a winner for employers and a winner for charities. It is the best model of making a donation to charities in Australia which we’d like to see embraced throughout ...

6. New report shows groundbreaking homeless service is a success
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... CEO, Toby Hall, said the MAC's results provided governments and other agencies with a successful model for developing future homeless services. "When we built the MAC in 2005 we based our plans on our ...

7. Feds should play role in urban planning to improve housing affordability
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... Cities’ initiative of the Keating Government as a model of what can be done in this area. “While the program had its limitations it also produced some highly successful affordable housing developments ...

8. Pathways away from homelessness
(Community Services/Community Services)

... Downs ), 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 ...

9. Graduate Success - Luke Butcher
(Jobs at Mission Australia/Graduate and Work Experience)

... into the Mission Australia Graduate Program. My time in the graduate program was fruitful, allowing me to practice the theoretical models of mental health that I had learnt through University. I was ...

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

... for a diverse volunteering position assisting youth who are at risk of leaving school early? Mission Australia has challenging volunteer opportunities for people who would like to be a positive role model ...

11. QLD Volunteer Opportunities
(Volunteer/Volunteer Opportunities)

... Youth Homelessness Program in Logan (Brisbane) is urgently seeking applications for volunteer Drivers. Nightspot is an emergency accommodation model that allows low-risk, vulnerable youth to stay in the ...

12. TAS Volunteer Opportunities
(Volunteer/Volunteer Opportunities)

... in volunteering your time with this group, you will need to be sensitive to the client needs. Our clients are particularly in need of positive role models. Our clients attend a 10 week course, however ...

13. NT Volunteer Opportunities
(Volunteer/Volunteer Opportunities)

... and other assortment of spare parts including the tools to get the bikes up and running. This workshop will be modelled along the lines of an extremely successful workshop called Deadly Treadly and Bike ...

14. Corporate Volunteering Opportunities
(Volunteer/Volunteer Opportunities)

... on the potential to provide services in the industry. Following the completion of the feasibility a detailed business model and costing would be completed to guide the establishment. As a mentor you ...

15. Mission Australia launches Reconciliation Action Plan
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... Mr O'Callaghan. “As a result, the RAP represents a framework for understanding a client group better so programs can be delivered more effectively. “It provides a valuable model for other organisations ...

16. Mission Australia Early Learning opens its doors to the Illawarra
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... of children and their families through early childhood support based on our internationally recognised Pathways model. We’ll be drawing on all of that experience and knowledge in our Illawarra centres. ...

17. The welfare experiment - an opinion piece from Mission Australia's CEO, Toby Hall
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... the model being rolled out across the country. These initiatives represent quite a sea-change in the way authorities think about the management of income support.  For those of us on the front line ...

18. U-Turn graduates donate restored car
(News/Media Releases Archive)

A group of young Tasmanians today graduated from Mission Australia's U-Turn automotive training course following the rebuilding and restoration of a 93 Model Hyundai. Mission Australia’s Community Services ...

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

... is modelled on a successful initiative in the USA and is based on the belief that poverty is more than just exclusion from material goods – it’s also about social exclusion. Catalyst-Clemente program ...

20. Green paper on homelessness is a positive step
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... said. “We need to invest in high quality prevention models to stop people becoming homeless, we need to invest in short-term crisis accommodation that moves people out of homeless for ever. We need to ...

21. Flexible Job Network will help disadvantaged job seekers
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... and real training to skill job seekers for the current employment market. “We have wanted to see the program move to a model similar to Mission Australia’s social enterprise program, Urban Renewal Employment ...

22. Mission Australia launches ground-breaking education program
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... program in Sydney in 2005. The program is based on the successful Clemente program model in the USA and operates worldwide. Ms Oakley said the course delivered accredited university courses in a community ...

23. Adelaide's heatwave hits the homeless
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... issues of the heatwave, and keep plenty of water and sunscreen on hand to give out as the need arises.” However, longer term solutions – such as prevention, improved crisis accommodation models and access ...

24. Australia needs national uniformity on early childhood education and support
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... across states and territories. Mission Australia says a lack of consistent services, curriculum and delivery models meant children in some parts of the country were receiving a better start than kids ...

25. Learning the ropes on trip of a lifetime
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... said it will be an amazing experience for a future community leader like Sam. “He’s a great role model,” Mr Rickets said. “Not just through sport, although the other kids obviously look up to him for ...