Mission Australia

1. Workplace Giving Program - Sign-up Form
(Document Downloads)

To complete this form online: click download and save the file to your desktop; open the file in Adobe Reader and fill-out all applicable fields; save the file to your desktop; attach document to an email ...

2. 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 ...

3. Our Submission on Remote and Regional Communities
(Document Downloads)

Addressing the significant and entrenched nature of disadvantage within some regional and remote aboriginal communities requires a multi-layered, long term, community development approach. Such an approach ...

4. Experiencing Poverty: The Voices of Low-Income Australians
(Document Downloads)

Towards New Indicators of Disadvantage Project Stage I: Focus Group Outcomes The research reported in this publication forms the first stage of a project designed to develop new indicators of disadvantage ...

5. Caring in the 21st Century: Costs, Opportunities and Custody
(Document Downloads)

Bettina Cass (Social Policy Research Centre) and Gabrielle Upton (Deputy Chair of the Taskforce on Care Costs) Caring in the 21st century is one of the most significant contemporary challenges facing individuals, ...

6. Community Service Workers - Casual Positions
(Work For Mission Australia/ Mission Australia Jobs - New South Wales)

... potential of gaining significant insight to issues surrounding women in crisis, mental health, alcohol and drugs or disabilities and is suited to a person seeking to enhance their assessment and social ...

7. Drug and Alcohol Youth Service (DAYS) Withdrawal and Respite
(Community Services/Community Services)

... flower essences, aromatherapy, art therapy, and drama therapy. Importantly the service also encourages family interaction by actively involving and engaging families and significant others through support, ...

8. Brighter Futures (NSW)
(Community Services/Community Services)

Brighter Futures is a voluntary, targeted program designed for families encountering problems that impact on their ability to care for their children. The program provides families with the necessary ...

9. 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 ...

10. How we acquire talent and give you every opportunity to ensure our organisation is the perfect fit for you!
(Jobs at Mission Australia/Mission Australia Jobs)

...  4.    Assessments For some roles, you may be asked to undertake an assessment. Most of our assessments are on-line and they are designed to provide us with additional information about you. 5.   ...

11. State and Territory governments must set targets to reduce numbers of young people in detention
(News/Media Releases Archive)

...  eg: family stress, poor literacy/numeracy, lack of skills, unemployment and substance abuse. Such programs are not only more successful but significantly cheaper to run. “There’s a real lack of ...

12. National Skilled Volunteer Opportunities
(Volunteer/Volunteer Opportunities)

... operational needs. Mission Australia will provide support from local and national staff and service managers to complete the project. The project will add significant value, reduce risk and improve ...

13. Volunteering is a life-changing experience
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... the early childhood literacy program, established new creative learning activities and held workshops in screen printing and design. She even started up her own photography workshop that became so popular ...

14. We must act now to save a lost generation
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... be showing signs of emerging from the effects of the global financial crisis, but for one group of Australians, those like Marcus aged 15 to 24, the challenges continue to grow. With youth unemployment ...

15. Last minute Christmas gift ideas from Mission Australia!
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... doing it tough. The virtual Christmas Tree – Australia’s first 'virtual charity tree' is now online at the charity’s website. The interactive design allows visitors to choose from a range of Christmas ...

16. Workplace Giving
(Partnerships/Corporate Partnerships)

... to disadvantaged Australians. Sign up now to become a Workplace Giving partner with Mission Australia - [rokdownload menuitem="214" downloaditem="132" direct_download="false"]click here[/rokdownload]. ...

17. Drugs, suicide and body image - the issues of most concern to young Australians
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... don’t feel equipped to deal with the issue of drugs,” said Ms Hampshire. “They not only have a significant level of personal concern about the issue but are also worried about the impact of drugs on friends, ...

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

... significantly lower cost per day than providing a bed in another institutional setting (eg: hospital or jail). The report An icon for exit: The Mission Australia Centre 2005-2008 - an analysis of the ...

19. Missionbeat: a Sydney icon turns 30
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... work and past achievements, he celebrates the event with mixed feelings knowing Sydney still wrestled with a significant homeless problem. To view photos from today's event please click here. “For ...

20. PM for a day? What would you do to tackle poverty?
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... the issue of poverty and engaged people in what they could do to help. “Most Australians are pretty lucky but there is a significant minority who are stuck in poverty, cut off from life’s essentials, ...

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

... society is ripe for social unrest and economic decline,” said Mr Hall. Mr Hall also said while the Rudd Government’s initiatives in building affordable and social housing had already been significant ...

22. The Mission Australia Story
(Pathways/About Us)

... a significant share of those programs. We are still one of the biggest employment providers in Australia today. Meanwhile, back in 1989, Mission SA approached Sydney City Mission to find out ways ...

23. Mission Australia Funding
(Pathways/About Us)

Face-to-face fundraising: Face-to-face fundraising is one of the campaigns we run throughout the year, to sign up new donors, who help to provide much needed funds for our programs and services. You ...

24. Ambassadors
(Pathways/About Us)

... at Sydney's Ensemble Theatre which lead to performances in over a dozen plays at the Ensemble where he also designed sets, directed plays and wrote and produced review sketches. Since then he has had a ...

25. Community Services in NSW
(Community Services/Community Services by State)

... provides supported playgroups, nutrition programs and a family resource centre. Brighter Futures Brighter Futures is a voluntary, targeted program designed for families encountering problems that impact ...