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. 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 ...

3. 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, ...

4. 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 ...

5. 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, ...

6. 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 ...

7. 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 ...

8. 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 ...

9. 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, ...

10. 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 ...

11. 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 ...

12. 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, ...

13. 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 ...

14. 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 ...

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

...  domestic violence parental drug and alcohol misuse parental mental health issues lack of extended family or social support parents with significant learning difficulties and/or intellectual ...

16. VIC Volunteer Opportunities
(Volunteer/Volunteer Opportunities)

... of current services 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 ...

17. SA Volunteer Opportunities
(Volunteer/Volunteer Opportunities)

... out of reach for many of out families. By providing new play materials every week or two, parents on low incomes can significantly contribute towards the development and education of their child as well ...

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

... aboriginal groups and with significant input from Reconciliation Australia. As part of Mission Australia’s RAP the organisation is committed to (among other things): Establishing ...

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

... positive and significant contribution to early learning in the Illawarra and we’re very excited to have taken on the two former ABC Learning centres in Corrimal and Shell Cove. “Currently we assist hundreds ...

20. Social enterprise restaurant to provide training for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal young people
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... health service, has been transformed into a new restaurant and upstairs training kitchen. Charcoal Lane was a significant local meeting place in Victorian Aboriginal history, most recently documented ...

21. Australia's approach to Juvenile Justice must change
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... diversionary programs. Mission Australia’s spokesperson, Anne Hampshire, said an upturn in the number of young people in custody, high levels of recidivism and the significant cost of locking young people ...

22. When Gambling is No Longer Fun
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... which contribute significant amounts to the community, but if these community activities are being supported by proceeds from problem gamblers (whose ranks account for a third of the gambling industry ...

23. The big issues facing our kids
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... need re-evaluating. From our survey, we know that concern about drugs drops significantly among older teens while other evidence shows illicit drug use goes up. Close to 19 per cent of 16- to 17-year-olds ...

24. AMP Foundation
(Partnerships/Major Corporate and Community Partners)

... the two organisations continue to work together today. The AMP Foundation was formed in 1992 and is the main body through which AMP invests in the community. The AMP Foundation  formed a significant three ...

25. Mission Australia welcomes Homelessness Revolution
(News/Media Releases Archive)

Mission Australia – one of the largest providers of services to homeless people in the country – has welcomed the Rudd Government’s White Paper strategy on tackling homelessness calling it “the most significant ...