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1. Our partners
(Partnerships/Major Corporate and Community Partners)

...  The Westpac Foundation has contributed significant funds to Mission Australia's Pathways to Prevention project in Brisbane's disadvantaged suburb of Inala. Pathways to Prevention aims to build people's ...

2. Rebels reach new heights with our youth programs
(Daily News/Blog)

RaboDirect Rebels Nick Stirzaker, Luke Jones and Isaiah Mosese recently joined children from three Mission Australia youth programs - Solid Ground, Arise and Youth Connections Northern Suburbs - for ...

3. Reconnecting with life
(Community Services/Community Services)

... to Mission Australia’s South-East Metro Community Drug Service in the Perth suburb of Cannington, he was determined to change his life. This service offers counselling to families and individuals with ...

4. Youth Beat (SA, NT and TAS)
(Community Services/Community Services)

Youth Beat is a Mission Australia safety and early intervention program supporting young people on the streets of Adelaide’s CBD, Darwin, Palmerston, Katherine and Hobart’s northern suburbs. The brightly ...

5. Media coverage - ABC: Toby Hall talks social enterprise
(Daily News/Blog)

... program in the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, which is achieving good results for young people from highly disadvantaged communities. Seventy per cent of the young people who have trained at Charcoal Lane ...

6. Toby Hall talks social enterprise
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... Australia social enterprises such as Mission Australia’s Charcoal Lane restaurant program in the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, which is achieving good results for young people from highly disadvantaged ...

7. Rebuilding homes and lives in Queensland
(Daily News/Blog)

... the test as they worked on a flood-affected house in the Ipswich suburb of Bundamba. Few of the boys had had any real work experience and Mission Australia Access Program team member, Leonie Doyle, said ...

8. Owen Craigie warns of gambling pitfalls
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... far south as Nowra, west to Brewarrina and then in the Sydney suburbs of Redfern, Mt Druitt and Campbelltown, Craigie talks about everything from the stolen generation and alcoholism to the awful habit ...

9. Counting the homeless on Census night
(Daily News/Blog)

... all people who have no usual permanent address write ‘None’ in the ‘Suburb/Locality’ box for the usual place of residence question on the Census form, regardless of where they are staying on Census night. ...

10. Community barbecues offer insight into long-grasser life
(Daily News/Blog)

... grasser’ in Darwin’s suburbs for the most part of 20 years. In that time he’s lost contact with his family and on several occasions ended up in the critical unit at the hospital. Doug ended up sleeping ...

11. Bold approach to homelessness will take 70 most vulnerable off streets
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... who will pay about 25 per cent of the market rent. Some will remain in the inner city but others will be helped return to their home suburbs or towns, where they will be matched with appropriate support ...

12. Liverpool Family Day Care (NSW)
(Community Services/Community Services)

... and abilities. The program is located in the south-western Sydney suburb of Miller and has Educators across the Liverpool Local Government Area. Families contact the service directly and are matched ...

13. Locals living rough
(News/Media Releases Archive)

Media coverage - Southern Courier, 17 July 2011 Homelessness is a serious issue in the Sydney suburb of Randwick, according to Labor councillor Tony Bowen, who will seek support for a public awareness ...

14. Communities for Children - Mt Druitt (NSW)
(Community Services/Community Services)

...  The C4C program provides a range of services that are easily accessible to families in Mt Druitt and its surrounding suburbs. These include: Kids’ gym Family Links (Community Hubs) in four local ...

15. Transforming homes and lives after the floods
(Daily News/Blog)

... a week working on a flood-affected house in the Ipswich suburb of Bundamba. Mission Australia Australian Apprenticeships Access Program Placement Officer Leonie Doyle said this particular program was ...

16. Prime Minister visits Alice Springs
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... Transformation Plan is helping to remodel the town camps so that they are like any other suburb. It is providing decent infrastructure such as roads, power, water, sewage and drainage, improved street ...

17. Stopping the spiral into homelessness
(Daily News/Blog)

... and suspicious of everyone. When things become unbearable, Tom took to the streets – begging from passersby and rummaging through garbage bins for food. Eventually he settled in the alcove of a suburban ...

18. Have you even met an Aboriginal person?
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... did in suburban Melbourne all those years ago. It leads me to ask, why are the majority of Australians not engaging with Aboriginal people? Is it disinterest? Is it apprehension or fear? Is it lack of ...

19. System fails jobless on disability support
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... that passive welfare has created in some Aboriginal communities and suburbs on our city fringes. We all know this – governments know it, community agencies know it, the public senses it – and with any ...

20. Fighting the drop-out factor
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... heed his advice, but are failing to make the transition to further study. Jordan grew up in Melbourne's north-west suburbs, where more than half those aged 15 to 19 are not studying and are registered ...

21. Families are the city's hidden homeless
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... on the rise," Wesley Mission's chief executive, the Reverend Keith Garner, said. "They are in our suburbs, sleeping on the floor in a relative or friend's house, sleeping in their car, living in a refuge ...

22. Jacaranda House (WA)
(Community Services/Community Services)

Located in the northern suburbs of Perth, Jacaranda House is a hub for support programs that help people to find pathways away from homelessness. The following services are provided from Jacaranda House: ...

23. Fairlight Centre (NSW)
(Community Services/Community Services)

Mission Australia’s Fairlight Centre attempts to meet the needs of homeless, alcoholic or drug-dependent men during their recovery and transition into mainstream society Based in the Sydney suburb of ...

24. Everybody belongs in our Home Tutor Scheme
(Daily News/Blog)

... and Enhancement Program in Sydney’s south-western and western suburbs. The Home Tutor Scheme is part of the Adult Migrant English Program, which is funded by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship, ...

25. New ways to tackle homelessness
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... together. It will have a focus on employment outcomes for young people experiencing homelessness and drug and alcohol issues. The group will work with about 50 young people in the western suburbs of ...