Mission Australia

1. Experiencing Poverty
(Document Downloads)

... the University of New South Wales’ Social Policy Research Centre (SPRC), ACOSS, Mission Australia, the Brotherhood of St Laurence and Anglicare Sydney. Focus groups were conducted with users of welfare ...

2. Enhancing participation: New possibilities for disadvantaged Australians
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Catalyst-Clemente snapshot. Universities, community organisations and businesses across Australia are being encouraged to become involved in the Catalyst-Clemente program - groundbreaking educational initiative ...

3. The Families on the Fringe report
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The Families on the Fringe report was a co-operative research project between The University of Queensland, Mission Australia, and The Benevolent Society – and funded by the Australian Research Council. ...

4. The Families on the Fringe report - Summary Snapshot
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The Families on the Fringe report was a co-operative research project between The University of Queensland, Mission Australia, and The Benevolent Society – and funded by the Australian Research Council. ...

5. Pathways to Prevention Project
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... problem behaviour in young children, strengthens families and fosters positive child development. Mission Australia and Griffith University are partners in the groundbreaking family early intervention ...

6. Crime and Social Isolation: Beyond Moral Panics and Bad Parents
(Document Downloads)

Dr Murray Lee is senior lecturer in criminology at the University of Western Sydney in the School of Applied Social and Human Sciences. Dr Murray has also been a research coordinator on a large three-year ...

7. 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 ...

8. Mission Australia to host community forum at Rooty Hill RSL today
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... in the Mt Druitt area. Giving the keynote address at the forum will be Dr Fiona Hilferty from the University of NSW who will be speaking on the impact of poverty on children’s learning. Communities ...

9. Our people
(Pathways/About Us)

...  Donald Robertson, BA (Crim), MA (Ed), Dip Env Studies was appointed a director in 1992. He is Associate Professor and Director, Australian Centre for Security Research, University of Western Sydney. ...

10. Ambassadors
(Pathways/About Us)

... Lipski is a Miss World Runner Up for 2008 and will compete again in the 2009 Miss World Australia competition. A fourth year student at the University of Sydney studying a triple major in Sociology/Social ...

11. Community Services in Queensland
(Community Services/Community Services by State)

... Australia and Griffith University. Operating as a family support service, Pathways supports families with children aged 4-12 in the Inala and Carole Park areas of Brisbane. The program improves the opportunities ...

12. Community Services in Western Australia
(Community Services/Community Services by State)

... health access services Employment assistance Substance abuse support to young aboriginal people and their families Low cost community food bus Catalyst Program – providing accredited university ...

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

Luke Butcher - Personal Helpers and Mentors Program and Orange Youth Accommodation Support Service In 2006 I completed a Bachelor of Arts (Psychology) from the University of Newcastle and was accepted ...

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

... you are invited to apply to be a Learning Partner with Catalyst Clemente Newcastle About Catalyst Clemente: The Catalyst Clemente program is a community based university program which offers humanities ...

15. WA Volunteer Opportunities
(Volunteer/Volunteer Opportunities)

Wattle House - Catalyst Program Crèche The Catalyst University Program is run at Wattle House in Maddington, which provides students with credit points towards University education. The Catalyst ...

16. Donation Bin Locations
(Big Heart/information)

... - Civic Video Shellharbour Square Tarrawanna Road Thirroul - Plaza Towradgi - Towradgi Road Service Station Wollongong - Bob Jane Wollongong University - Campus East Wollongong University ...

17. From little things, big things grow - a story from Mission Australia’s Special Needs Dental Service (SNDS)
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... self-esteem. He smiled often, and communicated confidently. By this time, he had completed his Diploma of Welfare and was looking to enrol in a social work degree at university in 2009. He had also been ...

18. Tackling truancy - is cutting welfare payments an effective method?
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... (Behrendt is professor of law and indigenous studies at Sydney's University of Technology) in which she outlined some of the successful initiatives that have been used to combat truancy in Indigenous communities ...

19. Mission Australia's Michael Project for the homeless launched today
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... will be underpinned by a comprehensive research program in partnership with Murdoch University and the University of NSW for its duration. The research will examine Michael Project outcomes across housing/homelessness, ...

20. Young people's mental health - The hidden challenges and how innovation can help
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... and the innovative solutions available at a seminar in Sydney at 12.30pm on Wednesday 13 August 2008... Professor Patrick McGorry, Professor of Youth Mental Health at the University of Melbourne and ...

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

A group of disadvantaged Melburnians have graduated from a groundbreaking new university-style program developed by Mission Australia and Australian Catholic University (ACU National). The Catalyst-Clemente ...

22. Migrants and refugees give back to Australia
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... backgrounds (NESB), conflicting with recent research by Monash University suggesting that migrants from NESBs are less likely to volunteer than Australian-born people and migrants from English speaking ...

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

... program, sponsored by Woodside, is designed to provide to those who may not normally access university education, enrolment in a course at Edith Cowan University. Mission Australia’s Catalyst Program ...

24. Corporate Social Responsibility
(Partnerships/Corporate Partnerships)

... Energy Authority www.seav.vic.gov.au Asia Pacific Centre for Philanthropy and Social Investment www.swinburnephilanthropy.net Centre for Sustainable Performance (University of Technology Sydney) ...

25. New poverty research shows Australians missing out
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... Policy Research Centre at the University of New South Wales in partnership with Mission Australia, Anglicare (Sydney) and the Brotherhood of St Laurence; as well as the Australian Council of Social Service ...