- 1. The Five-Year Youth Mental Health Report has launched
- (Opinion)
- Today Mission Australia has released its joint Five-Year Youth Mental Health Report with Black Dog Institute, sharing the insights gathered about the mental health of Australia’s young people during ...
- Created on 19 April 2017
- 2. Mission Australia reports young people most concerned about alcohol, drugs, mental health and discrimination
- (Media releases)
- ... experiencing gender discrimination and one in five Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people reported experiencing discrimination on the basis of race or cultural background. Catherine Yeomans, ...
- Created on 05 December 2016
- 3. Impact Report New Year 2022
- (Other)
- ... your thoughts and motivations in our Supporter Survey. Thank you to over 2,500 supporters who responded. Top five social issues that you care about: Reasons why you give to Mission Australia: ...
- Created on 25 January 2022
- 4. Young Australians raise pressing concerns around mental health, environment, bullying and voice
- (Media releases)
- ... of challenges in their lives. For the first time in 2019, young people were asked whether they had experienced bullying, with more than one in five (21.0%) young people reporting they had been bullied ...
- Created on 26 November 2019
- 5. Action urgently needed to stem rising youth mental illness
- (Media releases)
- A joint report released today by Mission Australia and Black Dog Institute shows more young Australians are in psychological distress than five years ago, with almost one in four young people in 2016 ...
- Created on 18 April 2017
- 6. Five ways to stand against domestic violence
- (Safe homes)
- ... received support from specialist homelessness services last year. Around 75% of those people identified as females.1 Here are five ways you can stand against domestic and family violence: 1. Raise ...
- Created on 07 March 2023
- 7. RG Impact Report NY landing page
- (Other)
- ... a lot, but there’s so much more to be done. As a valued supporter, we want to share with you our new five-year strategy. From 2020-25, these four focus areas will guide us towards our goal of ending ...
- Created on 21 December 2020
- 8. Three things you didn’t know about youth homelessness
- (People and communities)
- ... unseen, with many people relying on temporary forms of accommodation and shelter. Of the survey respondents, 13% said they had experienced couch surfing, a form of homelessness. Almost one in five (18%) ...
- Created on 28 July 2020
- 9. 2022 Strategy Update
- (About)
- ... commitment to work with five areas to create strong, resilient and thriving communities. In 2021, Cairns South, an area with entrenched disadvantage and many gaps in services, was chosen as our first Community ...
- Created on 06 October 2022
- 10. Helping young people escape homelessness
- (Safe homes)
- ... distress In Western Australia, over five per cent of young people said they had become homeless for the first time during the pandemic. Read more about youth homelessness during the pandemic here. ...
- Created on 20 September 2022
- 11. Homelessness in Australia statistics
- (Homelessness & social housing)
- ... population? (ABS, 2021) Five shocking stats about homelessness in Australia: 1. There are over 122,000 people experiencing homelessness on any given night1 2. Only 6 percent of people who are ...
- Created on 07 July 2022
- 12. Winter Newsletter 2022
- (Newsletters)
- ... in a time of need. Saving Julia’s family from homelessness Like any loving parent, single mum Julia* is determined to give her five children the best chance in life. ...
- Created on 30 June 2022
- 13. Summer Newsletter 2022
- (Newsletters)
- ... Top five social issues that you care about: Reasons why you give to Mission Australia: 1 Mission Australia Annual Report 2021 (Relates to 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021.) *Names ...
- Created on 18 January 2022
- 14. REVEALED: Young people’s top issues and concerns in 2021
- (Media releases)
- ... activity and exercise guidelines, with more than two thirds (67.4%) reporting less than seven hours of exercise weekly, around three quarters (77.0%) engaging in screen use more than five hours daily and ...
- Created on 26 November 2021
- 15. 1 in 4 young people facing psychological distress during pandemic
- (Media releases)
- ... people in 2020 said they are experiencing mental health challenges; a significant increase since 2012 when one in five young people were facing similar concerns. The Psychological distress in young people ...
- Created on 06 September 2021
- 16. 1 in 6 young people in Australia have experienced homelessness
- (Media releases)
- ... accommodation and/or had spent time couch surfing. Of the young people who reported couch surfing (13.0%), almost one in five (18.8%) said that they had first done so when they were under the age of ...
- Created on 28 July 2020
- 17. Critical changes needed to support young people with disability
- (Media releases)
- ... are twice as likely to have experienced bullying in the past 12 months than their peers without disability, with two in five young people with disability reporting this (43.4% compared with 19.3%). Mission ...
- Created on 19 May 2020
- 18. Five Year Mental Health Youth Report
- Mission Australia is proud to collaborate with the Black Dog Institute on this year’s Youth Mental Health Report. The report presents five years of mental health data collected from young people across ...
- Created on 18 April 2017
- 19. Five Year Mental Health Youth Report Infographic
- Mission Australia is proud to collaborate with the Black Dog Institute on this year’s Youth Mental Health Report. This is a two page document, summarising some of the key findings from this research. ...
- Created on 18 April 2017
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