Children’s Week. Children’s Week is a national celebration that recognises the talents, skills, achievements and rights of children. Children’s Week runs from Saturday 21 October to Sunday 29 October 2023….
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This year National Child Protection Week will continue to champion the message ‘Every child in every community needs a fair go’. This message captures the essences of National Child Protection…
This week is Homelessness Week, and Jo and I wanted to share some pics from last week’s Houses at Parliament campaign. We were absolutely blown away by the success of…
Ending Homelessness The last Census shows that, on any given night, at least 30,000 Victorians are without a home (including 6,800 children). They’re living in their car, staying somewhere temporary…
The Minister for Health announce that all Victorian government primary, secondary and specialist school have now been invited to participate in the Smile Squad program. The program gives students…
Youth Homelessness Matters Day (YHMD) has been an exciting campaign since its inception in 1990. Started by a group of social advocates who believed too many young people were moving…
Did you know that almost 40,000 young people aged 15–24 years presented alone to a homelessness service in 2021–22? Of these young people, almost half experienced mental ill-health and…
Homelessness and Child Mental Health – Emerging Minds Podcast- Statewide Children’s Resource Program
This podcast explores the topic of homelessness and its impacts on children and families – in particular, how it affects child mental health. Most importantly, it provides workable strategies and…
Escape Bags’ are free, tote bags kindly made with love by volunteers and then filled at Escabags Warehouse with the necessities that a victim of abuse and her/his children may need…
There has been 35 recommendations made from the Inquiry into Homelessness in Australia and the Morrison Government has chosen not to support the committee’s recommendation that the Australian Government, in…
ONE BILLION CHILDREN EXPERIENCED VIOLENCE IN THE LAST YEAR ALONE. THAT’S HALF THE WORLD’S CHILDREN. The Polished Man campaign encourages everyone to take a stand and actively commit to helping…
This thought provoking story from the ABC news website not only outlines the case for an increase in affordable housing but also provides details of the newly formed National Affordable…
Back in 2012 Fair Work Australia made a landmark decision to raise the pay rate for the mostly female community sector workforce over eight years, with the final instalment due…
Featuring a panel of speakers from the Loddon region, along with Kate Colvin from the Council to Homeless Persons, and Trevor Brown from their Peer Education Support Program, the webinar…
We haven’t let COVID-19 stop us from marking a really important week. On Monday for the first time, Homelessness Week will be launched in a virtual Town Hall meeting hosted…
The Australian Services Union is calling on the Federal Government to abandon its plan to increase the costs of Social Work and related degrees like Social Science, Social Welfare, Human…
Right now in Australia, there’s just one job vacancy for every 13 people looking for work. This mismatch will get worse before it gets better, as the economic crisis sparked…
National Homelessness Week will be held from 3 – 8 August 2020 Due to the pandemic there won’t be a physical launch of the week and the focus will instead…