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Jesuit Social Services' 2025 Annual Dinner
- 16 April 2025
On Friday 28 February, Jesuit Social Services welcomed over 210 guests to our Annual Dinner at the iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground. The event brought together representatives from Government, community services, health and education as well as members of the Jesuit community and donors to celebrate our collective efforts over the past year and to look…
All are welcome: Homework Club families gather for Iftar
- 15 April 2025
After more than 20 years working with school-aged students living on or around the Flemington public housing estate, Jesuit Social Services’ Homework Club program has built strong connections with the community surrounding those students.
Embedding faith in action
- 14 April 2025
‘Act justly, love tenderly and walk humbly with your God’. This is the mission of St Columba’s Catholic College in Springwood NSW, a school community that makes faith in action come alive for their students.
From community voices to collective power: advocating for a just and liveable Sydney
- 11 April 2025
Staff from Jesuit Social Services’ Centre for Just Places in Western Sydney recently attended the Sydney Alliance Assembly, joining nearly 850 community members in a powerful demonstration of collective action. The event brought together representatives from community organisations, unions, faith groups, and schools to advocate for a fairer Sydney, focusing on critical issues such as…
Serious fun helping kids connect after loss
- 9 April 2025
It’s a Wednesday morning in the school holidays. Some children are playing together in a school hall. It could be any regular school holiday program. Yet something more, something serious, brings these children together. They have all lost a parent to suicide. This is Support After Suicide’s program tailored to children: Serious Fun.
A place to call home leads young people away from crime
- 8 April 2025
Home should be a place where you feel safe and secure. While many of us might take that for granted, not all young people moving into Jesuit Social Services’ Perry House have had that experience.
Break the cycle through connection
- 7 April 2025
Peter Carrodus won’t forget how confronting his first visit to a prison was. “The regimentation, the social isolation, the guards…it was all really quite shocking,” he recalls. That was more than a decade ago, when Peter first volunteered with Jesuit Social Services’ African Visitation and Mentoring Program (AVAMP). Seeing his mentees grow has kept him…
Jesuit Social Services and ICON Construction are partnering to promote respect and inclusion in the construction industry
- 11 March 2025
Jesuit Social Services has joined forces with ICON Construction to drive cultural change in the construction sector, fostering workplaces where respect and inclusion are the norm.
Part-time nurse, full-time mother, lifelong volunteer - Linda's story
- 4 March 2025
Linda Tuuhetoka has devoted over two decades to serving her community through Jesuit Social Services’ Ignite Op Shop, a social enterprise in Emerton, New South Wales, that provides affordable second-hand home goods, clothing, and furniture. While the world around her has changed, Linda’s unwavering commitment to the shop and the people it serves remains constant...
“It turns out it was the missing piece he never knew he needed." How cooking helped Liam* find his way: a sad farewell to our Back on Track program
- 18 February 2025
“With every young person I try and figure out the missing pieces of their puzzle. For Liam*, it was acceptance,” says Keely, a restorative practitioner and case worker working with our soon-to-be-defunded Back on Track program.

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