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Homework Club celebrates another successful year
- 18 December 2025
Homework Club volunteers, participant families and Jesuit Social Services staff gathered to celebrate another successful year together over a barbecue and a bounce on the trampolines.
Life-changing support at Perry House
- 15 December 2025
For more than 30 years, Jesuit Social Services’ Perry House program has provided supportive housing for young people with a cognitive impairment, who are involved with the justice system and at risk of experiencing homelessness.
Bringing a justice lens to climate resilience
- 15 December 2025
Communities across Australia are facing more frequent and severe disasters — from bushfires and floods to long-term environmental stresses. But the impacts aren’t evenly shared. For people already facing housing instability, poor health, or financial hardship, the impacts of climate change can deepen existing inequities and injustice.
Modelling respect and equality in schools
- 15 December 2025
In 2017, Jesuit Social Services established The Men’s Project, informed by our decades of work with boys and men who perpetrate, and are often also the victims of, violence. By working directly with boys and men, as well as those in their lives, we can promote positive forms of masculinity and work to prevent gender-based…
Maribyrnong helping participants to break the cycle of recidivism
- 10 December 2025
In Victoria, around half of all people exiting the state’s prison system are homeless. Access to stable accommodation is a key factor in people being able to break the cycle of recidivism. Jesuit Social Services in partnership with Corrections Victoria and G4S began operating the Maribyrnong Community Residential Facility in 2020. The program works with…
Garden course plants seed for redemption
- 10 December 2025
Allan*, who is in his late 40s, has never had a steady job. While he’s had casual employment over the years, he had also stolen and sold high end cars, which led to more than a decade of cycling in and out of the prison system. But now things are looking up, thanks to Jesuit…
Community power on full display at the Transport Assembly in Bidwill
- 4 December 2025
Earlier this month, more than 150 Western Sydney residents, community leaders and partner organisations packed out Bidwill Uniting Church for the long-awaited Transport Assembly - a moment that marked the culmination of several years of deep listening, relationship-building and collective organising across the 2770 postcode of Mount Druitt.
A simple sign, a stronger welcome: Supporting new refugee communities in Emerton NSW
- 25 November 2025
As the demographics of Western Sydney’s Emerton community continue to shift, Jesuit Social Services’ Ignite Food Store is seeing more newly arrived refugee families turning to the store for affordable, locally accessible food. For staff and volunteers, this change has brought new opportunities to deepen relationships and ensure everyone who walk through the door feel…
Willmot Community Hub is creating safe spaces for young women to learn, connect and thrive
- 17 October 2025
Twelve-year-old Maya first heard about the Jesuit Social Services’ led Willmot Community Hub through her mother. Overhearing phone conversations and seeing her mum at community events sparked a curiosity, and soon after, Maya began attending too.
From Harm to Healing
- 14 August 2025
For retired teachers Gai and Graham, participating in one of our Youth Justice Group Conferences offered a chance to heal and to support the young man responsible for a confronting break-in at their home.