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  • 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.

  • Tailored support enables ReConnect participants to flourish

    • 16 January 2025

    As Father Brosnan once said, “Three things that I have noted are needed by someone leaving prison are: a place to live that is decent, a job they can handle, and friendship.” Our ReConnect program echoes this wisdom by providing the comprehensive support that enables participants to flourish. It provides up to nine months assistance…

  • Specialist NDIS support to ease transition from care

    • 30 November 2022

    With our specialised support, 17-year-old Allie prepared to exit out-of-home care and live independently in the community.

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    Homelessness Week 2022 – stable housing helps people get their lives back on track

    • 29 July 2022

    Around one third of people exiting prison do so into homelessness. The need for stable housing is critical in helping people to turn their lives around, become productive members of society and ultimately reach their potential.

  • Housing support helps self-belief grow

    • 7 June 2022

    The strong links between homelessness and contact with the criminal justice system are well documented. Twenty-five per cent of people entering prison experience homelessness in the four weeks before entering prison and more than half of those...

  • Maribyrnong success shows potential of rehabilitative justice

    • 31 May 2022

    ‘Without your help, I’d be back in jail by now.’ It’s a comment staff at our unique ‘step-down’ post-prison accommodation have heard multiple times over the past two years. The Maribyrnong Community Residential Facility, in Melbourne’s west, provides temporary accommodation and wraparound support to men leaving prison who would otherwise be homeless – a circumstance…

  • Pilot program preventing homelessness after prison

    • 27 May 2021

    The Maribyrnong Community Residential Facility supports men who are exiting prison to find stable housing and employment prior to reentering the community One of the key challenges experienced by people exiting the prison system is a lack of safe and secure housing. Nearly half of people who exit prison in Victoria do so into homelessness,…

  • The importance of relationships at Dillon House

    • 25 May 2021

    Giovanna Nicolia, Next Steps Program Coordinator Next Steps is a flexible, responsive early intervention program which aims to address both homelessness and the criminal offending of young people. The program works intensively, both in a residential setting and in an outreach case management capacity, to provide access to secure, sustainable housing and simultaneously reduce a…

  • Transitional support and housing pilot creating hope for the future

    • 15 September 2020
  • Place-based social change on the agenda in Western Sydney

    • 12 March 2020

    Attendees at the ChangeFest Aboriginal astrology workshop ChangeFest is a national celebration of place-based social change – which empowers and supports local communities to identify, plan, fund and evaluate the services they need. In November 2019, the three-day event was held in Mount Druitt, Western Sydney, where we have worked with and alongside the community…

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