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  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • “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.

  • Maribyrnong Community Residential Facility

    To have my boy back is beyond words

    • 19 January 2025

    Hear how our Maribyrnong Community Residential Facility is supporting men exiting prison to move on from their offending and rebuild their lives.

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    Our justice work described as “credit worthy and unique” by global expert

    • 18 January 2025

    In November, we hosted renowned international criminal justice systems expert Dr Baz Dreisinger for a day. Baz founded the Prison-to-College Pipeline program at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, and as Executive Director of Incarceration Nations Network she investigates how justice can be done differently around the world. Baz has written books,…

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