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A call for collaborative action on climate justice in Melbourne’s west
The co-designed Plan is the result of a year-long project which brought together over 44 community health and service organisations and local stakeholders to identify where community health and service organisations and communities are currently connected, what is needed to strengthen those...
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Policing students celebrate diversity program graduation
Twenty-three participants from 14 countries are the most recent graduates of the Victoria Police Diversity Recruitment Program – a pathway towards a possible future career in policing – after a recent course completion ceremony in Melbourne.
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Newly-arrived families grow their engagement with First Nations culture at Homework Club event
Recently, close to sixty students and family members from Jesuit Social Services’ Settlement Program and Flemington Homework Club, gathered on Wurundjeri land to experience a Welcome to Country and play bush bingo and a scavenger hunt activity with an Indigenous lens.
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Justice in Jobs: The importance of employment to youth in the justice system
Finding work with a criminal record is fraught – and often, maintaining employment in complex and changing circumstances can be even harder. Yet evidence and experience show many justice-involved job-seekers are motivated workers, capable of making the most of opportunities when given a chance. And employment and training provide the stability, purpose and resources young people need to move away from the criminal justice system and onto a better path.
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Maya makes a life in Melbourne
“It has meant a life for me.” Hear how the support of our Settlement and Jobs Victoria Employment Service programs helped Maya and her family find new life and opportunity in Australia.
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Mobilising climate just and resilient communities in the west
More than 30 representatives from state health, environment and utility agencies, local governments, health and community service organisations in Melbourne’s west gathered recently to identify shared priorities to mobilise climate justice...
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Trust and relationships at the heart of the Hub
Jesuit Social Services’ Dropping off the Edge research into locational disadvantage, conducted over more than 20 years, finds that many communities in Western Sydney deal with multiple and complex forms of disadvantage.