Reintegration Puzzle conference

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…

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.

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…

“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.

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

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,…

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…