Wellsprings for Women provides a caring space for women along with a range of support services and programs offered throughout the year. As part of its Gender Equality Program, Wellsprings has produced a number of free resources for use by other agencies, sector workers and schools.
Our member organisation, Good Samaritan Inn, provides short term, crisis accommodation and support, for women, children and young people experiencing family violence or homelessness. Good Samaritan Inn is looking for dedicated volunteers to cook an evening meal for its guests during the week.
The Opening the Doors Foundation, which celebrates its 20-year anniversary in 2021, addresses the severe educational disadvantage still being experienced by many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families in Victoria. In a special edition newsletter, Manager of Aboriginal Catholic Ministry Victoria, Sherry Balcombe, shares her 'great pride and pleasure' in 'the fantastic achievements of the Opening The Doors Foundation'.
Mt Atkinson Community, located in Truganina, in Melbourne's west, hosts a weekly adult art group on Mondays, 10am-12.30pm for locals. The art group, which is welcoming of all abilities, and offers a diverse forms of art, is followed by a social lunch from 12.30pm-1pm. The group is looking for a committed volunteer who could assist in the running and facilitation of this group.
Each month we compile a list of job opportunities, board vacancies and volunteering opportunities within our network of members. We encourage you to visit this page and spread the word among your networks. We hope this ‘Jobs Board’ will become a valuable resource among our readers.
In a spirit of anticipation and celebration, staff, friends and member representatives of Catholic Social Services Victoria recently gathered for the 2021 Commissioning Mass and annual general meeting. It has been more than 12 months since CSSV has hosted an 'in-person' event, given the onset of COVID-19 restrictions soon after the national Catholic social services conference held in Melbourne last February.
The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference and Australian Catholic University's public policy think tank, the PM Glynn Institute, hosted an online roundtable this week to consider the Catholic policy response to COVID-19. The event drew together leaders from a range of ministries and fields, from within and beyond the Church. A discussion paper will be published after Easter summarising the key topics and themes, addressed during the roundtable.
Catholic Social Service Australia had condemned the Government's decision to set the JobSeeker payment at just $44 per day, as hundreds of thousands of people prepare to move from JobKeeper to JobSeeker payments in the coming days. CEO Dr Ursula Stephens explains that despite widespread support for higher payment levels for JobSeeker, those calls have been ignored.
The COVID-19 vaccine has commenced its rollout across VMCH’s aged care residences. Star of the Sea Aged Care Residence, Torquay was the first of the organisation’s 12 homes to receive the vaccine.
Addressing the impact of mental ill health and its onflow effects cuts across the heart of much of the work of Catholic Social Services Victoria and our member organisations. CSSV welcomes the final report of the Royal Commission into Victoria's Mental Health System, which was tabled in Parliament by the Victorian Government on 2nd March 2021.