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Australian Catholic Bishops Conference – Statement on Refugees and Asylum Seekers

December 18, 2018 STATEMENT FROM THE ACBC PRESIDENT ARCHBISHOP MARK COLERIDGE Our elected representatives have returned home for Christmas without resolving the offshore detention crisis that confronts our country. It would seem that a majority in both houses of our Parliament favour laws and policies that will bring to an end the five-year saga of refugees...

Schools as ‘wrap-around hubs’ in disadvantaged communities

28 November 2018 By Brenton Prosser PhD, Former Director Research, CSSA Over the last few years, there has been growing interest around school-led community initiatives to respond to challenges in areas of entrenched disadvantage. It is not as though community hubs are a new idea, while place-based projects have been around for over a decade. But...

Spirituality and resilience in the social services workforce

By Brenton Prosser PhD, Former Director of Research, CSSA For many years, professionalism in social service delivery meant being caring but not immersed, empathic but not emotional, and rational not religious. Increasingly academic research is showing the importance of spiritual leadership, mindfulness and personal belief in sustaining social service workers and quality of care. Recently, the...

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