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Demand for homelessness assistance doubles over the past 10 years

12 October 2021 Increases in income support, more social housing and a boost to mental health funding are necessary to address the ‘out of control’ demand for homelessness assistance according to the Catholic Church’s peak social services group, Catholic Social Services Australia. According to data released this week by Homelessness Australia the number of Australians with mental...

Cabrini Outreach Christmas campaign : Give the gift of health this Christmas

Some of the many people supported by Cabrini Outreach are Asylum seekers in Melbourne. 350 people are receiving free primary care and/or specialist mental health care at the Cabrini Asylum Seeker and Refugee Health Hub. The vast majority have either no access to Medicare or Medicare but no income. Our psychiatrists, general practitioners and...

Walk our labyrinth at “Lunch in the Square”: Centacare SA

1 October 2019 As published at Centacare Pre-loved shoes will be used to create a sole-ful labyrinth in Victoria Square on Tuesday [8 October 2019]. The labyrinth pattern will be drawn with donated shoes, which those in need can take for free after walking its path. Leftover shoes will be donated to the Hutt St Centre. The labyrinth is being...

Changing for good

30 April 2019 A personal story, Johns experience with the Journey to Social Inclusion (J2SI) program Since the age of 15, John has been in and out of prison. He spent about six years in custody over the past 15 years of his life and had no stable accommodation for 10 years. When John was released from prison, he...

Medicalis-nation: the growing dependence of Australian public policy on drugs

An edited version of this paper was published in the Mandarin on 26 February 2019. Australian media regularly reports concerns about the over-use of drugs to treat our most vulnerable. However, what this reporting has missed is the subtle but underlying trend toward medicalisation in public policy. I first met Dorothy as part of a national evaluation of community-based...

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