Anglicare’s Evaluation report released this month shows promising results for an innovative Transition to Leaving Care (TLC) program funded by the NSW government and implemented in July 2014 by Anglicare’s St Saviours Out of Home Care in Liverpool to help young people struggling with the transition out of care into independent living. “The workers at…
Canberra’s not-for-profits are calling on the community to help asylum seekers without income during National Refugee Week 19 – 25 June. Anglicare CEO, Jeremy Halcrow says “With no capacity to receive income we are very concerned these vulnerable and sometimes highly traumatised people will have no choice but to rely on the generosity of Canberrans…
The ACT Council of Social Service supports the overall direction of the ACT Budget for 2016-17 announced today. New funding to respond better to the needs of people exposed to domestic and family violence, more funding for mental health, drug and alcohol treatment, emergency and trauma health services, justice programs and well targeted resources to…
Anglicare Australia has joined with a coalition of homelessness providers, including Mission Australia, UnitingCare Australia, Brotherhood of St Laurence, The Salvation Army, St Vincent de Paul and Wesley Mission, to urge all major political parties to commit to halving homelessness by 2025. In a joint letter sent to Malcolm Turnbull, Barnaby Joyce, Bill Shorten and Senator…
This coming week is National Reconciliation Week. The dates of 27 May and 3 June commemorate respectively the successful 1967 Referendum and the High Court Mabo judgment. These were two very significant steps on the journey to reconciliation, a journey that is not yet complete. ‘Reconciliation’ has several definitions. These include: ‘a situation in which…
Anglicare officially opened its new Goulburn ECC in the premises of the former TAFE child care centre on May 16. In opening the new centre, Anglicare CEO Jeremy Halcrow said the story of Anglicare’s children’s services division which now care for over 1000 children in southern NSW and the ACT each week – began in…
Anglicare celebrates opening of new ‘Bargain Hunter’ op-shop in Phillip Anglicare is delighted to announce the official launch of a new ‘Bargain Hunter’ op-shop at 41 Colbee Court in Phillip on Wednesday May 4. The new Phillip store will be open to customers from 9.30am Monday May 2. The store will complement the larger ‘Bargain…
Canberra’s housing affordability crisis looks set to continue with low income earners, young people and single parents the hardest hit, according to Anglicare’s annual Rental Affordability Snapshot. In its seventh year, the snapshot surveyed 1329 properties advertised for rent in the Canberra region on Friday 1 April in terms of affordability (up to 30 per…
