In the Media
Governor-General visits Melbourne Citymission
15 May 2012
Australian Governor-General Quentin Bryce devoted Mothers’ Day afternoon to Melbourne’s young homeless, with a visit to Melbourne Citymission’s Precinct.
Dogs do jail time in attempt to help prisoners
27 April 2012
Homeless hounds will be sentenced to jail time in a bid to save their lives and help female inmates.
Abandoned dogs will be matched with prisoners at the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre in a new program dubbed Mates for Inmates.
Touched by the truth of war
24 April 2012
When Melbourne Citymission’s Ruth Heenan visited Kangaroo Island last April, she saw an elderly man wearing his war medals and selling Anzac pins.
Eltham homecoming brings flood of relief
13 March 2012
Gloria Batt, 81, was thrilled to return to Eltham Retirement Centre last week, after losing everything she owned and being forced out of her home after the Christmas Day floods
Julia Gillard's dig on daily news cycle
24 February 2012
Julia Gillard ventured into safe territory today, reminding adoring community services sector workers in Melbourne that their new equal pay deal was hard won over for years.
Lysterfield program gives youngsters time out
15 February 2012
Dozens of children and teenagers with disabled siblings have taken time out at Lysterfield Lake. Forty youngsters between the ages of eight and 18 spent the day at the park as part of Melbourne Citymission’s T.I.M.E. Out sibling program recently.
Tarneit volunteer recalls lives
31 January 2012
Tarneit's Jean Bohmer has written 16 biographies for terminally ill people during her past three years volunteering with Melbourne Citymission.
Living life of strangers
28 January 2012
Jean Bohmer has written 16 biographies for terminally ill people during her past three years volunteering with Melbourne Citymission.
Australia Day: Unsung heroes of our nation
26 Janaury 2012
Primrose Holland, 21, Williamstown
Hairdresser at Crown Spa, cuts the hair of homeless youth at Melbourne Citymission once a week.
Students' barriers breached
13 September 2011
DISABILITIES and language barriers are being broken by a group of Hume residents determined to succeed in life. More than 30 disadvantaged people began hospitality training at the Homestead Community and Learning Centre in Roxburgh Park on Friday.
Cooking up cohesion
12 October 2011
SOCIAL cohesion is high on the menu of a new program being served up at Melbourne Citymission's Youth Enterprise Hub.
The Kitchen Cultures program in Braybrook draws together young people from a range of cultures in a series of food-based workshops.
Community Visitors Scheme at Melbourne Citymission
18 February 2012
Melbourne Citymission has a 'Community Visitors Scheme' which hooks you up with an elderly person to befriend and visit once a week.
A new direction for the homeless
16 August 2011
Twenty year-old Karl became homeless three years ago. ‘‘It didn’t feel like home anymore. I didn’t feel supported for who I am,’’ he recalls. Karl wasn’t alone. Melbourne Citymission estimates 7,000 Victorians aged 12 to 25 are homeless on any given night. Many end up staying in motels, in refuges, couch surfing or on the street.
Investment means young homeless get hope
04 August 2011
IT COST $25,000 a year to turn Nicole from a frightened homeless 17-year-old runaway to an ambitious young woman who rents her own one-bedroom home and has just started a paid internship at a welfare agency.
Youth cook up recipe for harmony in Braybrook
30 September 2011
A MELBOURNE Citymission program in Braybrook aims to bridge the gap between cultural groups through food and arts.
Women work seven weeks without pay, says Prime Minister
11 November 2011
JULIA Gillard says low-paid women doing some of the most important caring jobs in the community are effectively working seven weeks a year free.
The Prime Minister vowed to change that yesterday by backing a union push for a historic pay rise worth between $7000 and $18,000
Opportunity springs from the Heart for African refugees in Braybrook
20 February 2012
A comeback against the odds has made the victory all the sweeter for African youths in Braybrook.
Refugees from the Horn of Africa are kicking goals on and off the field at the Melbourne Citymission Diversion Diversity Program.
Youth homeless program proves a winner
03 August 2011
There's solid evidence today of the success of a program that helps young homeless people. For seven years Melbourne Citymission has been teaching homeless young people basic life skills and helping them into education.
Eltham Retirement Centre – The Future
19 July 2011
Melbourne Citymission is proud to announce that it is committed to a major redevelopment of its Eltham Retirement Centre site.
Boxing champions urge better choices
12 July 2011
Young men taking part in Melbourne Citymission programs have been knocked out by a visit from two of Australia's leading boxers.
Minister Opens Bendigo Family Reconciliation Statewide Conference
20 May 2011
Minister for Housing Wendy Lovell today opened the Family Reconciliation Mediation Program annual statewide conference in Bendigo, which will raise awareness of the impacts of trauma on young people who have experienced homelessness.
Mission accomplished
3 May 2011
MICHELLE Suta, pictured with daughter Meisha and twins Sasha and Poppy at Hartnett House Children’s Centre in Brunswick, show off the latest in clean energy technology at the century-old Melbourne Citymission facility.
They're still the wild ones
14 April 2011
RETIRED bikers relived their easy riding days yesterday as they mounted hogs and hit the highway.
Melbourne's homeless youth are getting a new look
6 April 2011
Click here to see the report from Channel 10 on Melbourne Citymission's innovative hairdressing service
Taking steps for young homeless
26 March 2011
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We can't afford to ignore the homeless
4 March 2011
It's not every day that you see a girl dressed in a hot pink polo, with her hair in a neat pony tail begging on the streets for money.
Braybrook settlers find experience not wanted
25 February 2011
THE “lucky country” has not turned out so easy for three skilled migrant couples in Braybrook.
Maribyrnong students in crisis
8 February 2011
BACK to school is a crucial time for Maribyrnong’s homeless services as they struggle to secure digs for the growing numbers of young teens at risk of dropping out.
The Death Whisperer
2 February 2011
Molly Carlile helps people talk about a subject most would rather avoid.
Molly worked for Melbourne Citymission's at the time this feature was written in The Age.
An artistic lifeline for troubled teenagers
25 January 2011
A MELBOURNE installation artist has helped five down-and-out teenagers turn their lives around as part of a creative arts initiative run by some of the city's most resourceful youth organisations.
Melbourne Citymission
Melbourne Citymission works with people experiencing disadvantage across Melbourne and Victoria. Every week we help thousands of people build a clear pathway away from economic exclusion and social isolation.
Our services support:
- people to find a pathway out of homelessness
- people with a disability to get the resources and support they need to live the life they want
- people to break the cycle of poverty and abuse
- people to find jobs, or enter into education and training.
