Geelong students lighting up local school
MacKillop Family Services’ specialist school in Whittington will this week celebrate the official launch of its federally funded National Solar Schools Project. This local school for disadvantaged...
View ArticleMore foster care services for Aboriginal children
NSW Community Services and AbSec today announced a partnership between MacKillop Family Services and South Coast Aboriginal Medical Service (AMS) to provide out-of-home care* for Aboriginal children in...
View ArticleI just want to go to school: Report Launch
To mark Social Inclusion Week, an innovative digital story-telling research project, I Just Want To Go To School: Voices of young people experiencing educational disadvantage, will be launched at a...
View ArticleWorthy foster carers awarded Order of Australia
Caulfield South foster carers Tricia and Charles Oakenfull were awarded an Order of Australia as part of the 2013 Australia Day Honours List for service to the community as foster carers. Nominated by...
View ArticleMacKillop congratulates Victoria's first Commissioner for Children and Young...
MacKillop Family Services has warmly welcomed the Baillieu Government’s appointment of Bernie Geary OAM, as Victoria’s first Commissioner for Children and Young People. “At MacKillop we all have a...
View ArticleMacKillop to hold gathering today for forced adoptions national apology
MacKillop Family Services will today host a gathering of people to listen together to the national apology from the Prime Minister, the Hon Julia Gillard MP. The Prime Minister is delivering the...
View ArticleMacKillop's special service for forced adoptions national apology
Today, Thursday 21 March, MacKillop Family Services hosted a gathering of people to listen together to the national apology for forced adoptions from the Prime Minister, the Hon Julia Gillard MP. The...
View ArticleMacKillop opens office in Blacktown
Today, Friday 5 March, MacKillop Family Services officially opened their new office in Blacktown, New South Wales with representatives from MacKillop Family Services, as well as local MacKillop...
View ArticleMinister Macklin visits MacKillop Family Services
Today, Wednesday 10 April, the Hon. Jenny Macklin MP attended a morning tea at MacKillop Family Services Geelong, with several children and young people with a disability and their parents. The...
View ArticleExpanding the reach of therapeutic foster care
The Victorian Government has made the right decision in directing $91m for vulnerable children with a key investment in therapeutic foster care. “An increase of over $20 million per year to fund out of...
View Article'Open your heart' to fostering - more foster carers needed in New South Wales
Minister for Family and Community Services Pru Goward has launched Fostering NSW, a year-long foster care recruitment and awareness campaign run by the Association of Children’s Welfare Agencies (ACWA)...
View ArticleMacKillop and VACCA launch Koorie Youth Traineeship
To coincide with National Reconciliation Week (27 May – 3 June) MacKillop Family Services and the Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency (VACCA) are delighted to be offering young indigenous people a...
View ArticleKids helping kids in care
This Thursday 6 June, students from Parade College will present MacKillop Family Services with the first of many welcome packs which are being made for children and young people who come in to foster...
View ArticleVictoria’s first heritage display opens at former orphanage
On Thursday 4 July the first heritage display of its kind in Victoria will be opened at the site of the former St Vincent de Paul’s Boys’ orphanage in South Melbourne, now the central base of MacKillop...
View ArticleTwo-thousand and ninety-five teddy bears at the Melbourne Town Hall (but it’s...
Today, Tuesday 20 August, 2095 teddy bears were sitting on the Melbourne Town Hall steps to represent the overwhelming number of children currently in foster care in Victoria.
View ArticleCommunity and church groups call for a more humane approach to people seeking...
Seventy one Catholic organisations and leaders from across the country have joined forces to renounce the immigration policies of both major political parties as inhumane and contrary to Australia’s...
View ArticleMacKillop Family Services awarded federal Community Heritage Grant
MacKillop Family Services has been awarded a $4,000 federal Community Heritage Grant to fund a preservation assessment of our current collection. The grant was announced at the National Library of...
View ArticleMacKillop welcomes child abuse inquiry report
MacKillop Family Services has welcomed the Family and Community Development Committee’s release of its report from the Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry into the Handling of Child Abuse by Religious and...
View ArticleCentral West Play
Maribyrnong City Council in partnership with MacKillop Family Services and Central West has introduced Central West Play, a free facilitated playgroup at Central West shopping centre in Braybrook. The...
View ArticleTackling the sexual exploitation of our children
The revelations regarding organised gangs sexually exploiting young people in residential care is shocking and disturbing. Unfortunately it’s not a new story. For many years agencies like MacKillop...
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