Today's Date: Thursday, August 28, 2008
Child support helps to secure housing for separated family
Child support can help to secure housing for resident parents and their children after relationship breakdown said a research report released this week.
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Education and Training
- Workshop: Protecting Human RIghts: Train-the-Trainer
Friday 26 September 2008 – Dapto, Wollongong
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre will be holding a protecting human rights training in Dapto, Wollongong on Friday 26 September 2008. For those in the Wollongong/Shellharbour or Illawarra region who are interested in getting involved in promoting and protecting human rights, this would be the training for you to attend.Posted:
- One Person at a Time Conference
Thinking Differently - Dreams to Reality
5th and 6th of November, 2008, MelbournePosted:
- CHCAOD6B: Work with clients who are intoxicated.
Competency based Training
Develop the skills to work with clients who are alcohol and/or drug affected, including the provision of assessment, support/monitoring, crisis response and harm minimisation.Posted:
- Rock and Water Training Program
October/November 2008 National Tour
Focus of the 3 Day workshop - How to interact with Boys & Girls through physical-social teachingPosted:
- Physical Activity & Multiple Sclerosis
A professional development program for allied health professionals
Led by the MS Australia physiotherapists and health promotion officer, this program will provide evidence for the benefits of physical activity for people with multiple sclerosis.Posted:
Events and Activities
- Shaping the Climate for Change: Seniors Leading the Way
COTA Victoria Victorian Seniors’ Conference 2008
A Conference for Seniors who want to work for changePosted:
- Textile Exhibition Forum & Market
Textiles Antique and Modern
TIMOR-LESTEPosted:
TEXTILES
EXHIBTION
FORUM & MARKET
EXPLORING MEANINGS, MAKERS AND MARKETS OF TAIS-THE HANDWOVER TEXTILES OF EAST TIMOR
- Righteous Pups Australia Variety Fair
Come along and grab some bargains, while helping to raise funds for the training and placement of Assistance Dogs for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders.Posted:
Plants, Bric-a-brac, Clothing, Books, Crafts, Dog Demonstrations, Sausage Sizzle, Balloons, Face Painting & More
- WetlandCare National Art Competition
A National Art Competition to help celebrate World Wetlands DayPosted:
- A Fifteen Year Photographic Retrospective of Access Arts in The City of Port Phillip
by Paul Dunn
The award winning Access Arts projects and partnerships at the City of Port Phillip are well recognised for their outstanding quality and leadership in the field of disability arts.Posted:
News
- Lead Singer WANTED!
for the BiPolar Bears Band
The Bears are Victoria's best known band of musicians living with mental illness. The band plays a range of classic rock covers and a repertoire of original material covering rock, ska, punk, reggae, blues styles. The Bears are a serious creative and working band, doing up to 60 gigs per year around Melbourne, Victoria and interstate as well as media appearances and recording projects.Posted:
- Child support helps to secure housing for separated family
Child support can help to secure housing for resident parents and their children after relationship breakdown said a research report released this week.Posted:
- The Australian Indegenous population has a younger age structure than the non-Indigenous population: ABS report says
"The Indigenous population has a younger age structure than the non-Indigenous population, with larger proportions of young people and smaller proportions of older people" according to the latest ABS report released this week.Posted:
- Medically Supervised Injecting Centre
The Medically Supervised Injecting Centre Kings Cross is the only supervised injecting centre in Australia.Posted:
- QCOSS Regional Conference 'People, Place and Country'
'Rural, Regional and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ways of Working for Social Justice'. Wednesday 10 September, Townsville.Posted:
Publications and Research
- Expressions of Interest invited
DSARC Research Seminar Series
Expressions of interest are invited from researchers who are interested in contributing to the monthly Research Seminar Series at the Disability Studies and Research Centre, University of New South Wales.Posted:
- National Homeless Information Clearinghouse Launched
Site launched by Minister for Housing Tanya Plibersek
Energetica, an IT consultancy specialist in the not-for profit sector has developed an innovative homelessness website launched last week in Newcastle, by the Minister for Housing, Tanya Plibersek. The site provides information on various aspects of homelessness in order to help tackle this priority social issue in Australia.Posted:
- Train travel 10 times safer than car travel
The risk of serious injury, based on distance travelled, is more than 10 times greater for people travelling by car compared with those travelling by rail, according to a new report released last week by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) and the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government.Posted:
- A new index revealed impacts of soaring fuel and mortgage prices
Soaring fuel cost and interest rate has widened geographical area of vulnerable households according to a new index published today.
“In our earlier study, areas of stress were largely located at the outer suburban mortgage belts where car dependency is high..in this study geographical range of vulnerable households creep inwards “Jago Dodson, one of the Griffith University researchers in the media release.Posted:
- ConnectED Homelessness Video Project
www.connectedhomeless.com
This project seeks to record the narratives (stories, opinions, experiences and views) of people who have experienced homelessness, including rooming house life.Posted:
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