We are proud to reveal we have been working behind the scenes on a new pilot project to greater enhance childrenâs health, education and wellbeing through a new partnership with Dresden Optics.  When our CEO, Michelle Crawford, was informed by a colleague about a pilot mobile optometry workshop on [...]
Pictured: Jenny Cincotta, Inside Out Youth Worker Jenny first began at Concern Australia in 2016 as a student placement and ongoing volunteer in LiveWires before completing her second student placement within Inside Out in 2017. Jenny volunteering at LiveWires Holiday Program. She volunteered in crowdfunding initiatives, caring for children, running [...]
We were thrilled to hold a Creative Arts Day on 27 June 2018 for LiveWires participants, families and local community members. Thanks to generous support from our sponsors ANZ Staff Foundation and CUA Bank we were able to run two expressive arts projects. Our HipHopHope project, in partnership [...]
Pictured:Â Yahye Ali - Hand Brake Turn Workshop Coordinator We are proud to welcome Yahye Ali to Concern Australia as our new Workshop Coordinator for Hand Brake Turn â North West. Ali comes with a wealth of automotive experience, having studied automotive engineering in New Zealand, after moving [...]
Pictured:Â LiveWires participants with Koori facepaint designs at Federation Square. Feeling included at LiveWires Imagine being spat on as you travel up the lift of where you live. Imagine being told, every day, to âGo back to where you come from.â That is what is happening right [...]
Pictured:Â Edward Chirenda, Inside Out Live-in Mentor When a friend told Edy about the Inside Out Live-In Mentor program it really appealed to him as a way he could live out his faith. "It's important to help people within the community, as part of "loving your neighbour" doing [...]
We are proud to know that Anne Mitchell, Program Manager of Steps Outreach Service, is still being recognised across Australia on our television screens. She is being congratulated due to winning the âUnsung Heroâ category of the HESTA National Community Sector Awards. Watch her story now in 90 seconds. [...]
Anita Boulter, a volunteer with our Steps Outreach Service has a strong heart and passion for volunteering.  As a 60 year old mother of two daughters and a son, and with two granddaughters who she helps care for each week, Anita has volunteered throughout her lifetime helping with schools and [...]
Anne Attard is the Queen of the Kitchen at LiveWires. Each week she teaches a group of children how to cook pasta, lasagne, potatoes and dumplings â while also letting them scrape the bowl and taste left-overs of brownies, slices, muffins and goodies they've baked. She began volunteering [...]
Paul has been volunteering with Hand Brake Turn for nine months. He came to Australia a year ago as a refugee from Iran, after spending four years in Indonesia. Paul hopes to join the Victorian Police Force in the future to make a positive impact on wellbeing and safety in [...]
