At the end of last year we said goodbye to Hand Brake Turn Manager Ian Dubbeld, who is moving on to a new season after three years developing and building the program across our north-west and south-east metropolitan Melbourne sites.
We were delighted to welcome David Eldridge AM back on to the Concern Australia Board as Board Chair in February 2018. His connection with the Concern Australia story goes back much longer. He served on the Board in the late 1990s, and was a member of our Advisory Group [...]
Rebecca Taggart is an experienced youth worker who has been with Concern Australia for the past year. She started working across both our Hand Brake Turn and Inside Out programs, and now is a full-time case worker in the Projects & Innovation team for Inside Out. This team [...]
A Mother's love and resilience We were inspired to hear Sharon's story, a mother of a LiveWires participant, who has faced adversity with strength and resilience. Sharon grew up in Country Victoria, born in Benalla. A lot of her 20s and early 30s was spent travelling [...]
To commemorate Youth Week, Concern Australia would like to highlight profiles of two inspiring young men. It was a beautiful sunny day when Nathan randomly dropped into Hand Brake Turn to say g’day and have a chat to a couple of his old trainers. We took [...]
Concern Australia Board, Staff and Volunteers were deeply saddened to hear of the recent passing of Rev Dr John Smith, the founder of Concern Australia (previously Care & Communication Concern), the founding President of the God’s Squad Christian Motorcycle Club, Melbourne, Truth & Liberation Concern and St Martin’s [...]
Pictured: Tara Reid next to her husband Stephen. As a strong advocate for the welfare of others, Tara has volunteered and been involved with many organisations to support their efforts to meet the needs of those most vulnerable. She has served on the board of Baptist World Aid, been a [...]
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 [...]
