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Geelong Football Club applauded for its decision to reduce gambling harm

Catholic Social Services Victoria applauds the Geelong Football Club’s decision to free itself of gambling-related revenue, a decision that is aligned with the club’s values and principles of community enhancement, and which follows an earlier move by the North Melbourne Football Club.
We have sent letters to all AFL Victorian team presidents/chairmen encouraging them to move down a path of joining Geelong and the Kangaroos in withdrawing from gambling-related revenue, through either gambling venues or advertising revenue.

The Victorian Government has initiated a number of social investment bonds as an innovative way of assisting vulnerable Victorians. Members and friends are invited to join Teresa Fels, Director of Social Policy in the Victorian Department of Treasury and Finance, and Catherine Harris, General Manager, Business Development, at Sacred Heart Mission, to explore this program at a breakfast briefing at 7.30am on Wednesday 3 April.

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Twenty five people gathered at Catholic Social Services Victoria in East Melbourne on Thursday morning 14 March 2019 to listen and reflect on the continuing journey of Aboriginal Reconciliation across the member organisations of CSSV. Proceedings opened with an informative and challenging address from Jill Gallagher AO, the current Victorian Treaty Advancement Commissioner.

On Saturday 23 March 2019, Catholic Social Services Victoria is hosting a parish forum on the topic, Helping our Refugee Families and Friends at the Cardinal Knox Centre, East Melbourne, 9.30am-1pm. This follows the very successful parish forum on the same topic held in August in 2018, focussing on how parishes can transform their desire to help asylum seekers and refugees into practical action. Book your place here.