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McAuley Community Services for Women update

Member organisation McAuley Community Services for Women provides accommodation, services, advocacy and support for women who are homeless and, women and their accompanying children who experience family violence. In 2016-2017 McAuley supported 742 women and their children to rebuild their lives and have safer, brighter futures. Read more about the work of, and issues impacting McAuley Community Services in its latest newsletter, here.

As part of our national Catholic social services conference, Hearing Healing Hope (from 21-23 February in Melbourne), Fr Frank Brennan SJ AO will be hosting a Masterclass on Pope Francis and Human Rights - Moving Justice and Solidarity from the Dictionary to the Workplace of Catholic Social Services. The Masterclass is open to everybody (not just conference participants!) On Friday 23 February 2018 at Catholic Leadership Centre, 576 Victoria Parade, East Melbourne, from 2pm - 4pm. Cost is $100.

Book your place at the Masterclass here. | Enquiries: lucia.brick@css.org.au or phone (03) 9287 5566

The upcoming national Catholic social services conference, Hearing Healing Hope (21-23 February 2018) aims to provide a space and opportunity for those working or volunteering in Catholic social services, to gather to reflect, discuss and plan the way forward for our for ourselves as individuals, as organisations, and as a sector. Social service organisations are an outstanding example of the Catholic church in action in Australia, however we face many challenges in our quest to respond to the signs of the times, and to be beacons of healing and hope - Friday's series of forums aim to address this question in particular. Participants can choose from a variety of workshops and main forums.

View the full program, here

Online registrations have now closed. For any registration queries, please email Lucia.Brick@css.org.au

A range of important workshops that focus on the various issues facing the Catholic social services sector have been implemented at our upcoming national conference, Hearing Healing Hope (21-23 February 2018 at the Catholic Leadership Centre in East Melbourne). People can attend the conference as a whole, or attend just the workshops session on the Thursday afternoon (for $100). The full program can be viewed here, however, below is an outline of the workshops on offer. ONLINE BOOKINGS HAVE NOW CLOSED.