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Invest in your future during Mental Health Month
October marks Mental Health Month, a project driven by the Mental Health Foundation Australia (MHFA). It aims to raise awareness and promote discussion around mental health issues, with the ultimate goal of educating and reducing the stigma associated with this branch of health and wellbeing.
Tips to boost mental health
As we approach October, it’s important to take some time and recognise Mental Health Month. Mental Health Month is celebrated each year in the month of October in NSW.
Is foster care right for you?
There are approximately 46,000 children in out of home care in Australia, which is an increase from 43,100 in 2017. Some of these children get placed with a relative, but a good percentage require foster care.
Benefits of our preschool programs
In 2020, well over 300,000 children in Australia aged 4 or 5 years old were enrolled in a preschool program. This is an overwhelming majority, but there are still some eligible children that miss out on the many benefits of preschool.
Marking Homelessness Week 2021 – supports for people across our Diocese experiencing homelessness
On any given night, 116,000 people in Australia are experiencing homelessness. Homelessness is not ‘rooflessness’. Only 7% of people without a home are sleeping rough.
Celebrating International Friendship Day
As we approach International Friendship Day on 30 July, it’s important to think about the value of true friendships. What does it mean to be a friend and to have a friend?
Learn more about our financial counselling and emergency relief programs
Throughout Australia, housing prices are on a sharp increase. In fact, the Commonwealth Bank forecasts that housing prices will continue to go up by 16% over the next two years due to the housing market boom.
Counselling – what is it and how can it help?
The topics of therapy and counselling can be difficult for a lot of people to broach. Maybe you're not sure what each entails, or you're unsure about this path and if these services will work for you.
It’s Men’s Health Week – valuable lessons to help you get active, get healthy & live longer
Men's Health Week is here, and it’s a perfect time to really start focusing on your physical health. Maybe you need a push to get you motivated, you're not sure what resources are available or you’re someone who wants to get help getting fit but you don’t know where to start.
CatholicCare’s friendship program ending social isolation for our seniors
Kathleen Herz knows what it feels like to be lonely, following the death of her husband some years ago, and it was this experience which prompted her to fill that gap for others by volunteering with CatholicCare Diocese of Broken Bay’s Community Visitors Scheme. “When I lost my husband, I realised how lonely it was for people being by themselves,” she says.
CatholicCare refuge changing lives for women experiencing domestic violence
Imagine coming to Australia from another country with your husband and two young children, only to find yourself living in fear from domestic violence, with nowhere to turn, no income, unable to speak the language and seemingly no way out. This was the situation for Farida and her children before she found the safety and support of a CatholicCare women’s refuge, which she says has changed her life.
Roz opens her home to a sibling group in need
With two happy and healthy grown daughters of her own, Central Coast foster carer Roz felt drawn to help other children from more difficult backgrounds to experience a loving, stable home. Roz began fostering almost 20 years ago when she took part in a short-term respite program with the Department of Community Services.