With the 2019 Leadership Intensives off to a flying start this week, our delivery of fancy new Future Social Service Institute banners arrived in the nick of time. Staff were well pleased with the banners, which highlight FSSI’s innovative work in the disability and aged care sectors.
Merle Mitchell has spent her life advocating for other people, so it was a shocking for her to realise how difficult it was to advocate for herself after she moved into a nursing home.
Australian actor Danny Al-Sabbagh added a touch of celebrity to FSSI's Certificate IV Disability students last class. Danny, who has appeared on Australia's Hit TV show Summer Heights High and performed alongside Chris Lily at the TV Week Logies, showed the class some of his dance moves as part...
Only one more sleep until the Building from Strength:transforming systems and improving outcomes together! Our keynote speaker for the Family Safety Victoria event, is Barbara MacQuarrie (right), a Canadian expert on gendered violence. Barbara popped in this morning for a cuppa with our acting Director Paul Ramcharan and Deputy...
If you were one of the many people disappointed by missing out on the forum Disabling Justice: Why the system fails people with disability and mental illness, here is your opportunity to view a captioned video of the event. The forum, a collaboration between the Office of the Public...
FSSI is receiving an increasing number of requests for evaluation work from community sector organisations. As a result, we are looking for people with evaluation experience to join our team, initially on a casual basis, as we continue to build our capacity in this area. For details, or to...
It was when struggling to navigate the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) as a carer for her adult daughter that Amaya Alvarez decided to apply for a PhD scholarship to research the scheme’s impact on mental health carers. ‘When systems of social support change, the implications for families and...
Communications Officer The Victorian Council of Social Service is seeking a qualified person to provide communications and marketing support to the Future Social Service Institute, and general support to the VCOSS communications team. Classification Level 4 (1 to 3) Salary $83, 733 to $89,769 plus superannuation. Status Full Time Reports...
Former Certificate III student Tasha has given FSSI a huge rap in the 26/2/19 edition of the Whittlesea Leader.
Forum participants: Justen Thomas, Paul Ramcharan, Deborah Glass, Colleen Pearce and Rob Hulls. Victorian prisons have become 21st Century asylums, according to the Director of the Centre for Innovative Justice, and former Attorney-General, Rob Hulls. Mr Hulls was speaking at a forum on disability and justice hosted by the Office...