30 November 2018The group of 12 volunteers from the Wellington Beyond Barbed Wire Volunteer Mentors has been selected as the 2018 NSW Volunteer Team of the Year for their support for mothers who are in or have been released from prison.
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This week in Federal Parliament, the Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs tabled its report "Breaking barriers: a national adoption framework for Australian children".
Read more - 30 November 2018
Barnardos is pleased to announce the Beyond Barbed Wire Volunteer Mentors have been awarded the 2018 NSW Volunteer Team of the Year for their support for mothers who are in or have been released from gaol.
Read more - 21 November 2018
GIVIT NSW drought-relief manager Scott Barrett was in Nyngan to present a donation to Barnardos for their breakfast program, on behalf of AGL.
Read more - 20 November 2018
Bernadette Black from Blackmans Bay was announced as the 2019 Tasmania Australian of the Year for her work as an Advocate for teenage parents, during a ceremony at Government House on Friday, November 16.
Read more - 13 November 2018
Mum-of-eight describes the heartbreak of waiting for adoption, and why we need to make these things happen much faster for the sake of the children.
Read more - 12 November 2018
Barnardos Australia congratulates Yerin Eleanor Duncan Aboriginal Health Services on the launch of Ngaliya, ‘We – you & I’, a new permanency support service for vulnerable Aboriginal children and young people on the NSW Central Coast.
Read more - 24 October 2018
Barnardos Australia has welcomed the NSW government’s planned introduction of a landmark child protection bill into parliament this week.
Read more - 23 October 2018
Barnardos Canberra was in need of some outdoor furniture for family contact visits
Read more - 22 October 2018
Barnardos Australia welcomes today’s National Apology to Victims and Survivors of Institutional Sexual Abuse, delivered by the Hon. Scott Morrison, Prime Minister of Australia.
Read more - 21 September 2018
THEY take children in when family life is at its most difficult, so Barnardos Orange has made sure their carers in turn are cared for.
Read more - 13 September 2018
Barnardos foster carer Jenny talks
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Hotel Centennial lunch raises funds for Barnardos.
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- 11 September 2018
FOSTERING has changed the life of local resident Frances, as well as changing the lives of those she has cared for.
Read more - 11 September 2018
ABC interview with TFC carer Heather Carpenter for Foster Care Week 2018.
Read more - 09 September 2018
ACT Together foster carers Luke and Aimee share their story for foster care week
Read more - 07 September 2018
Barnardos Find-A-Family permanent foster carer Margaret shares her story for Foster Care Week 2018.
Read more - 07 September 2018
Barnardos Temporary Foster Carer Gale shares her foster care insights for Foster Care Week 2018
Read more - 29 August 2018
Fleur Stubbs from Barnardos assisted in Warren Central School’s mentoring program - a bridge between university and high school – guiding Indigenous students to aspire to finish school, head to university or full time employment.
Read more - 28 August 2018
A team from Barnardos Auburn worked together with Westpac Auburn branch holding a sausage sizzle to raise more than $2,500 for farmers last week.
Read more - 13 August 2018
A bipartisan group of MPs will form a new group aimed at reviving cross-party support to make the adoption process for parents faster and simpler.
Read more - 09 August 2018
It means 'welcome' in Awabakal, and that's exactly how everyone is made to feel at Waratah West Public School's Yalla Cafe.
Read more - 08 August 2018
28,191 people are experiencing homelessness in New South Wales. As of right now. Barnardos Australia is one of the many organisations working to decrease that number during homelessness week...
Read more - 07 August 2018
Noelene Lever sees everyone as family. The children she has fostered, her own children and the people she has met through the course of her life. She doesn’t treat anyone differently. She just loves them.
Read more - 04 August 2018
AIHW research released this week for Homelessness Week indicates domestic violence is driving more women to homelessness - for people aged 15 to 34, women who experienced domestic violence are more likely than men to be homeless.
Read more - 01 August 2018
The message was clear on the Old Illawarra Road: domestic and family violence in the Southern Highlands will not be tolerated.
Read more - 01 August 2018
See how Barnardos South Coast celebrated NAIDOC Week 2018, bringing the community together to celebrate family, culture and identity.
Read more - 11 July 2018
THE immensely popular NAIDOC Family Fun Day returned to Warrawong on Tuesday.
Read more - 09 July 2018
On the eve of NAIDOC week, these young indigenous achievers are already making their mark. Samantha Harris, 27.
There’s a difference between being a model and being a role model, but Samantha Harris has them both covered.
Read more - 05 July 2018
Amanda Richter is no stranger to publicity, having won the Tasmanian Barnardos Mother of the Year title in 2016, and now she is looking to take on another public role, running for councillor in the upcoming Huon Valley Council local government elections as a voice for those who live with a disability.
Read more - 03 July 2018
Barnardos supports the National Redress Scheme to provide support to people who experienced institutional child sexual abuse.
Applications for the National Redress Scheme can be made from 1 July 2018.
Read more - 03 July 2018
BURYING a time capsule in 1995, Barnardos for it to be found in 2005 but only stumbled across it by accident recently - some 23 years later.
Read more - 25 June 2018
There are concerns Australia's past with the stolen generation has led to low adoption rates and a looming crisis of children in care. Now a parliamentary committee is examining whether a national framework is needed to improve those rates and make it easier to adopt children who could be at risk. More than 100 submissions have been made following concerns the care system is bulging at the seams.
Read more - 25 June 2018
A childless man has left his entire estate to a national children’s charity.
Read more - 24 June 2018
A Music event at Dubbo presented by young people attracted a capacity crowd on Saturday night.
Read more - 22 June 2018
New research on sibling co-placement and contact in permanent care, from the Institute of Open Adoption Studies in partnership with Barnardos.
Read more - 21 June 2018
Barnardos ACT is the third local community organisation to receive a 5.4kW rooftop solar panel system from ActewAGL through its solar grants program. The gesture is expected to save the children’s charity $1000 a year.
Read more - 29 May 2018
FOUR social work students from the University of NSW (UNSW) joined Barnardos Long Day Care Centre at Auburn to celebrate National Families Week (May 15-21).
Read more - 28 May 2018
When Noelene Lever speaks of her family, her face lights up with pride. Not only has the widowed mum raised five children of her own, she’s been an unofficial foster mum to 50 others.
Read more - 24 May 2018
National Sorry Day is an important day for Australia’s First Peoples and for Barnardos. On this day we will take time to recognise Australia’s Stolen Generations and the trauma caused by forced removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families and communities.
Read more - 14 May 2018
I never thought I would go on to be named the national Barnardos Mother of the Year 2018, a humble Noelene Lever said following the announcement earlier this week.
Read more - 10 May 2018
Just in time for Mother’s Day this Sunday, Barnardos Australia and ALDI are pleased to announce Noelene Lever from Forster, New South Wales has been named the national Barnardos Mother of the Year 2018, proudly supported by ALDI.
Read more - 08 May 2018
‘Beyond Barbed Wire’ program delivering dramatic, positive results
Read more - 08 May 2018
Launch of Beyond Barbed Wire Evaluation Report by Western Research Institute on 3 May 2018 in Wellington.
A programme assisting mothers behind bars in the Central West has reduced the number of women reoffending. Participants are matched with a mentor to assist with their transition back into the community and empower them to create a stable life for their family. Only 7% have reoffended after the programme compared to 43% for Australian women.
Read more - 08 May 2018
Women leaving prison are less likely to re-offend with the support of a specialised program. However, it needs Government funding to continue. With Indigenous women 15 times more likely to be in prison, the program is especially beneficial in Aboriginal communities. Emily Falson is a mentor for Beyond Barbed Wire, a program aiming to stop women reoffending after leaving prison.
Read more - 08 May 2018
Launch of Beyond Barbed Wire Evaluation Report by Western Research Institute on 3 May 2018 in Wellington.
Read more - 20 April 2018
Barnardos Australia is pleased to announce Sarah Baillie from Port Lincoln, South Australia, has been named Barnardos Mother of the Year SA 2018.
Sarah Baillie, 39, had a “rough childhood” and was living hand-to-mouth, when she made the courageous decision to take the steps required to give her children a better life.
Read more - 20 April 2018
NOTHING about Sarah Baillie’s childhood was easy.
Read more - 19 April 2018
Burnie grandmother Joan Bellinger has been named the Tasmanian Barnardos Mother of the Year.
Read more - 19 April 2018
TASMANIA'S new mother of the year had no idea she had even been nominated for the award until she got the phone call from Barnardos — and then she thought the charity just wanted a donation.
Read more - 18 April 2018
Cindy Rigby, 61, is a superwoman who came to the rescue of more than 90 foster children, in addition to raising two sons of her own. Some of Cindy’s foster children stayed in her care for a couple of days, a month or two, or a few years. Others, like her nominator, Hayley Barber, 20, never left her side – nor did they want to.
Read more - 18 April 2018
A BRISBANE grandmother who has devoted two decades to fostering more than 90 children has been named Queensland’s Barnardos Mother of the Year.
Read more - 17 April 2018
Barnardos Australia is pleased to announce Noelene Lever from Forster, New South Wales, has been named Barnardos Mother of the Year NSW 2018.
Read more - 17 April 2018
Noelene Lever was in her mid-30s with five young children when her husband was killed in a car accident.
But this invincible Aboriginal woman from the New South Wales' north coast went on to foster more than 50 foster children in a home where she says "her door never closes".
Read more - 17 April 2018
ABORIGINAL mum Noelene Lever who has informally fostered more than 50 children has been named Barnardos Mother of the Year NSW 2018.
Read more - 17 April 2018
Noelene Lever has been awarded as Barnardos Mother of the Year NSW 2018 as she cared for 50 children in her life.
Read more - 16 April 2018
Barnardos Australia is pleased to announce Snjezana (Sue) Brcic from Frankston, Victoria, has been named Barnardos Mother of the Year VIC 2018.
Read more - 16 April 2018
Sue Brcic has been named as Barnardos Victorian Mother of the Year. She was recognised for her community work and resilience after escaping one of the world's most brutal conflicts.
Read more - 15 April 2018
NEARLY 20 years since immigrating to Melbourne, Snjezanna Brcic is being recognised as a pillar of strength to her family and community.
Mrs Brcic, 50, has been named as the Barnardos mother of the year for her incredibly generous spirit.
Read more - 14 March 2018
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse released its final report on Friday 15 December 2017.
Read more - 05 March 2018
Congratulations Selai Storer of Barnardos Warrawong on being awarded the 2018 Illawarra International Women's Day scholarship.
Illawarra Mercury
Read more - 26 February 2018
Fifty years is a long time spent fundraising, but that’s exactly from the Blackheath & District Barnardos Helpers Guild is about to celebrate.
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- 13 February 2018
Ten years on from the National Apology, Barnardos staff reflect on what this moment meant to them and how the legacy of the Stolen Generation still affects families today.
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