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World Social Work Day was held on March 19. This year’s theme ‘Buen Vivir: Shared Future for Transformative Change’, speaks to the important role of social work in both meeting the needs of individual persons as well as the importance of this work positively changing society and systems so that all may flourish.
Catholic Social Services Victoria’s report Faith, Hope and Love maps out the work of its 40 member organisations in communities across Victoria and beyond, and discusses the importance of participative approaches, the vital role for cross-sector and values-based approaches, and the need for community/place-based service provision and empowerment.
The Faith, Hope and Love report finds that Victoria’s Catholic social service organisations supported at least 302,550 people – more than 4.5% of Victoria’s population, through the efforts of 7,510 staff and more than 15,800 volunteers. These organisations provided services in over 30 different areas of work: from early intervention and prevention to crisis response.
The State and Federal Governments provided almost 67% of total revenue across organisations, with creative resourcing strategies, including community donations and the effective integration of volunteer support, also contributing substantially to organisational operational and financial sustainability.
