Foundation House
The home of The Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture
6 Gardiner Street
Brunswick, 3056
Ph: (03) 9388 0022
Fax:(03) 9387 0828
Email: info@foundationhouse.org.au
www.foundationhouse.org.au
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Message from the Chair, Lynne Haultain
After an 18-month hiatus, the Foundation House e-newsletter, HouseNotes, is back, bigger and better than ever!
As usual, the Foundation has been a hive of activity and we have much to share with you. We were thrilled to have the Premier of Victoria, The Hon Ted Baillieu MLA, as the special guest speaker at our end of year celebration last December.
Mr Baillieu praised the “exceptional talent” of the hard-working people at Foundation House and their commitment to the “common good”. I believe it is this decency and talent that ensured our more than 4,000 clients last year received the very best services and support from our organisation.
Mr Baillieu also launched the updated edition of School’s In for Refugees and presented the 2011 Quentin Buckle Study Grant Award recipients with their awards.
Our 2010–2011 Annual Report is also now available online for your reading pleasure (see story below). It includes a summary of the past 12 months’ activities, from orations and events, new reports, submissions, partnerships and programs, to moving interviews with three of our younger clients—all of whom are hoping for a better future than their past.
I would also like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the years of commitment and support we received from Kathleen Walsh, who retired from the Board of Management last year. We also farewelled three of our patrons: Professor Max Charlesworth AO, Professor David Penington AC, and David Scott AO. We offer our sincere gratitude to these very special individuals for their generous participation and commitment to the Foundation.
May 2012 bring peace and safe refuge to all those who need it.
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Diary Dates
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Foundation House continues to provide professional development opportunities to education, health and community services as part of a broader objective to build the capacity of these sectors to better..
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In this Edition
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The Premier of Victoria, The Hon Ted Baillieu MLA, was the special guest speaker at the Foundation’s end of year celebration on December 15th 2011.
Mr Baillieu also launched the updated ed..
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The 2010–2011 Foundation House Annual Report is now available for reading and/or download online.
As well as updates on our various services, programs and research activities, there is a p..
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Australia’s human rights protection will be strengthened in April with the implementation of a system of ‘complementary protection’ for people who are not refugees but face torture, ..
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The Federal Government will allow some refugee and asylum seekers who have arrived by boat to live in the community on bridging visas while their refugee claims are assessed.
In his announcement..
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Foundation House’s ‘School’s In for Refugees: A whole-school approach to supporting students of refugee background’ (2011) has been updated and is now available on the Foundati..
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The Forum of Australian Services for Survivors of Torture and Trauma (FASSTT), of which Foundation House is the member agency in Victoria, has made a submission to an inquiry into Australia’s im..
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Foundation House hosted a forum to discuss how refugee children and young people in Victoria are faring.
Taking place on October 18th, 2011, the forum “unpacked” the key findings fro..
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Foundation House has raised more than $7,000 for Char Horish, a needy school in Bangladesh.
A film night fundraiser held at Carlton’s Cinema Nova in November 2011attracted approximately 20..
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The Foundation’s Guy Coffey has published an opinion piece on the disturbing effects of detention on refugees and asylum seekers.
Guy, a clinical psychologist and lawyer, has conducted psy..
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Foundation House project coordinator, Kath Cooney, was presented with a Victorian Multicultural Award for Excellence at a ceremony hosted by Alex Chernov, Governor of Victoria, and held at Government ..
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Foundation House’s Ida Kaplan and Colleen McFarlane, along with the University of Melbourne’s Jeanette Lawrence, have published a paper entitled “Psychosocial indicators of wellbeing..
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The latest Quentin Buckle Study Grant recipients were announced at the Foundation’s end of year celebration on December 15th, 2011.
Five highly appreciative and very worthy recipients were..
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Roslyn Leary, Manager of the Foundation House South East Program team, spent 12 weeks in Cairo and Salloum in Egypt last year as a Refugee Status Determination Officer (RSDO) with UNHCR.
Roslyn ..
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Five members of an Afghan Advisory Group auspiced by the Foundation House Dandenong office have joined the fight against family violence by becoming ambassadors for White Ribbon Day.
White Ribbo..
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In 2011 the Victorian Refugee Health Network (VRHN) continued its work to engage and build the capacity of primary healthcare providers along with rekindling work focusing on improving the accessibili..
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A collection of stories from the Afghan, Karen and Sudanese communities about experiences of depression are now available online.
‘Universal Stories of Healing from Depression’ has b..
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The Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) has dispelled information contained in an email circulating late last year and entitled: “The truth about boat people”.
A DIAC sp..
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