This COVID-19 update features a video message from our CEO Julie Edwards. In her video, Julie reflects on several ways she's enjoyed connecting with staff and teams in recent weeks. Julie also discusses the important role hope is playing in her life at the moment. Through this continued challenging time, Julie invites us to stay hopeful. 

The Australian Capital Territory has paved the way for other states and territories to provide age appropriate responses to children in trouble, following its Legislative Assembly voting to raise the age of legal responsibility from 10 to 14 years.

It is the first Australian state or territory to commit to changing its laws to ensure primary school aged children are not incarcerated, after the Council of Attorneys-General decided last month to defer recommendations about the issue. Read the full media release here.

You can help get other states to follow suit by emailing your local MP with a letter prepared by our #WorthASecondChance campaign.

Free, family-friendly Zero-Waste Cooking on a Budget class with The Ecological Justice Hub's resident Chef, Johnny Hasan!

Not to be confused with Jesuit Community College's Zero Waste Cooking & Sustainability  course, this one-off, two-hour online class (held on Zoom) is free, family-friendly and does not require formal enrolment. This event is part of a series hosted by Moreland City Council and the Ecological Justice Hub.

Make sure you register by Monday, August 24th to receive the list of ingredients to follow along from home! Visit the Facebook event page here for registration details or email ecojusticehub@jss.org.au.

That's a Wrap.. Party! 

Artful Dodgers Studios and the producers of their podcast, Braided, invite you to join them this Friday 21st August at 7pm on Zoom to celebrate the people, connections and experiences that have woven together to make Braided Season 2. This is a public event so feel free to share this invitation:

Meeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4620939464?pwd=RTIyZkdUVW5SVHVkSHZRMlZPcTFzdz09

Meeting ID: 462 093 9464

Passcode: Braided

#WorthASecondChance hosts impactful Trauma Informed Practice webinar

Co-hosted by #WorthASecondChance Campaign Manager, Jess Sanders, and General Manager of Strategic Communication and Engagement, Andrew Yule, this webinar welcomed almost 200 guests and a panel of experienced practitioners to discuss their experiences and perspectives on working with young people through trauma informed practice. Panelists emphasised the power of relationships to transform a young person’s life and highlighted the importance of making spaces for young people to feel safe and supported in all areas of working with young people.

Megaphone Lunch rocks out online

Last Thursday, Artful Dodgers Studios welcomed us to Volume 1 of Megaphone: Streaming Edition. From homes and private spaces all over, fans of the Studios' artists were able to enjoy back-to-back performances from Nynno, Aaron B, The Desolettes and Kanaani. Megaphone: Streaming Edition is keeping its artists and supporters connected while we can't do so in-person.

Coming soon: recording of Volume 1 and details on Volume 2!

The Northern Territory Opposition plans to reintroduce the offence of breach of bail for young people and legislate a presumption against bail. This will ultimately harm, not help, vulnerable young people. Read more here.

Jesuit Social Services joined more than 50 business, Indigenous, health and community organisations to urge parties to commit to legislate for climate action ahead of Saturday’s Northern Territory election. Read more at The Canberra Times.

Southern Peninsula News covered our upcoming training sessions with boys and men in the area to help people challenge unhealthy masculinities. This project, funded by VicHealth, will follow the findings of our recent Unpacking the Man Box report. Read more here. 

Elle Jackson, Manager – Justice Programs in the Northern Territory, had a letter published in the NT News urging the incoming Territory government to focus on giving our children and young people the best chance to flourish. “Harsher sentencing, youth curfews and a corrections-based model have failed children in the Territory, and other jurisdictions, time and time again,” she writes. See full letter here.

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