This week Uniting launched a bold new initiative in conjunction with Anti-Poverty Week. Uniting IdeasGen invites high school and university students to submit ideas that will inspire other young people from their generation to finish Year 12. At Uniting, we believe that every young person has...
This is an edited version of an article by Megan Goodsell (pictured above), which first appeared on her own blog, My Own Clarity, in August 2016. My name is Megan Goodsell and I recently started a new job. I’m a Youth Worker with Uniting Burnside Youth...
The residents of Uniting Starrett Lodge in Hamlyn Terrace, have written a book of tales and titbits about the times they grew up in. In The Lives We Lived they write about the adventures they had at school and as teenagers, life during the war...
“I can’t believe where the year has gone!” “I wish there were more hours in the day” “I’ve been so busy lately” If you’re one of the many people who feel that life is travelling at a frantic pace, the chances are high that you’ve probably used one...
Hands up if you’ve had a fall and injured yourself at some point in your life? If you’ve raised your hand, you’re like most of us! That’s right, we all know how easy it is to trip or lose your balance and fall, whether it’s at...
In 2015, funds raised through the Uniting Winter Appeal made a real difference in the lives of children with a disability who were living in Out-of-Home Care across New South Wales. The Uniting Out-of-Home Care programs offer a range of short and long term care...
Today, for the first time in history, most people can expect to live into their 60s and beyond. This is great news, and not just for individuals, because all of society benefits from these years of knowledge and wisdom. But if we are going to...
This contribution was first published in the June/July edition of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians' quarterly magazine. This morning I had an eye opening conversation with a client that has prompted me, yet again, to think about just what it is that we do here. It...
Mary reflects on her 92 years of friendships, family and travel, and talks about how getting older and moving into aged care is how she discovered herself and found the happiest days of her life. I was born in a tent in a sugarcane plantation in...
When people in the LGBTI community reach an age where they might need some support in their day-to-day lives and are thinking about making the move into aged care, it can bring up deep fears about acceptance and discrimination. Because people coming into care are...
