April 15 saw the annual National Youth Homelessness Matters Day (YHMD) marked by many across the country. We hosted an event, a Webinar and morning tea, to mark the day, staff coming together at La Valla and online. Last year, across the 12 months, Marist180 supported 192 young people through our Specialist Homelessness Services (SHS). In August 2021, when the last census was taken, there was 1601 people who were homeless in the Blacktown local government area. And around a t

The Marist pilgrimage groups of 2024 and 2025 were blessed in many ways! One of these blessings was being pilgrims in the footsteps of St Paul, travelling to places in modern day Greece and Türkiye, and savouring places, people and experiences that shaped the foundations of modern Christianity and contemporary Marist life. One especially memorable aspect of the pilgrimage was the renewal of our Baptismal vows, at the same sight, Lydia, the first European Christian, was baptiz

Some three years ago, our team at Daramu recognised a need-that many local young First Nations people were not accessing the range of services and programs available to them, designed for them, to thrive. One element of this was limited knowledge regarding systems and services; another was some level of reluctance or suspicion in relation to government and/or institutional providers. To this end, a bi-monthly hub was established, where a range of service providers-government