OA&TSIA and ACTCOSS have compiled a calendar of NAIDOC Week events being held in the ACT. Download the calendar
News
Here you'll find news about ACTCOSS activities and major community sector news.
For more news from the community sector, check out our Weekly Community Sector eNotices.
Health & wellbeing in the workplace: Director's update
1 July 2016
Read about health and wellbeing in the community sector -- related research, tools for employees and employers, and what employers can do to improve.
New journal: Working with Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples & communities
30 June 2016
We've released Issue 76 of our quarterly journal Update. Read about working with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples and communities. Read the journal
Anti-Poverty Week, 16-22 Oct 2016: Help Reduce Poverty!
17 June 2016
As part of the ACT Anti-Poverty Week Facilitating Group, ACTCOSS encourages individuals and organisations to organise or take part in an Anti-Poverty Week activity that aims to highlight or overcome issues of poverty and hardship here in the ACT, Australia or overseas.
Inquiry into Competition, Contestability and Informed User Choice in Human Services: Stage 1 Issues Paper Released
17 June 2016
The Productivity Commission is holding a public inquiry into the increased application of competition, contestability and informed user choice to human services. ACTCOSS encourages ACT service providers, consumers, and advocacy groups to engage in this discussion and have your voices heard.
ACT State of the Community Sector Survey (Coming Soon)
17 June 2016
In support of the next steps for the Industry Plan, ACTCOSS is commissioning the Social Policy Research Centre (SPRC) at the University of New South Wales to conduct an ACT State of the Community Sector Survey.
ACT Community Services Industry Plan Update - June 2016
17 June 2016
KPMG will be concluding their consultations on the ACT Community Services Industry Plan this week and will soon be producing a final draft of the plan.
ACT 2016-17 Budget Snapshot now available
9 June 2016
ACTCOSS has today released its annual Budget Snapshot for the community sector.
Media release: ACT Budget invests to turn off the tap on drivers of inequality
7 June 2016
The ACT Council of Social Service supports the overall direction of the ACT Budget for 2016-17 announced today. New funding to respond better to the needs of people exposed to domestic and family violence, more funding for mental health, drug and alcohol treatment, emergency and trauma health services, justice programs and well targeted...
Celebrating NAIDOC Week: 3-10 July 2016
26 May 2016
Read about how you and your organisation can promote and celebrate NAIDOC Week.