UNDA PhD researcher Dr Anne Poelina has won a top international award from the Women’s World Summit Foundation (WWSF).

The St Vincent De Paul Society have encouraged Perth parents to imagine what it would feel like to not be able to provide a happy Christmas for children.

Surgeons at St John of God Murdoch Hospital have embarked on a study seeing patients pedalling on bicycles to test recovery after knee surgery.

The Centre for Faith Enrichment (CFE) will this month be taking a look at the 500 years since the beginning of the Protestant Reformation by hosting a daytime and evening course. CFE Director Dr Marco Ceccarelli, stated that understanding the history of the Reformation is significantly important.

With the 2017 RCIA State Conference held at Morley Parish on Saturday 21 October, RCIA State Director Karen Hart spoke with The eRecord about her talk at the conference exploring the Mystagogia and her hopes for the future of the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA). By Josh Low.

Personal Advocacy Service (PAS) seeks to enrich the lives of people with an intellectual disability. Established in 1989, the agency has worked tirelessly over the years to raise spiritual awareness and foster a sense of wellbeing for people with disability.
Staying true to its mission to provide opportunities for people with intellectual disabilities to be included in community life, by pairing them with a catechist volunteer or ‘advocate’ with whom they can develop a meaningful friendship, PAS also promotes spiritual development for those with intellectual disabilities and their integration into parish communities. By Natashya Fernandez.

Established in 1966 as Southern Cross Homes, and as a not-for-profit as Southern Cross Care (WA) Inc., (SCC) in 1968, the organisation has now developed into one of the largest and leading aged care providers in Western Australia.
Originally founded thanks to the vision and drive of a group of men from the Order of the Knights of the Southern Cross, SCC currently runs seven retirement villages across Perth, together with eight aged care homes and a ninth on the way.

Catholic Homes is a Christian-based not-for-profit organisation who have been caring for Western Australians as they age for more than 50 years. Their care model ‘Care with Purpose’, is based on Montessori principles. The aim is to encourage people to remain active and busy for as long as possible, whilst continuing to do the things that bring them joy.

Such an innovative and proactive approach to care earned it two Better Practice Awards in 2015 for its care model and the Circle of Men project – a support and social group for men in aged care.

With multiple factors currently contributing to an increase in homelessness, among other social issues, the work of Daydawn Advocacy Centre in advocating for, and supporting, society’s most vulnerable, is more important than ever, according to its Director, Mark Reidy. By Caroline Smith.

Providing a wide range of social and professional services to people across from metropolitan Perth to the Goldfields and the South West is an impressive task, but one which Centrecare Incorporated (Inc) takes on with more than 70 years’ experience. By Caroline Smith.