Jesuit Social Services works collaboratively with others to engage disadvantaged individuals, families and communities and the wider society to promote health and wellbeing and to address social exclusion.

We do this by forming relationships as a basis for effective, holistic interventions, by building social capital and by effecting social change through social policy, advocacy and research

Jesuit Social Services is a progressive, vibrant organisation with more than one hundred employed members of staff, over a hundred active volunteers and an exciting vision of community service and social action that is founded on Christian values.

We work in some of the most difficult and demanding areas of human service, including the areas of crime, addiction, mental illness, long-term unemployment and entrenched social disadvantage.

We are also involved in local communities, with inner city neighbourhoods in high-rise public housing estates. We have a longstanding involvement with the Vietnamese community, and a strong partnership with communities from the Horn of Africa.

The Ignatius Centre is the policy and research arm of Jesuit Social Services.  It complements our community service programs with advocacy, research and policy work aimed at building a more just society.