What's New At Connections?

An innovative and unique program run by Connections UnitingCare is offering young mothers the opportunity to participate in the Peer Support Training program.

Peer Support Training provides young mothers with knowledge, leadership and communication skills that can be used to mentor other young parents and lead to further education or employment.

Connections UnitingCare has today joined with other community service organisations in welcoming the Report of the Protecting Victoria's Vulnerable Children Inquiry.

Connections acknowledges the dedicated work by Honourable Philip Cummins (Chair), Emeritus Professor Dorothy Scott OAM and Mr Bill Scales AO on the year-long Report that was commissioned by the Baillieu Government after being elected on a platform to reform child protection.

Connections UnitingCare has today said that it supports the Uniting Church in Australia, Synod of Victoria and Tasmania official apology to Australians who experienced harm through the forced adoption of their children over many decades in the last century.

The apology made by the Moderator, Ms Isabel Thomas Dobson, comes a day before the expected release of a Senate Inquiry into the Commonwealth Government's Contribution to Former Forced Adoption Practices and Policies which examined the practice of adopting out children of single mothers which lasted into the 1970s.