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Confidence with a capital C

by Vanessa on 5 November 2010

This blogging thing is a bit addictive.  It’s true, there are far worse things to become addicted to so I am now happily admitting my fascination and secret fondness for blogging. Alas, here’s blog number 3.

As we embark on recruiting our next group of trainees, we have been having many conversations about how we build confidence in young people who have been disengaged from families, school, employment and community.  We have talked this topic to within an inch of its life and I got to thinking that we might have been making this matter more complex than it needs to be.

As we live in a modern, interactive and electronic world, I did what any self respecting researcher would do and posted a message on Facebook.  I asked my nearest and dearest the simple question “What makes you feel confident?”

Transitions big and small

by Vanessa on 25 October 2010

I have recently been giving some thought to the idea of transition.  What is it?  How does it impact on us as individuals or a group?

My prompting for this thinking was our recent Graduation celebration where we proudly witnessed eight of our Intake 1 trainees graduate from the STREAT program. What an amazing occasion it was, but more about that later.

STREAT action for Anti-Poverty week

by Sunisa on 18 October 2010

This week is Anti-Poverty Week. Let’s increase our awareness of poverty and hardship by reading up and supporting people who do something to mitigate hardship in the country.

STREAT is running a promotion for the occasion. For this week if you’re at our food cart in Federation Square you can donate $3.20. We’ll use that to give someone in need a coffee from our coffee cart in Melbourne Central.

And the same goes in reverse. If you’re at the Melbourne Central coffee cart, donate $4.50 and we’ll buy someone a taco.

More information to come next week on how we distribute the tacos and coffees! Thanks for your support guys. 

STREAT's Stop Homelessness campaign video

by Sunisa on 13 October 2010

Thanks to everyone who contributed photos to our Stop Homelessness Campaign! 

Here is the much-promised STREAT Stop Homelessness video. We’ve turned it into our manifesto, a rousing roundup of what we believe in.

And because our creative collaborators are talented and generous with their time, we have more to offer you! One of our volunteers, Craig Frankland, a freelance designer based in Melbourne, has laid our manifesto out visually.  

Click on the poster to download and print it for your home, your office, your circle of friends. Show your love and spread the word—send the video and poster to your community, and get them on board!

Special thanks to Youthworx Productions, and Sonia Mangiapane for her generous photography. 

Now serving coffee from a STREAT cart named Desire

by Jo on 11 October 2010

 Dear supporters of STREAT, Fair Trade coffee, and organic produce:

Our new coffee cart is up and running in Melbourne Central and we’re ready to go out into the world with the news. Listen up! Fair Trade and organic coffees are available from STREAT seven days a week in Melbourne Central, near the escalators to the train.  Our opening hours are on this site page.