Communities and Justice

Partnering Newsletter

DCJ’s quarterly ‘Partnering Newsletter’ provides the latest news on grants, research, and initiatives for DCJ’s contracted service providers.

Current newsletter

Issue 34 Partnering Newsletter - June 2026

  • Community-led approach strengthening outcomes for Aboriginal families
  • A week of celebration, a year of connection: Neighbourhood Centre Week recap
  • DCJ launches new Multicultural Plan 2026–2029
  • Targeted resources to address DFSV for older women and women with disability
Group of young children wearing green bucket hats sit on steps outside building, covering mouths and watching person in foreground, while adult supervises from behind.
Group of young children wearing green bucket hats sit on steps outside building, covering mouths and watching person in foreground, while adult supervises from behind.

Previous newsletters

Issue 33 Partnering Newsletter - March 2026

  • Investing in community‑led healing and cultural safety
  • Launch of the Community and Family Support (CAFS) program
  • FACSIAR Lunch and Learn webinar - Prenatal Substance Exposure
  • 2025 NSW State of Volunteering findings

Issue 32 Partnering Newsletter - December 2025

  • Connecting Culture, Community & Justice in Western Sydney and Wagga Wagga
  • Strengthening Family Bonds: Corrective Services and Youth Justice NSW Family Visits Project
  • NCOSS 90th Anniversary celebration
  • DCJ’s redesigned early intervention program: Community and Family Support (CAFS)

Issue 31 Partnering Newsletter - September 2025

  • Yarning and the Child Sage Standards
  • Employer registration now open for the Community Services Industry portable long service scheme
  • Strengthening multicultural pathways to culturally responsive domestic and family violence support
  • Coercive control resources now available to support communities

Issue 30 Partnering Newsletter - June 2025

  • Secure Jobs and Funding Certainty Roadmap released
  • Lucy’s story - reclaiming safety and stability amid family violence
  • Supporting youth to be curious and creative
  • Rent It Keep It – Homes NSW’s new online tenancy training

Issue 29 Partnering Newsletter - March 2025

  • Uniting’s Newpin Restoration Program
  • Supporting our vulnerable rough sleepers
  • Happy first anniversary Homes NSW!
  • New portable long service scheme for community services

Issue 28 Partnering Newsletter - December 2024

  • DCJ Child Safe Policy. 
  • Culturally Informed Practice Principles in South Western Sydney. 
  • Community Services Portable Long Service Leave Regulation Update. 
  • Draft NSW Homelessness Strategy 2025-2035 and the Housing and Homelessness Discussion Paper.

Issue 27 Partnering Newsletter - September 2024

  • “POPPY Supported Playgroup saved my life!”
  • Wilcannia celebrates community spirit with dance in honour of ‘Baaka’
  • PACS … the first five months
  • Carers going above and beyond as parenting coaches

Issue 26 Partnering Newsletter - June 2024

  • Youth in northern NSW get a boost
  • DCJ website update
  • Strengthening local responses to domestic, family and sexual violence
  • Improving transparency, accountability and security

Issue 25 Partnering Newsletter - March 2024

  • Every vape is a hit to your health campaign
  • Shining a light on volunteering - the 2023 State of Volunteering Research Report
  • Digital Working with Children Checks will save you time! 
  • Do you want to find out about demand for supports and services in NSW? 

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