Our volunteers feel proud to be able to support the vulnerable members of our community and help reduce the amount of payday lender loans they may access that come with terribly high fees and interest charges.
Why YUMCHA Hamilton is a vital step
“The aim is to provide a safe, welcoming space for youth to meet regularly and be themselves, explore their identity, engage socially and create a sense of belonging.”
Helping parents manage problematic behaviour
A program to help parents build strategies in dealing with and understanding a child’s problematic or violent behaviours will likely return from July.
Tasty Plate ready for more!
Tasty Plate looks forward to securing other corporate catering events on the back of a “super successful” service at the 2022 Warrnambool May Racing Carnival.
Spreading the volunteer love!
What better way to share some love than National Volunteers Week? National Volunteer Week is a chance for all of us to celebrate and recognise the vital work of volunteers and to say thank you. Together, through volunteering, we are changing communities for the...
The Friday Feed is back!
The return of Brophy's popular Friday Feed will give participants the chance to reconnect with friends over a free meal. The community program, which will re-start from May 27 after a two-year break due to COVID-19, will kick off at 10am and go through to 1pm. It will...
‘Clear call to end discrimination’
Brophy Family and Youth Services chief executive Francis Broekman says IDAHOBIT Day is a celebration of inclusion but also a "very clear call" to end LGBTQIA+ discrimination. Mr Broekman spoke as a rainbow flag was raised by Warrnambool City Council mayor Vicki...
Brophy urges communities to take care
Brophy Family and Youth Services is encouraging south-west people affected by recent debate over transgender, gender diverse and non-binary inclusion to take extra care, swipe with caution online, and reach out to friends and supports. The transgender, gender diverse...
Practicing what WE preach
The DARE team challenge young every day to make changes in their lives, so they thought they should take a leaf out of their own book!
Youth Inspired e Mag to celebrate headspace Day
A youth inspired e-mag has landed in support of headspace Day 2021!
Hello Hamilton!
Our Hamilton Office is Open! We are thrilled to have a space for our Hamilton community to access our services.
WE ARE STOKED!
An idea born from a conversation in the middle of the ocean one morning between two friends led to Brophy’s first STOKED program.