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New flexible school opens in Werribee with huge waitlist

21 February 2025

The Werribee campus, like all Hester Hornbrook Academy campuses, is purposefully designed to support the Healing Oriented Program of Education (HOPE); a holistic, student-centred approach that nurtures both individual and educational needs

Celebrating game-changing graduates of MCM’s Living Learning program

5 December 2024

MCM congratulates the fabulous graduates of Hester Hornbrook Academy who will be celebrated during a special ceremony in Melbourne today. The 2024 graduating class includes participants in MCM’s transformative mental health and education initiative, the Living Learning program.

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Pilot program paving path back to education for students with mental health conditions attracts funding boost, sparks calls for national roll-out

30 July 2024

A first of its kind in Australia, the Living Learning program supports 15-to-21-year-olds with mental ill-health who are isolated and have not stepped foot inside a classroom for years

Flexible South Melbourne secondary school opens with soaring waitlist to address rising school-refusal rates in Victoria

5 April 2023

Hester Hornbrook Academy opens new campus in South Melbourne

MCM reply to the 2021-2022 State Budget

20 May 2021

The Andrews government handed down the 2021-2022 State Budget today describing it as two sides of the same coin – creating jobs while caring for our community.

COVID-19: An update on our Early Learning Centres

22 April 2020

MCM welcomes the intention of the Early Childhood package announced by the Commonwealth Government last week, with its focus on sustaining childcare centres during the COVID-19 pandemic and providing families with free childcare, it hasn’t adequately considered the impact on diverse not-for-profits like MCM for whom childcare is only one component of the community services it provides.

Inadequate childcare relief package leaves MCM early learning centres out in the cold

8 April 2020

MCM is facing the possibility of closing its two Early Learning Centres due to a flaw in the design of the Commonwealth Government’s Early Childhood and Care Relief Package, announced last week.

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