Advocacy Success with St Vincent’s Healthcare Australia

ACRATH milestone advocacy success only possible with support from St Vincent’s Healthcare Australia staff and Sisters. We have had a win. With the help of the Sisters of Charity and many SVHA staff, a 17-year advocacy battle has resulted in the Federal Government’s Budget decision to offer victims and survivors of human trafficking the opportunity…

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How Far Have We Come?

Did you miss the ACRATH Conversation Series in August? A recording of the conversation may be viewed here. ACRATH’s co-founder and current President Louise Cleary CSB and Dr Lisa McDonald, Group Mission Leader with St Vincent’s Health Australia (SVHA) were the guests on ACRATH Conversations in August. The Conversation topic was Human Trafficking, how far…

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Health Services to Focus on Human Trafficking

Many of Australia’s largest Catholic health care providers will gather across three cities on Monday to hear how they can slavery-proof their supply chains and better treat people who have been trafficked. St Vincent’s Health Australia (SVHA) and ACRATH (Australian Catholic Religious Against Trafficking in Humans) joined forces last year in a groundbreaking project to…

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Groundbreaking Anti-Slavery Project

A First for Australia’s Health Care Sector Australia’s leading anti-human trafficking group and a major health and aged care provider have joined forces in a groundbreaking effort to change the way hospitals treat trafficked people and how to ‘slavery proof’ the goods and services they use. ACRATH (Australian Catholic Religious Against Trafficking in Humans) and…

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