Newsletter

Advocacies Odyssey Victoria is Supporting 

2026 sees Odyssey Victoria actively continuing to engage in local and statewide advocacy efforts. Here [...]

Staff Development Day

Our annual Staff Development Day was held in July, bringing staff together from all of [...]

Client Satisfaction Ratings

Each year since 2010, we’ve asked clients about their experience with Odyssey Victoria’s (OV) services [...]

Connecting with Country at Coranderrk

Recently Lower Plenty residents and staff had the privilege of attending the Indigenous Land Management, [...]

Short Story Competition 

Odyssey Victoria’s annual Short Story Competition is back for its 15th year, and this year’s [...]

New Circuit Breaker Facility Turns 2

In May, Circuit Breaker (our residential rehabilitation facility near Benalla) marked two years since the [...]

Lower Plenty Building Updates and Upcoming Works

Our Lower Plenty facility operates 102 residential beds and is the sole provider in Victoria [...]

Honouring a Remarkable Legacy at Lower Plenty

In August, Odyssey Victoria celebrated the official opening of the newly renovated David and Pat [...]

NAIDOC Week Celebrations at Odyssey

Odyssey Victoria (OV) celebrated NAIDOC Week (5-12 July) events across all our sites. This year’s [...]

Annual appeal 2026

Michelle once ran her own business, raising two young children, and had plans for the [...]

Annual Report Financial Year 2024/25

Celebrating Pride and Supporting the Rainbow Community

The Midsumma Pride March was held in St Kilda on Sunday, 1 February, and Odyssey [...]

Odyssey Victoria’s Strategic Plan 2024-2029 

Lower Plenty Building Upgrades

In the past year we have been working on significant upgrades to our Lower Plenty [...]

Strengthening Our Lived Experience Workforce 

In 2024, Odyssey Victoria became one of the first Victorian agencies invited to join the [...]

Residential Service Graduation

During December our Lower Plenty and Hope Centre Therapeutic Communities (TC) celebrated the graduation of [...]

Supporting Families Through the Holidays

Christmas is a particularly challenging time for families in recovery as most of their resources [...]

A Word From Our CEO

The global instability and cost of living pressure is certainly having an impact on many [...]

Overdose Awareness

We commemorated International Overdose Awareness Day on the 31st of August, with the latest Australian [...]

Odyssey Olympics

Our Hope Centre Resi’ Rehab’ near Bairnsdale and our Lower Plenty Resi’ Rehab’ joined together [...]

Barwon Office

In January, our Barwon Catchment program and services moved to a new location in Geelong. [...]

Werribee PAMS Group

Our Southwest catchment recently started a Women’s AOD Supported Playgroup for mothers of pre-school children [...]

Wear it Purple Day

Our staff recently celebrated Wear it Purple Day. It is held on the last Friday [...]

Governor of Victoria visits Lower Plenty TC

The Governor of Victoria, Her Excellency the Honourable Professor Margaret Gardner AC, visited Odyssey’s Lower [...]

Accessibility and Fire Upgrades at Lower Plenty

In order to better support the accessibility of our services at our Lower Plenty Therapeutic [...]

Shark Cage

The Shark Cage program is a powerful, evidence-based initiative designed to support women and individuals [...]

Support for Treaty

Odyssey Victoria acknowledges the First Peoples of Australia as belonging to the oldest continuing culture [...]

Circuit Breaker Facility Opening

After officially opening our newly developed Circuit Breaker facility late last year on Monday 2nd [...]

Students at Odyssey

Odyssey Victoria offers a variety of student placements across our programs and services. While we [...]

Short Story Competition 2025

Odyssey House Victoria’s annual Short Story Competition is open for 2025. This year’s theme is [...]