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ACSO Our Vision is for a safe and inclusive community freed of crime and prison
Our mantra is "Create another chance" He was willing, and things happening so fast.

ACSO was started in 1983 by a man called Stan McCormack who served a number of years in Pentridge prison for armed robbery. While Stan was in prison, he underwent a spiritual conversion. There were always people in his cell wanting to talk or needing advice. When he was released, he created the Epistle Centre; later The Victorian Offender Support Agency for ex-prisoners who were highly disadvantaged. Our founders established support programs and a halfway house (McCormack House) which still remains in operation. ACSO has expanded over 28 years to deliver services for the intellectually disabled, peopling with mental illness, alcohol and other drug problems, offenders and people with long term unemployment. With a staff of 200 and an annual turnover around $18m ACSO is now a leading Victorian charity delivering more than 20 life changing programs to approximately 10,000 people a year

"it was the sheer determination and drive of founder Stan and his supporters that got ACSO through, even when the foundations seemed to disappear. There was a lot of help from a lot of people, but the brains and inspiration came from Stan. The best thing was that he took all those blokes in on face value without worrying about their pasts"

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