SOURCE: Colac members of the Barwon Homelessness Network at the Colac Library event to raise awareness of homelessness in the Colac Otway Shire during National Homelessness week.
Join Our Petition!
Please join our petition to the City of Greater Geelong.
There are over 7,000 households on priority applications on the Victorian Housing Register (VHR) in the Barwon broadbands. This petition is to support the urgency of building public and community housing, as housing ends homelessness. The Barwon Homelessness Network is seeking your support. Will you sign this petition?
News:
Geelong Advertiser- 14 August- Put houses on Games site
Surf Coast Times- 11 August- Homelessness agencies demand 60,000 new social homes and on apple news nationally
ABC News- 16 August– Victorian government’s youth justice reforms one step closer after passing upper house
The Age- 19 August- Victoria’s ‘affordable’ housing scheme is an insult to people’s intelligence
News Daily- 19 August– ‘Doing nothing is not an option’: Top economists back planning reform and public housing as fixes for Australia’s housing crisis
Training/Resources/Reports:
Life Course Centre- Listening to lived experience: what needs to be done to end homelessness in Australia?
AHURI- From Homelessness to a Home H2H Outcomes Evaluation
Council to Homeless Persons- A new workforce planning platform to support Specialist Homelessness Services and the community and social services sector
MCM- Victorian Youth Homelessness Snapshot
Homelessness Australia- 2024 Child Homelessness Snapshot
HYDDI workers training calendar for those working with young people
Disability Advocacy Resource Unit website
Council to Homeless Persons – SHS Learning Hub
AAEH- Australian Alliance to End Homelessness
Webinars/Events:
CHP- Lived Experience Hotline: Ask Me Anything: AMA– 7 August You Tube
Conferences/Grants/Submissions/Petitions:
Australian Zero Homelessness Summit– 16 October Fremantle WA
No to Violence National Conference 2-5 September Melbourne
Barwon South West Homelessness Network- Increase public and community housing sign the petition
Engage Victoria- Developing a Plan for Victoria– open until 30 August. Housing is one of the four pillars- this is your chance show support for mandatory inclusionary zoning and 30% social housing on all government land.
Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation – Homelessness and Affordable Housing grant open
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