Street to Home: Community Outreach for Rough Sleepers

A rough sleeper is anyone who does not have a continued or fixed residential address, resulting in the person sleeping rough on the streets, the bush, in a tent, an outdoor shelter or in a car, or other unsafe environment for an extended period.

Street to Home is a new initiative that is being funded through the National Affordable Housing Agreement (NAHA). The service will provide flexible case management in an assertive outreach model to assist chronically homeless individuals, with a focus on health, housing and legal issues. The services primary required output is 20 rough sleepers being supported at any one time. We have serveral key outcome requirements that centre around health, accommodation, referrals made, and brokerage used.

Specific ACT targets by 2013:

• A decrease of 7% in the number of people who are homless to fewer than 1,268 persons;
• A decrease by 1/3 the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who are homeless to fewer than 83 persons;
• A decrease of 25% in the number of people who are sleeping rough to less than 62 persons;

The office will be based in Braddon, but it's work will be almost exclusively 'going out' to support people where they are.

For more information, please contact:

P: 02 6282 2722

E: StreetToHome@svdp-cg.org.au