1998 – 2011 - Council to Homeless Persons

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Listing of Council to Homeless Persons Parity Magazine Back Issues 1998 – 2011
1998
The August Youth Homelessness Revisited Edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial
Youth Homelessness Five Years On
What do you do if you are young and homeless in a rural area?
Where Do They Go?
Youth Despair
Youth Homelessness in the Capital City
The Policy Challenge of Early Intervention
Early Intervention in The Real World
From: The Voice of the Streets
School Focused Youth Service
Exploring the Causes of Homelessness Among Young People
A Western Australian Perspective
Youth Homelessness in Tasmania
Council to Homeless Persons Parity Magazine Back Issues 1998 – 2011
The September Drugs, Alcohol, Mental Illness and Homelessness Edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial
Down and Out in Sydney
If The Cap Fits...Homebased Detox
Working Together
Homeless and Duelling with Diagnoses
Sex, Drugs and Refuges
Why Submitt
Ready to Make the Necessary Connections
A Positive Approach
Women with Dependents - Who Wants Them if They're Mad and Bad
Homeless and Family Violence Services Unit - Linkages Activities
Collaboration - The Key to Prevention
Access to Treatment Services
Mental Health Service Users and Training
The October Representations of Homelessness Edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial
News
Feature Representations of Homelessness
Introducing Representations of Homelessness - Noel Murray and Guy Johnson
Inside looking Out - Outside Looking In
What Does the Australian Community Think About Homelessness - Sally Watson
"But I Still Feel Homeless" - Terry Bartholomew
Presenting Homelessness - Thornton McCamish
Homelessness and the Print News Media - Cath Mackie and Guy Johnson
Re-Presentations of Homelessness -Rodney Fopp
Representations of Young Homeless And their Wokers in Children's fiction - Maureen
Crago
Opinion: Michael Raper
The November Working with Homeless People Edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial
News
Feature: Working with Homeless People
Of Death and Alcoholism
Homeless Women - Our Finest Teachers
Reflections of a Night Worker at the Gill
The Hawthorn Project
Remaining Responsive in a Rapidly Changing Welfare Environment
Practice Issues in Working with Homeless People
"Most Women are told taht the violence is their fault..." Some Issues at Work in the
Family Violence Sector
Homeless Persons as Consumers
Artful Dodgers Art Studio at Connections
Homelessness and Family Violence Services: The Policy Environment
JPET: Working with Homeless Youth
1999
The February Women and Homelessness Edition of Parity
Editorial
News
Feature Women and Homelessness
Setting the Policy Framework for Women's Homelessness - Maggie Hughes
Women's Services in Australia
Access and Equity in Women's Services
Responding to Homelessness in Remote Australia
Help for Children Exposed to Violence in the Home
Singular Women - Which Way is Home. The Puzzle of the Problem of Homelessness
Diversity
Indigeneous Women and Children
Homeless Young Women
Women with Disabilities and Homelessness
NESB Women without income
Women without access to income support
Children as Clients in Their Own Right
Women, Children, Mental Health and Homelessness
Sexual Assault and Homelessness - Bridie Doyle
Negotiating Dangerous Territory
The March Housing and Homelessness Edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial
News
Feature Housing and Homelessness
Homelessness and Housing Policy Issues - By Ruth Gordon
Targeting Housing Assisstance in Victoria - By Carolyn Gale
On target - By Heather Holst
Extending the Context of Housing - By Ken Dyson
The Housing Related Poverty of Older Persons - By Mandy Leveratt
A National Strategy for Community Housing - By Adam Farrar
A Tax on All Your Houses - By Eleri Morgan-Thomas
Housing - Safety Security - By Terry Bartholomew
The Place Is Our Home - By Belinda Drew and Anne Coleman
Exit Points - By Michael Lye
The April Indigenous Homelessness Revisited Edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial
News
There's No Place Like Home
For Victorian SAAP Services and other YAFS funded services
Release of National Evaluation of SAAP III
SPC Share-A-Can 1999
The Crisis in Crisis Accommodation
Building a Better Intergrated Service System in Victoria
Indigenous Homelessness
Indigenous Homelessness "Revisited"
Addressing the Causes of Indigenous Homelessness
Focus on Case Management
Victorian Koori Case Management
Implementing and Improving SAAP Case Management Practices
Aboriginal Case Management Resource Guide for South Australian SAAP Services
Countless Homeless Indigenous Peoples - Janice Paulson
ATSIC Initiatives and Reforms
Aboriginal Family Preservation: Holding on to the Future
One Step Forward Two Steps Backward?
A View From the Long Grass - W. Bartlett Day
ATSIC Data Collection
From Hostel to Home
Opinion - Lin Turner
The May Second National Homelessness Conference Edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial
News
Feature Second National Conference Edition
The Social Policy Agenda - By Peter Saunders
Making Inroads into Homelessness - By Leanne Wells
Early Interventions in Homelessness - Parents Matter - By Howard Nielson
What Housing Future? Housing and Housing Assisstance into the Next Millenium - By
Andrew Beer
Early Intervention and Youth Homelessness - By Phil Crane
Early Intervention - Five Key Issues - By David MacKenzie and Chris Chamberlain
DeHinged at the Conference in and through Connexions - By Sally Marsden and
Eamonn Scott
Customising Training for Workers in Aboriginal Homelessness Services - By Moira
Deslandes
Opinion -
The June Local Government and Homelessnes Edition of Parity
Editorial
News
Second National Homeless Conference
The Crisis in Crisis Accommodation
Feature
Local Government & Housing
Homelessness - Our Communities and Local Government
Housing & Homelessness in the Capital City
A Shared Effort - Housing & Homelessness in the City of Adelaide
A Working Relationship: Multi Agency Community Housing Association & Adelaide
City Council
Address Housing Need - Local Government as a Contributor but not a Panacea
Local Government Housing & Homelessness The City of Sydney
MAV Housing Kit
Are we sharing the spirit?
Local Government Supports Development of Services for Homeless Men
Opinion
The July Mental Health and Homelessness Edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial
News
Mental Health & Homelessness
Homelessness & Mental Illness
Youth Mental Health & Homelessness
Making the National Mental Health Connections
Psychiatric Disability Support Services & Homelessness
The Provision of Care to Shelterless People with Psychiatric Illness in Inner Urban
Melbourne
Responding to the Need
Linkage and Protocols for Homeless Peoples Project
The Boarding House Project Team Central Sydney Area Health Service
Accommodating Young Homeless People with Mental Health Issues
Homelessness among People with Schizophrenia
Opinion
The August Health and Homelessness Edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial
Health and Homelessness
The Impact of the Changes to Health Care Policy and Serivce Provision for Homeless
People
A Framework for Health Service Delivery for Homeless People
Strengthening Victoria's Primary Health and Community Support Services
Can Public Hospitals Respond to the Needs of People Experiencing Homelessness
The Cottage: A necessary step to health
Mortality Among the Homeless Mentally Ill in Sydney
Health Matters
HACC Cluster Model Project Evaluation of Phases 1 & 2
ACHA: Linking Housing and Care for Older Homeless People
Improving Health Services for Homeless People in South Eastern Sydney
Partnerships: The Last Strategy
Health and the Homeless
A Humanistic Approach to Health Care
Opinion
The September, Young People, Drugs and Homelessness Edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial
The Problem With....
Victoria's Drug Treatment Service System: Responding to the Needs of Young People
The National Drug Strategy
Mobilising Communities to Prevent Youth Problems Including Homelessness and
Substance Abuse
The Prevalence of Alcohol and Drug Dependence Among People Experiencing
Homelessness
The Youth Substance Abuse Service
Direct Respone to Overdose Program - DROP
Emerging Changes in Heroin Overdose Patterns
"If only it weren't for the drugs"
The Power of One
A Duty of Care to the Homeless
What is Somazone?
Reputation Enhancement: A Piece of the Puzzle to Understand Adolescent Drug Use
Which Comes First?
Acquire Brain Injury and Youth Homelessness
Homelessness & Drugs: What Queensland projects are doing to make a difference
Ten Year After
Opinion Paul McDonald
The October Recent Developments in Crisis and Low Cost Accommodation Edition
of Parity
Contents
Editorial
Letter to the Editor
SAAP - High and Complex Needs Report
Last Drink Please Gents
Victorian Rooming Housing Legislation
Private Hotels as Crisis Accommodation: Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem?
Covering the Crisis
Pricking the Conscience of Government
The Boarding House Reform Strategy
Boarders and Lodgers - The People and Law Forgot
Acquire Brain Injury and Homeless Women
An Age Old Demand for Dignity
A Report into Mental Health and Homelessness
Exploring the Need for Crisis Accommodation in the Inner City
Pension - Level SRS* Resident - What Is Their Future?
Roomers By Residents For Residents
Kevin, Rooming House Resident, Melbourne
The November Homeless Families Edition of Parity
CONTENTS
Editorial
"Exploring the need for crisis accommodation in the Inner City" - Forum run by CHP
on 16 November 1999
Telling The Story: "I'll be home for Christmas"
Understanding Demand for Crisis Accommodation
Port Melbourne Tent Embassy
Homeless Families - Introduction
Family Homelessness in Sydney
Family Homelessness in Melbourne's West
Homeless Families in Queensland
Supporting Itinerant Families Living in Caravan Parks
Reconnect: A Commonwealth Government Initiative to Prevent Youth Homelessness
It's Time for Health for Homeless Families
Making Room for Children in Generalist SAAP Services
Getting to the Heart of the Matter
Cycles Within Cycles
Is it Access, Participation or Entrenched Failure??
Who Works With the Children?
Opinion Terry Bartholomew
2000
The January: The Future of Homelessness Edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial
Creating a better future for the homeless
Homelessness - the litmus test Care for Older
Time to take off the blinkers
Tackling the causes
The social acceptability of homelessness
Who will be homeless
Crystal balling homelessness to 2010 - Affordable housing helps prevent
homelessness
No direction home
Blessed are the rich
The future of homelessness
The future of sleeping rough
Can we expect to eradicate homelessness
Are we doing enough?
The February Meeting the Needs of the Elderly Homeless Edition of Parity
Editorial
Older People and Homelessness
The Commonwealth Government's Commitment to Care for Older Australians
Why We Need a National Strategy for the Homeless Elderly
Wintringham: Providing Dignified, High Quality Services to Elderly Homeless Men
and Women
Policies and Programmes to Meet the Needs of Elderly Homeless People
A Dialogue with the future?: The American Service Sector's Response to Elderly
Homelessness
Community Housing: The Only Option for Older Persons?
Veterans Affairs' targets the homeless and at-risk veteran community
Older People Made Homeless in Sydney's Housing Gold Rush
Ageing in Displacement
The Too Hard Basket is Overflowing: Homeless Aged Men in Brisbane
Do Elderly Homeless People With Alcohol Related Brain Damage Receive Appropriate
Service?
Reflections From Prague House
Opinion Bryan Lipmann, AM
The March "A Room of Her Own" - Homeless Young Women
Edition of Parity
CONTENTS
Editorial
Invisible Young Women's Project
Women Before Their Time
Invisible Women: A Rural Perspective
Sexual Violence: Don't Dodge the Subject
Whose place?
'Coming Home': Young Women, Homelessness and love
Homeless Young Women, Their Health, Their Story
Meeting The Need: Homeless Young Women and Their Children
Brief Reflecting on Representations of Young (Homeless) Women
Young Women and Homelessness
Exploring Young Women's Transition to Housing
Homelessness: Young Women with Mental Health Difficulties
The April Refugees: The New Homeless Edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial
News
Release of the SAAP Annual Report for 1998-99
Understanding Demand for Crisis Accommodation at Melbourne's Inner City Services
Refugees... The New Homeless
Refugees In Australia: The Legal Framework
Australia's Commitment to Refugee Resettlement
"At Your Discretion" Refugees and Community Agencies
Refugees: Homeless by Definition
Refugees and Asylum Seekers: Time to Accept Responsibility
A Parallel Universe of Social Exclusion for Asylum Seekers
Welcome to the Lucky Country?
Homeless Asylum Seekers: Hidden and Vulnerable
A Place to Call Home?
No Dough, No Go!
Opinion - Ms Margaret Piper
The May Renting: No Way Out Edition of Parity
CONTENTS
Editorial
Letters to the Editor
News
Counting the Human Cost of Funding (In) Decision By Ben Rossiter
Private Rental Trends and Homelessness by Terry Burke
Commonwealth Rent Assistance by the Rent Assistance Section, Housing Branch,
Department of Family and Community Services
Barriers To Entering the Private Rental Market Need Urgent Dismantling By
Government by Kate Lee
Discrimination In Private Rental by Nona San Pedro
What Option? Private Rental in the Inner City for Low Income Earners by Sue Grigg
and Guy Johnson
Housing Costs and Tenure: Does Private Rental Still Contain the Most Stress? by Dr
Andrew Beer
Relying on Private Renting: The Canadian Experience by Kath Hulse
Who Will Fill the Gaps in the Market? by Nicholas Warren
The Impact of the GST on the Private Rental Market by Scott Ewing and Kate Wait
Opinion Tony Nicholson, Chief Executive Officer, Hanover Welfare Services
The June Homelessness and the law Edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial
Developing a Workable Response by Sue Edwards
Homelessness and the Law by Sam Biondo
Campaign for Family Friendly Legal Aid by Pamela Foster
Providing Support to Homeless People with Legal Problems: Strategies that Work by
Lucy McCotter
Youth + Street = Crime?? by Jane Sanders
Do Children and Young People have any Legal Rights? by Sarah Nicholson
Towards a Dealing Just and Kind by Chris Howse
CCI; Breaking the Cycle Drugs, Homelessness and Crime by Kerri Jackson, Helen
Smith and Paul O'Sullivan
Protecting Normal: No Loitering Laws in Port Kembla, NSW. by Danae Harvey
How Can Tenancy Law Contribute to Improved Housing Outcomes? y Kate Wait
The Olympics, Homelessness and Local Government by Stephanie Smith
The Olympics, Sydney 2000 and the Criminalisation of the Homeless by Beth Jewell
20 Justice: Real Or Imagined? by Jules Souaillard and K. T. Hayward,
Acquired Brain Injury - The Linkages Between Homelessness and the Criminal Justice
System By Mark Higgins
Opinion Homeless People and the Law Justice Ronald
Sackville
Insert: The Right to Housing Under International Law, by Glen Menner
The August Homeless Prograqms Overseas Edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial
Why do we need a Victorian Homelessness Strategy? By Netty Horton
CHP Homelessness and the Law Forum
Two Decades of the "Market" Experiment in New Zealand by Carolyn Wait
Scotland Acts by Mel Young
The Production and Maintenance of Rooflessness in Greece by Vassilis Arapoglou
Social Policy for the Homeless in Spain by Esperanza Linares
Homelessness In Ireland: Unmet Needs by Claire Hickey
The Fight to End Homelessness: How Far Have We Come? by Dr. Anne Golden
Homeless in Denmark by Per Thomsen and Arne Jacobsen
Tackling Street Homelessness in Scotland: A Joined Up Strategy? by Isobel Anderson
Hera: A Holistic Approach to Homelessness by Ida Motturi
Opinion Maureen Crane
Insert: Legal Services to Homeless People in the United States by Caitlin English
The September Poverty and Homelessness Edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial
Poverty: Tackling Denial and Finding Solutions By Barry Hahn
Poverty and Homelessness By the Hon John Howard MP, Prime Minister
Poverty and Homelessness By the Hon Kim. Beazley MP, Leader of the Opposition
Behavioural Poverty and Homelessness By Lucy Sullivan
Labour Omnia Vinci - (Work Conquers All) By Colin Robinson
Understanding Poverty By Janet Taylor
Is this mutuality? No, but it is mutual obligation By John Tomlinson
Better Than Nothing? The Future of Private Rooming Houses in the City Of Yarra By
Sally Jope
The ACT Poverty Project By Rebecca Vassorotti Technology for Social Justice By
Andrew Mahar
South Australia in Focus "A Sorry State of Affairs" By Peter Burke and Matthew
Woodward
Young People and Private Rental Jane Roland
Community Representation in South Australia By Trish Hensley
Opinion Fr Nic Frances
Insert Where did you sleep last night? Counting Homeless People in Brisbane By John
McCulloch The Homelessness Action Team By Catherine Hicks
The October Homelessness Outreach Edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial
News:
Victorian Homelessness Strategy October Update
Assertive Outreach
Support To Homeless People, by Ann Smith and Tanya Gamble
Warlga Ngurra Women & Children’s Refuge — Outreach Program
Outreach with Street Children, by Nathan Stirling AM
Homeless Health Outreach
Monitoring Eastern Sydney, by Donna Brown
What's in a Name: Outreach Victoria, by Stephen Nash
Healthtime:
When Time is not on Their Side, by Paulo Reid
An Outreach Health Service: Reflections On Safety, by Sue White
Preventing Homelessness for Women (with and without children) experiencing
Domestic and Family Violence, by Donna Chung, Rosemary Kennedy, Bev O’Brien,
Sarah Wendt
Service Delivery on the Street: Youth Alcohol and Drug Outreach, by Fran Holgate
Young People, Drugs and Outreach: Reflections on Practice, by Greg Smith
Opinion An Outreach Strategy for Homeless People During the Sydney 2000
Olympics, by Gavin Smith
Insert The Place of Research, by Ben Rossiter, Project i
The November Surviving Homelessness Edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial
News:
Victorian Homelessness Strategy Update
First National Homelessness Strategy Funding Announcement
The Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Homelessness
The National Homelessness Strategy
A New Service to Assist Homeless People in St Kilda
Young People Cultural Diversity and Homelessness
Obstacles to Surviving Homelessness, by Matt Gleeson
Surviving' Homelessness is Not Enough for Homeless Children, by Sue Edwards
An Interview with Lee Tatchell
An Interview with a Survivor
...going to be much harder than you thought... By K.T. Hayward
Assisting Elderly Survivors of Homelessness, by Kay Kavanagh
Surviving Homelessness In Adelaide, by Carole Zufferey
The Writer Survives in the Writing, by Ben Rossiter
It Can Happen to Anyone... Regardless, by Jules Souaillard
Survival - 1, by Emma Groves
Survival - 2, by Penguin
One Tale of Survival: My Friend John, by Dez Pain
Survival Requires Change
Insert Surviving the Streets, by John Kent
2001
The March Out of the Fire Edition of Parity
Contents
Introduction: Big Picture
Government Partnerships Against Domestic Violence; from the Office of the Status
of Women and Commonwealth Department of Family and Community Services
Women's Safety Strategy: a Whole-of-Government Response to Violence against
Women; by Penny Drysdale, Senior Policy Officer, Department of Premier and
Cabinet, Office of Women's Policy, Victoria
Housing Rights of Women Affected by Domestic Violence and Mental Health
Problems; by Val Shelton-Bunn, Women's Health Access Program, Department of
Health and Human Services, Tasmania
Challenging Orthodoxies: the Next Step; by The Hon. Dr Carmen Lawrence, MP,
Shadow Minister for the Status of Women
National Perspectives: The Importance of Policy Work in Advocacy; by Alice
Thompson, Policy/Networking Officer, Australian Federation of Homeless
Organisations
Change Meets Change: The Women's Services Network; by Helen Leonard, National
Executive Officer, WESNET
Key Issues: Revisiting Domestic Violence and Homelessness; by Robyn Gregory,
School of Social Work and Social Policy, La Trobe University, Victoria
Defining 'Domestic Violence' and 'Homelessness'; by Helen MacDonald, Domestic
Violence and Incest Resource Centre, Victoria
Why We Still Need Women's Services in the Twenty First Century; by Veronica
Wensing, WESNET
Violence, Domestic Violence and Immigration; by Sherron Dunbar, Springvale
Community Aid and Advice Bureau, Victoria
The Impact of Domestic and Family Violence on Women and Homelessness: Findings
from a National Research Project; by Donna Chung, Rosemary Kennedy, Bev O'Brien
and Sarah Wendt, Social Policy Research Group, University of South Australia
Domestic and Family Violence: the Latest Research; by Julie Oberin, National
Chairperson, WESNET and Executive, AFHO
Violence against Women with Disabilities; by Carolyn Frohmader, Executive Director,
Women With Disabilities Australia
The Law, Domestic Violence and Homelessness - What are the Legal Parameters? By
Sue Edwards, Policy Officer, Council to Homeless Persons
Migrant Women Trapped in Violence; by Meryem Ali and April Pham, Immigrant
Women's Speakout Association, NSW
The Impact of the 1995 Amendments to the Family Law Act on Women and Children
who have Experienced Domestic Violence; by Emma Sydenham, New South Wales
Women's Refuge Resource Centre
'Sole Occupancy' Orders; by Jenny Nunn, Domestic Violence and Incest Resource
Centre, Victoria
Can the Law Prevent Domestic Violence Homelessness? Rhonda Cumberland,
Women's Domestic Violence Crisis Service, Victoria
Policing Domestic Violence: Policy Meets Practice in Rural New South Wales; by
Cecilia Lenagh, Hastings Women and Children's Service, NSW
On the Ground: Responding to Domestic Violence and Homelessness. The Domestic
Violence Outreach Model: the Western Domestic Violence Outreach Program
Example; by Alfina Sinatra, Western Domestic Violence Outreach Program, Victoria
A Move Towards a More Accessible Service; by Pamela Foster, NSW Women's
Refuge Movement
Intersections of Family Violence, Sexual Assault and Homelessness for Women and
Children: a Cross Cultural Snapshot; by Julie Oberin, Muthama Sinnappan and
Akosita Tamanisau, Annie North Women's Refuge, Victoria
Reaching our Client Group: the Experience of the Griffith Women's Refuge; by
Yvonne Wilson, Kulkuna Cottage Women's Refuge Ltd (Known as Griffith Women's
Refuge), NSW
From Communal to Cluster - or is it? Service Facilities for Women and Children
Escaping Violence; by Esmé Tyson, A.M., Alice Springs Women's Shelter Inc., NT
Walan Jineras - Moving Forward; by Wendy Anders, Kempsey Women and Children's
Service, NSW
The Port Lincoln Domestic Violence Rapid Response Program; by Gill Cibich, Port
Lincoln Crime Prevention Officer, SA
The Statewide Women's Community Housing Service, Victoria; by Anne Dillon,
SWCHS Western Region Housing Worker, Victoria
Family Violence: What about the 'Third Party'? By Marian Hosking, Manning District
Emergency Accommodation, NSW
The Service System as Abuser? By Carla Meurs, Co-ordinator, Emergency
Accommodation Support Enterprise, Victoria
Life as a Family Violence Counsellor in a Rural Community; by Sue Harris, Far East
Gippsland Health and Support Service, Orbost, Victoria
Difficult Choices: Housing Women with Multiple Issues in Crisis Accommodation; by
Mel Austin, Valerie House, Victoria
An Option for Homeless Domestic Violence Survivors; by Vicki Lachlan, Executive
Director, The Women's Housing Association Inc, SA
Escaping Domestic Violence and Finding a Home; by Tracy Laffan, Western Women's
Domestic Violence Support Network, Victoria
A Holistic Approach to the Needs of Homeless Young Women; by Desi Alexandridis
and Helen Bennett, Young Women's and Childen's Support Services, SA
Integrated Approach to Domestic Violence: a Service Response; by Pauline
Woodbridge, North Queensland Domestic Violence Resource Service
The April On the Margins: Caravan Parks Edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial
News
Housing Risk Among Caravan Park Residents, by Lisa Bostock
Caravan Parks: A Housing Solution? By Mae Proudley and Nicola Wylie
The Goodna Gailes Caravan Parks Project; by Narelle Heckendorf (et al)
Deconstructing Social Exclusion: Inclusionary Practice in Caravan Parks; by Kath
Muller and John Martin
Affordability Crisis Looms for Retirees on NSW Parks; by Joy Connor
Caravan Parks and the Review of the Residential Tenancies Act 1997; By Richard
Watling
Illegal Evictions Add to Koori Homelessness; Gunyah Aboriginal Tenancy Service
Coverage For All is Needed Now; By Jackie Galloway
When the Hedge is Full of Holes: Implementation of the Residential Parks Act of NSW
in Inland NSW; By Joy Connor
Reflections of a Long Time Caravan Park Worker; By Harvey Volke
Caravan Parks Family Crisis Child Care Pilot Project; By Larry Anthony, MP
The GST and Caravan Parks; By Anthony Albanese, MP
Opinion:
Gus Eddy - Executive Officer, Family Action Centre, University of Newcastle
The June Homeless Men: The Forgotten Homeless? Edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial
News
Homeless Men - Out In The Cold; by Rev. Noreen Towers
Men, Male Family Violence and Homelessness; by Mick Boyle
Homelessness Amongst Males… Can Early Intervention Work? By Jane Barnes
Crisis Accommodation Should be a Final Option for Men in Crisis; by Jo Thomas
Changing Faces; by Jan Viney
Homeless Men: The Forgotten Homeless; by Tony Dreger
Homeless Men in the Top End; by Val Kirk
Hotham Closure: Another Blow to Affordable Housing; by Frances Mirabelli
Home and the Homeless Mind; by Brian Hockings
Opinion:
Alan Jordan
Insert:
Early Intervention; by Chris Chamberlain and Guy Johnson
The July Out of Sight? Homelessness in Remote Australia Edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial
News
Homelessness in San Francisco
By Netty Horton
Commentary:
Welfare Breaching: Helping/Punishing
The Poor Through Tough Love
By Philip Mendes
Feature - Out of Sight? Homelessness in Remote Australia
The Homeless Treadmill
By Mike Bowden
Rural Youth Homelessness:
Has the Bough Broken?
By Jane Farrin
Travelling North
By Jason Stott
Homeless Because I am Sick
By Dragon Rostoku and Frank Mills
Rural and Isolated Accommodation
Services
By Kim Stokes
Housing for Health
Stephan Rainow, Paul Pholeros and
Dr Paul Torzillo
An Illusion of Equity
- Lifting the Lid
By Pat Fogarty
A Brief Insight into Homelessness
in the Kimberley
By Camille Inifer
Housing - A Rural Perspective - 22
An Experience in Itself
Jasmine Siggs
Opinion:
William Tilmouth, Executive Director
Tangentyere Council, Alice Springs
The August Centrelink and Homelessness Edition of Parity
Contents:
Editorial
News
Homelessness in San Francisco
By Netty Horton
Commentary:
Welfare Breaching: Helping/Punishing
The Poor Through Tough Love
By Philip Mendes
Feature - Out of Sight? Homelessness in Remote Australia
The Homeless Treadmill
By Mike Bowden
Rural Youth Homelessness:
Has the Bough Broken?
By Jane Farrin
Travelling North
By Jason Stott
Homeless Because I am Sick
By Dragon Rostoku and Frank Mills
Rural and Isolated Accommodation
Services
By Kim Stokes
Housing for Health
Stephan Rainow, Paul Pholeros and
Dr Paul Torzillo
An Illusion of Equity
Lifting the Lid
By Pat Fogarty
A Brief Insight into Homelessness
in the Kimberley
By Camille Inifer
Housing - A Rural Perspective An Experience in Itself
Jasmine Siggs
Opinion:
William Tilmouth, Executive Director
Tangentyere Council, Alice Springs
The September Pathways: Causes and Consequences Edition of Parity
Contents
Preface (and Acknowledgements)
Introduction: Still Searching for the Pathways
By Margaret Hamilton, CEO, Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre
Chapter 1:
Substance Abuse and Homelessness
Homelessness and Drugs - Links between Experiences
By Michael Horn, Policy Officer, Hanover Welfare Services
Street-Based Heroin Markets and Homelessness
By Robyn Dwyer, Research Fellow, Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre.
Young, Homeless and Caught in the Middle of a War
By Paul Hogan, Youth Substance Abuse Service
Heroin Use as a Form of Self-Medication
By Peter Norden, S.J. Director, Jesuit Social Services
A Suitable Case for Treatment
By Tony Palmer,Youth Substance Abuse Service
Ideological Perspectives Of Our Responses To Drug Use
By Gordon Storey, Executive Officer, Self Help
Addiction Resource Centre Inc.
Young Homeless People and Problematic Drug Use
By Tricia Szirom and Kathy Desmond, Success Works Pty Ltd
Chapter 2:
Homelessness
The Effect of Homelessness for Clients Completing a Withdrawal Program
By Heather Carmichael, Post Withdrawal Support Worker, Moreland Hall
Heroin users, housing and social participation
Attacking social exclusion through better housing
By Dr. James Rowe, Centre for Applied Social Research, Dept of Social Science &
Planning, RMIT University
Chapter 3:
Governmental Responses
Drug and Alcohol Use Among Those Experiencing
Homelessness
By the Victorian Homelessness Strategy Project Team, Office of Housing, Department
of Human Services
Victorian Government Drug Initiatives - Management And Partnerships
By Irene Tomaszewski, Manager, Drugs Policy Unit, and Sue Edwards, Policy Project
Officer, Drug Policy and Services Branch, Department of Human Services
Chapter 4:
The Homeless and Drug Dependency Trial
By Kim Rayner, Project Manager, Homeless and Drug Dependency Trial
and John Bamborough, Project Worker, Homeless and Drug Dependency Trial
Homeless and Drug Dependency Trial
Compiled by Russel Wilson
Ozanam Community Model Overview
By Lawrie Hall, Alcohol and Drug Counsellor,
Ozanam Community Centre
Hanover Southbank Model Overview
By Melissa Dragani, Hanover Welfare Services
Flagstaff Model Overview
By Darren Schwartz, Flagstaff Crisis Accommodation
Chapter 5:
Models, Practice and Service Delivery
"She's got a ticket to ride and they don't care."
By Andrew Bruun, Youth Substance Abuse Service
A New Approach to Outreach Services
By Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre
Working With Substance Abuse at a Community Centre for the Homeless
By Lawrie Hall, Alcohol and Drug Counsellor, Ozanam Community Centre
Homelessness and Home-based Withdrawal
By Rob Lacy and Ray Stephens, Turning Point
Alcohol and Drug Centre
Women, Children Homelessness and Problematic Drug Use
By Lynette Hogan, Swinburne University
Supporting Siblings Within Families to Reduce Problematic Youth Substance Use and
Prevent Youth Homelessness
By Julia Cernaz, John W. Toumbourou and Craig Hodges, Centre for Adolescent
Health.
Chapter 6:
From The Coalface
The Outreach Illicit Drug Project
By Angie Nyland
Tania: Only One of Many
Anonymous.
Including Client Voices in Policy/Program
Development
By Rob Testro, Senior Outreach Worker, Youth Substance Abuse Service
and Craig Fry, Research Fellow, Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre Inc
Problematic Drug Use and Homelessness: A Case Example
By Melinda Watts, Case worker for the Adult and Family Services Program at
Melbourne Citymission.
Chapter 7:
Local Government Initiatives
Yarra
By Nick Matteo, Human Services Planner, Community Development Directorate, City
of Yarra
Port Phillip
By Peter Streker, City of Port Phillip
Maribyrnong
By Kath Kelly, Illicit Drug Strategy Project Officer
Opinion: Homelessness and Drugs
By David Murray,
CEO Youth Substance Abuse Service
The October Working Together Edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial
News
An Eastern SAAP Network (ESN)
Community Development Recipe
Homelessness in Europe
By Netty Horton
Launch of the September Parity
"Pathways": A Collaboration that Worked
By Claire Holden
Feature: Working Together
Approaches to Tackling Homelessness
in the United Kingdom:
Inclusion Through Collaboration?
By Dr Isobel Anderson
Partnerships in Action:
Argyle Street and the Salvation Army Crisis Services
By Sue Grigg and Guy Johnson
Accommodating Homeless Campers
in Adelaide's Parklands
By Ralph Oliveri
Kids Under Cover Making a Difference for Young People in Need
By Petrina Dorrington
Working Together for
People with Acquired Brain Injury
By Fay Rice
Programs Working Together:
Simple Solutions to Complex Problems
By the VHS Project Team
Background to Primary Care
Partnerships
By Kristi Richardson
Opinion- Anthony Albanese
The November Post-Release and Homelessness Edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial
News
The 2001 National Housing Conference:
A Critical Report
By Roksana Khan
Feature: Post Release
and Homelessness
Homelessness and
the Criminal Justice System
By Dr Eileen Baldry
The Trauma of Release
By Angie Sacco and Ruth Brown
The Harsh Realities of Social Security
Payments for Released Prisoners
By Andrew Boulton
Post Release Issues
and Accommodation
By Julia Davis
Prisoners Post Release
By Emma Ogilvie
Making the Right Connections
By Ernie Hansen
Post Release Homelessness
for Women in South Australia
By Cécile Dutreix
Housing Issues For Prisoners
on Release and Families of Prisoners in Queensland
By Fiona Begg
Housing Pathways Initiative
By Diane Godfrey
Opinion: Father Peter Norden
2002
The January Public Space: Whose Space? Edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial
News
Leaving Care And Homelessness
By Philip Mendes
The Privatisation of Public Space
By Bryan Lipmann
Public Spaces, Public Stories:
Long-Term Homelessness In Fortitude Valley
By Anne Coleman
Understanding Begging
in our Public Spaces
By Michael Horn
Responses To Indigenous People
Living In Public Spaces
By Paul Memmott
Negotiating the Contradictions:
Working with Homeless Young People in Shopping Centres
By Myra Ng
Illegal Drug Use in Public Space
By Heather Scovell
Homelessness and Public Space:
Unwelcome Visitors
By Chris Middendorp
The Impact Of Illegal Drugs
By Helen Zahopoulos
A Katherine Christmas Card
By Christopher Howse
Opinion - Alan Fairley
Social Planner, Adelaide City Council
The February Responding to Family Homelessness Edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial
News
Changing Times for the Support and
Accommodation Rights Service (SARS)
Victorian Homelessness Strategy
Action Plan and Strategic Framework
Getting Serious about
Family Homelessness in Australia
By Amanda Vanstone
Family Homelessness A Story of Exclusion and Violence
By Kathy Bell
Measuring `Unmet Demand`
For Homeless Families In The Geelong (Barwon) Region - An initiative of Bethany
Community Support Inc.
Homelessness and Family Homelessness
in Western Australia
By Von Bromilow
Teach Your Children Well - Third Generation
Clients - Is Homelessness the Norm?
By Ara Cresswell
Family Homelessness and Children
By George Giuliani and Naomi McNamara
Northern Region Children's
Resource Program
By Naomi McNamara
Young Families - On The Increase
And Growing, But With Nowhere To Go!
By Sue Carlile
Karpandi Women's Centre
By Lin Turner and Cathy Vockins
The Gendered Face of
"Family Homelessness": Women,
Children and Domestic and Family Violence
By Julie Oberin
Homeless Families in the East
By Leigh Woolcock
Homeless and Parenting
By Dorothy Belperio
Opinion: Terry Bartholomew
The March Exiting Homelessness Edition of Parity
Contents:
Editorial
Family Homelessness in Queensland
SARS Update
Exit Here: Getting Out of Homelessness
By Terry Burke
The Impact of Tenant Databases
By Lisa Woodgate
Gits on Exiting
By Warwick Madden
Exiting, Housing and Women in Need
By Mel Austin
'SAAP is one program with
no gatekeepers': Exit points in SAAP
Dr Rodney Fopp
Exit: Nowhere
By Yehuwdiy Dillon
Re-thinking Exit Points
By Sue Grigg and Guy Johnson
Inflows and Outflows
By Ken Ferdinands
Opinion: Jennifer Westacott
Director of Housing, DHS
The Victorian Homeless Strategy (VHS)
The April Young People Mental Health and Homelessness Edition of Parity
Contents:
Editorial
New CHP Staff Members
SARS UPDATE - The sharing of
service experience and knowledge
The Information Privacy Act - 2000
Mental Health in
Homeless Young People
by Helen Mildred
Young People, Mental Health
and Homelessness
By Rebecca Johnson & Trish Bulic
Constraints In Working With Homeless Young People Facing Mental Health Issues
by Vicki Sarikoudis
Working Holistically With Young People
With A Dual Diagnosis: An Outreach Perspective
By Daina Fail and Molly O'Shaughnessy
What Works for Me Video
"Enhancing the Mental Wellbeing
of Young People" Project
By Annette Rudd
One of Many
By Annette Bagley and Roseanne Murphy
Young People, Homelessness
and Dual Diagnosis: The SUMITT Homeless Perspective
By Simone Pica and Kristen Kappel
"But to Live Outside the Law,
you Must be Honest…"from "Absolutely Sweet Marie" Blonde on Blonde by Bob
Dylan
By Vaughan Winther
Is Domestic Violence Sapped By SAAP?
By Dr Rhonda Cumberland
Opinion: Leanne Craze
Do you have an appointment?
The May Working with People With Complex Needs Edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial
News
Support and Accommodation Rights Service - SARS Update
Feature Camp Coorong: It is Sometimes
Necessary to Retreat to Move Ahead
By the CHAST Aboriginal Outreach Team in partnership with the Salvation Army
Sobering Up Unit Aboriginal Outreach Team
Assisting Homeless People with
Complex Needs Access and Sustain Public Housing
By Stephen Nash
Issues When Working With
People With Complex Needs
By Michael O'Kelly
Responding to People with
High and Complex Needs Project
Operations Division, Department of Human Services, Victoria
Towards 'Client Centred'
Service Provision For Homeless People With High And Complex Needs.
By Carole Zufferey
Jack's Story - A Case Study
Children's Needs are Complex Too!
By Kim Purdey
An Overview of the City Homeless
Assessment Support Team,
A Unit of the Royal Adelaide Hospital
By Ania Twardowski
The Sr Francesca Healy Cottage,
St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne
By Ellie Corbo
If The Hat Doesn't Fit
By Karen Mitchell and Sandy Mudie
Vulnerable Adults Project
Adelaide City Council/Home and Community Care Project
By Jane Reed
Opinion - Julie Goodall
The July Affordable Housing Edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial
News
The Community Connection Program
Affordable Housing:
Policy Knight or Trojan Horse?
By Hal Bisset
Homelessness and Affordable,
Accessible Housing The Policy Relationship
By Thomas Muller
A New Proposal To Expand Housing Supply
By Dr Kim Hawtrey
Affordable Rental Housing in Rural Australia?
By Andrew Beer
Preparing for a Diverse
Affordable Housing Sector
By Helen Wood
Private Rental Brokerage:
An Opportunity and a Limited Policy Response
By David Wright-Howie
New Housing Delivery Models
By Roksana Khan
Private Rental - Who needs it?
By Chris Halsey
Caravan Park Closures: losing affordable
housing or increasing homelessness?
By Emma Greenhalgh
Opinion
The August Early Intervention Edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial
New Research On Early Intervention
By David Mackenzie and Chris Chamberlain
Early Intervention - Not Just for the Young Wintringham's Housing and Outreach
Program - Melbourne City
By Kate Rice
Under the Shelter, Children and Violence, Music Development Project
By Dawn House
Reconnect: Early Views of Early Intervention
By Sheila Shaver and Ceri Evans
The Melbourne Magistrates Court of Victoria
The Enforcement Review Project
Early Intervention: Buzz Word or Starting Point?
By Gill Westthorp
Demystifying Dual Diagnosis
By Michael J. Cole
Improving the Referral Pathways to Employment Assistance for Those Experiencing
Homelessness
By Sharon Parkinson & Michael Horn
Opinion
A Resident's story
Insert
Intervention in the Welfare Sector
By Julie Oberin
The September Rights, Participation and Advocacy Edition of Parity
Contents
Women's Housing as a Human Right
By Caroline Lambert
Housing as a Human Right - What's it all about?
By Livia Carusi and Sue Coleman
The Role Of Advocacy In Promoting Young People's Rights
By Paula Grogan
Centrelink Rights Participation and Advocacy
By Elizabeth Richards & Shane Dinnison
Young People - Waiting To "Inherit The Earth"
By Chris Halsey
Enough is Enough
By Anne Gosley
Participation Or Scapegoating?
By Fay Rice
Advocating for Housing Policy Change
By Hazel Blunden
SAAP Networks as advocates for people experiencing homelessness
By Anna Fieldhouse
Homelessness, Public Housing and Racial Discrimination in the Northern Territory
By Cassandra Goldie
The Role of Advocacy for those in CRU's 21
By Michelle Marven
RecLink Australia: encouraging social participation
By Paula Marsh
People participation - Having Our Say Project
The role of advocacy in promoting the rights of people connected with the
homelessness service system (SAAP)
Advocacy for Public Housing Tenants
By Mark O'Brien
Opinoion Page: Advocacy Never Stops
By Ara Cresswell
The October The Changing Face and Causes of Homelessness Edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial
Homelessness: Now and Then
By Terry Bourke
The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same...
By Michael Horn
Is there a cause of homelessness, or should we just focus on homelessness as a
cause?
By Karen Crinall
The Politics and Practice of Defining Homelessness
By Guy Johnston
Time To Talk About Housing
By Vicki Wagner
Domestic Violence and the Manifold Causes of Homelessness
By Basia
Too Many Homeless
By Tim Matheson
Hearing Voices
By Stone
Family homelessness: Evolving Understandings, but Static Responses
By Terry Bartholomew
The causes of homelessness - An unpopular account of a popular cause!
By Rodney Fopp
Opinion Page
By Tony McCosker
Insert - Eviction Predictions
By Michele Slatter and Andrew Beer
The November Meeting the Needs of Older People Edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial
Homeless People: Hidden and Vulnerable
Homeless Indigenous Older People
By Susie Costello, Mike Berry, Linda Briskman and Thami Ngwenya
Older and homeless in Adelaide? Where to?
By Beverley Iadarola
2020: A Vision for Aged Care in Australia
By Helen Morris
Funding Needs to Come From Many Sources
By Bryan Lipmann
Housing Histories Of Marginalised Men Growing Old In The Inner City
By Associate Professor Cherry Russell, Dr Margaret Charles and Ms Maree Porter
The Legal Needs Of Older People 18
By Julia Perry Sarah Ellison and Roberto Buonamano
Exploring The Role of Local Government 22
By Kate Incerti
How Old Is Old? 25
By Sue White
Disability And Inability
By Catherine Bridge, Hal Kendig, Susan Quine and Karen Pepper
Salvation Army Services to Older Clients
By Kevin Hecker
Preventing Homelessness Amongst Older People
By Zoe Probyn and Dianne McLelland
Preventing Homelessness Among Older People: The British experience
By Maureen Crane and Anthony M.Warnes
Homelessness among older people: a comparative study
By Alice Rota-Bartelink
Centrelink Services - Options to Help You
Affordable Recreation
By Sylvia J Geddes
Promoting The Rights Of People Living In Supported Residential Services.
By The Office of the Public Advocate
Ageing, Housing, Service Provision and Wellbeing
By Debbie Faulkner
Lifestyle And Living In A Caravan Park.
By Dorothy Secomb
Place and Well being for Older Australians
By Jenny Macaffer
Opinion: Bryan Lipmann A.M.
2003
February Homelessness - Global Solutions Edition of Parity
Contents:
Editorial
The USA: National Movements for the Homeless
The Costs of Homelessness: Evidence from the US and Canada
Canada: the Toronto Homelessness Strategy
FEANTSA: the View from Continental Europe
Shelter UK: Working for Change
England's Social Exclusion Unit
Child Poverty Action Group: Poverty and Ethnicity in Britain
The Scottish Council for Single Homelessness
Food and Homelessness: International Responses
Opinion: Australia: a Decade of Change
By Netty Horton
The March The National Homelessness Conference Edition of Parity
Contents:
New Staff at CHP: Meg Mundell, Youth Policy Officer
Feature:
Homelessness Strategies in Australia: Will They Make A Difference?
Homelessness and the
By Phil Lynch
No Exit
By Colin Robinson
On the Way Out: Evictions and the Eviction Process
By Michele Slatter
Taking Clients Out of the Too Hard Basket: Unpacking 'High and Complex Needs
By Jacqui Pearce
The Woolloomooloo Homelessness Project
By Elena Katrakis
Achieving Sustainable Outcomes for Older Homeless People
By Kay Kavanagh, Dr Bruce Judd and Dr Alan Morris
Living Well? Homeless Young People in Melbourne
By Ben Rossiter, Shelley Mallett, Paul Myers and Doreen Rosenthal
Ampe akweke Place: Alice Springs NT
By Sylvia Neale
Activism, Drugs and Rent: Accommodation for those at Risk
By Ralf Matters
An Amiable and Earnest Relationship
By Shelly Sabey and Steve Kilroy
Childhood Sexual Assault and Homelessness
By David Tully
Rights, Advocacy and People Participation - Responding to the Challenge
Prepared by Livia Carusi
By Kim Rayner and Bill Couche
Spanning the Divide: SAAP Funded Services and Centrelink - A Service Partnership in
Progress
Opening the Referral Gateway
By Sharon Parkinson
Housing Drought in Central Queensland
By Wendy Yardy and Steve Thompson
From Psych Ward to SAAP and Back again?!
By the Top End Association for Mental Health
The Under-Belly Of The Architect Rises To The Occasion
By Col James, AM
No Place For Home: Residential Park Decline And Older People
By Emma Greenhalgh and Joy Connor
Assertive Outreach And The Hidden Homeless
By Frank Hall
Women And Homelessness: Innovative Practice And Exit Pathways
By Dr Barbara Adkins and Emma Greenhalgh
African Australian Housing Options: Australia the Lucky Country
By Liz Ng and Melanie Field-Pimm
The Perth Aboriginal Family Homelessness Study
By Chantal Roberts and Leanne Burgess, Centrecare
Fitting the Model to the Family: An Innovative Safe Refuge Model for Women and
Children
By Julie Oberin and Ken Marchingo
Opinion: Narelle Clay - The importance of the 3rd National Homelessness Conference
'Beyond the Divide'
The April After Deinstitutionalisation Edition of Parity
Contents:
Editorial
News
A New Approach to Assisting Young Homeless Job Seekers
By Michael Horn
Feature The End of Institutions: Housing and Homelessness
By Associate Professor David Green
The Housing Deficit Report: No Vacancy
By the Northern Residential Mental Health Services Reference Group
Homelessness and Serious Mental Illness and Human Service Networks
By Theo Hastings
Housing and Homelessness: One Consumer's View
By Bernie McCormick
Deinstitutionalisation -What Does it Mean in the Modern World of Mental Health?
By Ron Collinson
Understanding Iterative Homelessness: The Case of People with Mental Disorders
By Dr. Catherine Robinson
Deinstitutionalisation & Homelessness Mentally Ill and Missing Out
By Kent Burgess
The Social Model of Health: Bridging the Gap Between the Health and Homelessness
Sectors
By Alice Ryan and Vicki Sarikoudis
Opinion - Arthur Papakotsias
The May Gambling and Homelessness Edition of Parity
Contents
News
Youth Homelessness Action Plan Sector Briefing
The Homeless Peoples Association Homelessness, Human Dignity and Human Rights
Feature: Gambling and Homelessness
Gambling and Homelessness in New South Wales
By Dr Charlotte Fabiansson
A Salvo View of Homelessness and Gambling
By John Dalziel
Gambling and Homelessness: The Big Issue
By Marianne Mahony
Gambler's Help Southern Vulnerable Groups Project
By the Borderlands Cooperative
The Council of Gambler's Help Services (Victoria)
Gambling and Homelessness -A Hidden Link?
By Paul Delfabbro
Gambling, Homelessness and Social Justice
By Chris Talbot
Gambling and Homelessness
By Marilyn Webster
Gambling… a Hidden Problem
By Tassia Michaleas
1 in 14
By Mark Henley
Putting Your House On It
By Anne Tuohey
Opinion: Anne Gosley
Homeless People's Association
Fundraiser and Spokesperson
The June On the Outside - Revisiting Post Release Issues Edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial
News
Rooming Houses in the of "Insecure Housing"
By Beth Harris
Victorian Homelessness Targeting The High Risk Groups - Pathway Initiatives
By Peter Lake
NEW Research at UWS
WESNET's successful tender
Feature: On The Outside - Revisiting Post Release Issues
Getting Out and Surviving: Providing Support to Women Exiting Prison
By Kathya Martyres
Transitional Services within the Corrections Systems
By Jocelyn Bignold
Community Housing and Ex-Prisoners
By Andrew Meehan
Homelessness and Women Exiting Prison
By Cécile Dutreix
Ex-Prisoners, Housing and Social Integration
By Eileen Baldry, Desmond McDonnell, Peter Maplestone and Manu Peeters
Post Institutional Homelessness: Young People in Victoria
By Vaughan Winther
Ex-Prisoners and Accommodation in Victoria and NSW - Observations on the
Research Experience
By Peter Maplestone and Manu Peeters
Opinion: The Flat Out Collective
Insert
The THM-Corrections Pathways Initiative
By Bayram Aktepe and Peter Lake
The July Homelessness and Children Edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial
News
Changes to the Victorian Residential Tenancies Act
By Tania McKenna
Feature: Homelessness and Children
Homelessness and Early Childhood Research
By Rosemary Rogers
Children in SAAP: A Brief Analysis of the National Data Collection
By Rodney Fopp and Stephen Parker
Family Homelessness Prevention Pilot - Update
By the Department of Family and Community Services
FHPP - A Snapshot
'Somewhere safe for my children' - Interim findings from the Hanover Family
Longitudinal Outcomes Study
By Violet Kolar
When Leaving Care Leads to Homelessness
By Sunitha Raman
The Collaborative Practice Development Project
By Wendy Bennett
FaCS Achieves Success With Caravan Park Pilots
By Fiona Tulloh
Responding to Children in SAAP Services who also have a Parent affected by Mental
Illness
By Rose Cuff and Kim Purdey
Opinion: Coleen Clare, Chief Executive Officer, Children's Welfare Association of
Victoria
Insert
Home, Sweet Home: Children, Family/Domestic Violence and Homelessness
By Vikki Stone
A Childhood Lost?
By Jill Evans
Children in SAAP DV Services
By Elizabeth Williamson
Children in SAAP
By Denise Witt and Belinda Davies
The August New Responses to Young People and Homelessness Edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial
Feature:
Young Homeless People in Australia 2001-2002
A Report from the SAAP National Data Collection
By Anne Giovanetti, Project Leader, Reporting, Supported Accommodation and Crisis
Services Unit, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Breaking the Jobless/Homeless Cycle: "Foyers": in the Australian Context
By Narelle Clay and Michael Coffey
The Youth Homelessness Action Plan
By the Homelessness Assistance Unit, Office of Housing, Department of Human
Services, Victoria
Towards a National Response to Youth Homelessness
By Donna Curtis, NYCH Chairperson
After Burdekin - A Brief Evaluation 14 years On
By Rodney Fopp, University of South Australia
Quality Relationships, Not Quantity
By Kim Burns, Coordinator, Hanover Young Women's Intensive Support Service
No Longer Stuck in Silence
Ways Forward in Responding to Sexual Abuse and Other Childhood Trauma in SAAP
Services
By David Tully, SideStreet Counselling, Adelaide Central Mission
Social Health Injustice and Hep C
By Christopher Talbot, Executive Manager, Research and Development, Adelaide
Central Mission
Dual Diagnosis: Implications for Young People
By Sarah Marrinan, Eastern Dual Diagnosis Service, Andrea Herman and Suzanne
Stewart, Northern Nexus, Lidor Arbel-Itzhari and Brenton Woolfe, Southern Dual
Diagnosis Service
Progress or Procrastination?
By Donna Bennett, Service Manager, Hope St Youth and Family Services Inc.
Bridging the Digital Divide: Enhancing Homeless Young People's Access to Computers
By Paula Grogan, Policy Officer, Youth Affairs Council of Victoria
Simple, Strategic, Successful: Applying Local Research to Innovative Responses on a
Shoestring in the Northern Territory's Palmerston and Rural Region
By Sibylle Kaczorek, Coordinator Youth Housing, Dean Fraser, Coordinator Connect
Youth Homelessness Early Intervention Service and Ann Buxton, Manager Youth
Programs at Anglicare NT
THM - Juvenile Justice Housing Pathways Initiative
By the Community Programs Group, Office of Housing, Department of Human
Services, Victoria
Reconnect
A Recommendation For Change
Developing a case for changed policy and practice in relation to young people who
are homeless and in need of protection.
By Belinda Drew, Queensland Youth Housing Coalition
HOT Project - Youth Accommodation Association NSW Inc
By Adrian Foon, on behalf of the HOT Project.
Opinion: Outside the Bubble: Who Owns Homelessness?
By Meg Mundell, Youth Policy Officer,
Council to Homeless Persons
The September Comparative Homelessness Strategies Edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial
Feature: Comparative Homelessness Strategies
The National Homelessness Strategy
By Ellen Wood
The National Homelessness Strategy: Time for Action
By Ara Creswell
The ACT Homelessness Strategy
By Bill Wood MLA
The Victorian Homelessness Strategy
By Tony Newman
The Victorian Homelessness Strategy: An Incremental Service Reform Agenda
NSW Partnership Against Homelessness
By the Homelessness Unit, NSW Department of Housing
Partnerships With Whom? Background to Partnerships Against Homelessness
By Hazel Blunden
Queensland Government Responses to Homelessness
By Anne Coleman
Choices, Options and Outcomes: Talking Across the Homelessness Divide in
Queensland
By Jeremy Hill
Homelessness and Other Strategies in the Northern Territory
By Jill Rechner
The Western Australian State Homelessness Strategy
Tasmanian Homelessness Strategies
By Liz Murray
It's still tough out there.
By Mike Newbigin
South Australia's Policy Approach on Addressing Homelessness
By the Social Inclusion Unit, Dept for the Premier and Cabinet
Halving Homelessness
By Yvonne Barker
Opinion: David Wright-Howie
Insert: Homelessness Strategy in Scotland
By Brendon Buck
October Responding to Indigenous Homelessness Edition of Parity
Contents
Victorian Homelessness Strategy Indigenous Service Mapping Project
By Tony Newman
Queensland's Safer Places with Newer Opportunities -Addressing Indigenous
Homelessness
By Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy
Sustaining Indigenous Tenants at Risk of Eviction - A Victorian Homelessness Strategy
Pilot
By Mark Stracey
The Centrecare National Family Homelessness Project
By Leanne Burgess and Chantal Roberts
Responding to Indigenous Homelessness in South Australia
By the South Australian Aboriginal Housing Authority and the Aboriginal Services
Division of the Department of Human Services
Practice Responses to Indigenous Public Place Dwelling and Homelessness
By Paul Memmott, Steve Long and Cathy Chambers
Victorian Indigenous Family Violence Strategy
By Daphne Yarram
'Why government is treating us like animals?'
By Cassandra Goldie
'The Long Grass' Survey
By Paul Memmott
Opinion: Alex Ackfun
Longgrass - A Way of Life
By Stella Simmering
Cops, why they burn my mattress, clothes, all my handbag and everything?
From the Longgrass Magazine
Darwin City Council -Criminalising the Homeless
By Stella Simmering
The November New Dimensions in Responding to Domestic Violence and
Homelessness Edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial
News
100,000 Homeless: New figures indicate a continuing problem
By Chris Chamberlain and David MacKenzie
Feature: New Dimensions in Responding to Domestic Violence and Homelessness
Preventing the Human Rights Violations of Family Violence
By Rhonda Cumberland
Victoria's Family and Domestic Violence Crisis Protection Framework
By Alison Fraser
Progress In Crisis Accommodation for Women Escaping Violence
By Wendy Weeks
Useful Resources Identified in the Current WESNET Research (2003)
Violence and Homelessness in Young People
By Judy Edwards, Shelley Mallett, Deborah Keys and Doreen Rosenthal
What's New, What's Changing? Family Violence In Victoria
By Libby Eltringham
Staying Home/Leaving Violence
By Robyn Edwards
A Night in the Life of the Women's Domestic Violence Crisis Service
By Christina Davidson
Disclose Family Violence and Risk Homelessness
By Chris Jennings
The Impact 21 Project
By Nancy Smyth
Young Women's Crisis Accommodation
An Innovative 'Mutual Help' Response
By Associate Professor Rosemary Green, Robyn Mason and Alison Ollerenshaw
Gambling and Violence: Placing the Problem Gambler in a Social Context
By Kathryn Seymour
Opinion: Rhonda Cumberland
2004
The February Homelessness, Human Rights and the Law Edition of Parity
Contents
Foreword: Justice Ronald Sackville, Federal Court of Australia
Introduction: Di Otto, Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne
Chapter 1.HOMELESSNESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Phil Lynch, Homeless Persons Legal Clinic: The Utility of Human Rights to Homeless
People and their Advocates
Fionn Skiotis, COHRE: The Housing is a Human Right Project (HIHRP): Advancing the
Human Right to Housing in Victoria
Dan Nicholson, COHRE, Australia's Obligations and the Human Right to Adequate
Housing
Susan Plowright, DHS Victoria, A Charter of Rights for People Experiencing and at
Risk of Homelessness
Julia Canty-Waldron, HomeGround Services, A Charter of Rights: A Service
Perspective
Greg Oke, Member of the Charter of Rights Reference Group, Towards a User Rights
Culture
Kenneth Fernandes, Coordinator, COHRE, Reclaiming Housing Rights: Homeless
Peoples' Participation is Essential
Glen Menner, The Australian Social and Economic Rights Project (ASERP) - lessons for
housing rights advocacy
Steve Jeanneret, Accommodation Services Manager, Integrated Family and Youth
Service, Exclusion in SAAP Services
Phil Lynch, Homeless Persons Legal Clinic, Human Rights and the Supported
Accommodation Assistance Program (SAAP)
Anne Coleman, Homelessness and Human Rights: From Rhetoric to Reality
Livia Carusi, Executive Officer, Financial and Consumer Rights Council Inc. (Previous
Coordinator of SARS), Human Rights, the Supported Accommodation Assistance
Program (SAAP) and Advocacy
Chapter 2. HOMELESSNESS AND THE LAW
Tamara Walsh QUT, "Legal Issues Confronting People Who are Homeless"
Lou Schetzer: NSW Law and Justice Foundation "The Legal Needs of Homeless
Persons in NSW Project"
Jelena Popovic, Melbourne Magistrates Court, "The Role of the Courts"
Peter Horbury, Welfare Rights Unit, Social Security/Centrelink Issues:
Julie Stubbs, Faculty of Law, Sydney University, Domestic Violence, Laws and
Homelessness in Australia
Cameron Horn, TUV, Residential Tenancy Issues
Naomi Bailey et al, HomeGround Services, The Human Cost of the Law for Homeless
People
Homeless People's Association: The Human Impact of the Law on Homelessness
Chapter 3. LEGAL RESOURCES FOR HOMELESS PEOPLE
Victor Stojcevski, Victoria Legal Aid, Access to Legal Assistance for Homeless People
Fionn Skiotis, COHRE
Alison Aggarwal, Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing
Michelle Rabsch, PILCH NSW, A Homeless Persons Legal Service for
NSW
Phil Lynch, PILCH Homeless Persons Legal Clinic:
Janelle Thomas and Sue Coleman, SARS, Beyond Wishful Thinking: Opportunities
Presented by the
Current Reforms in Victoria's Homeless Service System
Stan Winford, Fitzroy Legal Service, Drug offences outreach programs: Fitzroy Legal
Service/Drug Project
Chapter 4. GENERAL/GENERIC ISSUES
Michele Bradfield QPILCH, Public Space Issues/Loitering/"Vagrancy"
Jane Sanders, Shopfront, Policing, Moving on and Fines: The Bane of Young People at
Risk of Homelessness
Peter Alexander, BLAG, Tenants Union of NSW, Great Expectations: In Pursuit of
Legislative Reform for Boarders in NSW
Amy Richardson, Redfern Legal Centre, The Erosion Of Housing In Australia: From A
Right To A Privilege
Chris Howse, NT Aboriginal Legal Centre, The Full Protection of the Law?: A Case
Study
Cassandra Goldie, Director, Homelessness Legal Rights Project, Indigenous People
and Public Space: The use of 'move on' powers in Darwin, Northern Territory, and
associated legal challenges
Eve Stagoll, Refugee and Immigration Legal Centre, Legal assistance for
Refugees/TPV holders"
Anita Spitzer, Homelessness and Disability
Meg Mundell CHP, Voting Rights:
Amanda Sapienza and Natalie Shekel, Mallesons Stephen Jaques ,
Water, Electricity and Gas In Victoria: Rights of People With Payment Difficulties
Fiona Seymour Mental Health Legal Centre, Mental Health and the Law
Chapter 5. CONCLUSION
Cassandra Goldie, Director, Homelessness Legal Rights Project, Telling Stories
OPINION PAGE: Phil Lynch: Director, Homeless Persons Legal Clinic
The March Rooming Houses Edition of Parity
Contents
1. Rooming Houses: A Victorian Government Approach
By Mary Marshall, Senior Policy Officer, Singles and Family, Office of Housing,
Victorian Department of Human Services
2. Social Responsibility Meets Private Provision in the Rooming House Sector
By Beverley Kliger
3. Rooming House Legislation in Victoria: a History
By Bill Grimshaw and Colleen Power, Rooming House Workers, Tenants Union of
Victoria
4. Rooming House Policy Initiatives
By Michelle Marven, Policy and Liaison Worker, Tenants Union of Victoria
5. The Tenants Union Model of Rooming House Service
By Tania McKenna and Colleen Power, Rooming House Workers, Tenants Union of
Victoria
6. Its No Palace: Resident Perspectives on Boarding House Life
By Nancy Rogers, Principle Research and Evaluation Officer, Department of Human
Services South Australia
7. The Residential Services Monitoring and Sector Development Project
By Judith Hemingway, Project Worker, Tenants Union of Queensland
8. The Boarders and Lodgers Project
By Indi Evans, Newtown Neighbourhood Centre
9. Utilising Private Rooming Houses within the Homeless Service System
By Nicola Wylie and Julia Canty-Waldron, Argyle Housing, HomeGround Services
10. National Reforms to Boarding Houses and Supported Residential Facilities
Mark Bagshaw, Senior Policy Officer, Department of Human Services South Australia
11. View From A Roomer
By James May
12. Health Issues in Rooming Houses
By Joan Kikos, Community Health Nurse, RDNS Homeless Persons Program
13. Roomers Magazine: By Residents for Residents
By Pip Mackay, Project Coordinator Roomers Magazine
14. Housing and Homelessness @ Infoxchange Australia
By Jane Burrows, Housing Content and Communications Officer, Infoxchange
Australia
15. Protecting the Tenant
By Cameron Horn, Principle Solicitor, Tenants Union of Victoria
17. Opinion Page,
By Mark O'Brien, CEO Tenants Union of Victoria
The April One Meal to the Next: Food Assistance and Food Insecurity Edition of
Parity
Contents
Editorial
Letter To the Editor
Feature: One Meal to the Next: Food Assistance and Food Insecurity
Narrowing The Gap: An Integrated Approach to Improving Food Security for
Vulnerable and Homeless People
By Beverley Wood,Consultant in Food, Nutrition and Dietetics
Foodbank Victoria: In the Right Place between Demand and Supply
By Terry O'Hearn, CEO Foodbank Victoria
Foodbank Australia: Passion is Not Enough
By Bronwyn Boekenstein, CEO Foodbank Australia
Hungry and Homeless: Can Food Tokens Help?
Tara Guha, Housing Justice UK
Addressing Food Insecurity: A Social Model of Hunger in a Gentrified Urban
Environment
By Katrina Doljanin, Accrediting Practicing Dietitian, North Yarra Community Health
Banking on It: Victorian Agencies Depend on Foodbank
Some Food For Thought
By Greg Oke
Food Provision: The Challenge
By Tony McCosker, Executive Manager - Community Services, St Vincent de Paul
Aged Care and Community Services
Finding a Bed @ Infoxchange Australia
Australia
Food Insecurity Amongst Homeless Young People In Adelaide
By Sue Booth
Homelessness Food Relief
By Paul Thomas, Victoria Relief
Rosies Van
By Anne Dixon
Opinion
Terry O'Hearn CEO, Foodbank Victoria
Insert
Foodbanking: An International Perspective
By Netty Horton
The May Homelessness and Disability Edition of Parity
Contents
Contested Housing Futures: Deinstitutionalisation Policy in Australia
By Lisa Bostock and Brendan Gleeson
Developing Accommodation People with a Disability: Provider Perspectives from
Victoria and New Zealand
By Joseph Connellan, CEO Supported Housing Limited (Victoria) and Andrew Wilson,
General Manager Properties, IHC New Zealand Inc
At Greater Risk
By Chris Jennings, Project Worker, Violence Against Women with Disabilities Project,
Domestic Violence and Incest Resource Centre
People with a Disability who need Supported Accommodation:
The Role of Pension-Level SRSs
By Robert Reid, Inner South Community Health Centre
A Model that Works
By Chris Glennnen
Program Manager, Supported Housing Ltd
Homelessness and Disability in Australia:
A Report from the SAAP National Data Collection 2002-03
By Chrysanthe Psychogios (Functioning and Disability Unit, AIHW)
Unjustified Hardship: Homelessness and Women with Disabilities
By Carolyn Frohmader, Executive Director, Women With Disabilities Australia
Crisis: What Crisis? This Crisis
By Marija Groen, Manager Housing Resource and Support Services
Women, Disability and Housing: A Violation of Human Rights
By Catherine Gow, Women's Housing Ltd
Q&A with Senator Kay Patterson
Minister for Family and Community Services
Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on the Status of Women
And
Hon Candy Broad MLC
Minister for Housing
Minister for Local Government
Young People in Nursing Homes
By Bronwyn Morkham, Project Officer, Young People In Nursing Homes National
Project
Opinion: Joseph Connellan, CEO Supported Housing Limited
The June New Directions in Program and Service Delivery Edition of Parity
Contents:
Housing and Homelessness @ Infoxchange Australia: Documents and Resources
Feature: New Directions in Program and Service Delivery
1. Breaking the Mould
By Stephen Nash, CEO, HomeGround Services
2. Victorian Homelessness Strategy Mental Health Pilot Project
By Tim Martyn, Research Officer, HomeGround Services
3. Hebersham Aboriginal Youth SAAP — Interim Service Project
By Kel Knox and Winsome Matthews
4. Living Partnerships
By Jenny Plant, Sally Coutts, Salvation Army StKilda Crisis Centre and Julia CantyWaldron, HomeGround Services
5. Assertive Outreach Project
By Tracey Petersen, Western Region Health Centre and Patrick McGee, WIN Support
Services
6. Saving Public Housing Tenancies
By Leonie Lockwood and Trevor Carlisle, HomeGround Services
7. Review and Evaluation of the Nepean Youth Supported Accommodation
Assistance Program Resource Worker Project
By Dr Robert Woog, David Levick and Kel Knox, University of Western Sydney
8. Women’s Supported “Shared Living” Initiative
By Cathy McKenzie, HomeGround Services
9. Youth Participation in Health Services for Young People who are Homeless
By Matt Dixon, Health Promotion Co-ordinator, Young People’s Health Service,
Centre for Adolescent Health
10. Homeless Outreach Worker
By Zoe Vale and Hellene Gronda, HomeGround Services
11. The Blue Mountains Youth Initiative
By David Smith, YSAAP Resouce Worker, Nepean
12. Family Homelessness Prevention Pilot
By Milos Cvjeticanin, Social Worker, Centrelink
13. Tools to Support Homeless Families: A Community Study Develops a Service
System Strategy in Western Sydney
By Sibylle Kaczorek, Community Development/Research worker, San Miguel Family
Centre
14. Opinion: Affordable Housing, A Responsibility to Advocate
Stephen Nash, CEO, HomeGround Services
The July A Concern with Numbers? A Number of Concerns Edition of Parity
CONTENTS
Editorial
A Concern with Numbers? A Number of Concerns
Deb Tsorbaris, CEO, Council to Homeless Persons
Introduction
The SAAP National Data Collection: The Program’s Evidence Base
By Justin Griffin, Manager, SAAP National Data Collection Agency, and Doug
Limbrick, SAAP Information Sub-committee;
Director, Performance Information and Data, Department of Family and Community
Services
Ten Years After: A Bit of History and Some Thoughts
By David MacKenzie, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Social Research,
Swinburne University
The Review of Information Management Planning During SAAP IV
By Penny Ryan, RPR Consulting
The State of Play
Homelessness: ABS
Towards a Better Understanding of Homelessness — Counting The Homeless 2001
Victoria
By Dr Owen Donald, Executive Director of Housing and Community Building,
Towards an Integrated Victorian Homelessness Data Collection
By Kerrily Jeffery, Data Development Project Officer, Homelessness Assistance Unit,
Housing Services, Office of Housing.
Data Regarding People Who Are Homeless: We Have A Good Base But We Need To
Know More
By David Wright-Howie, Policy Officer, Council to Homeless Persons
Domestic Violence and Cultural and Linguistic Diversity
By Anne Giovanetti and Felicity Murdoch, SAAP National Data Collection Agency
What Does the Homeless Data say About Rural Homelessness?
By Fran Rolley and Neil Argent, University of New England
Unmet Demand for SAAP Accommodation
By Joan Reid, SAAP National Data Collection Agency, AIHW
What Can SAAP Data Tell Us About Client Outcomes?
By Rose Lai, SAAP Data Analyst
National SAAP Client Satisfaction Survey
By Barbara Beatty, Department of Family and Community Services, and Joan Young,
Managing Director of Colmar Brunton Social Research
SMART (FAQs)
By Paul Halliday and Justin Griffin, SAAP National Data Collection Agency (NDCA),
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Client Circumstances Before and After SAAP Assistance: An Analysis of the National
Data Collection, 2002–03
By Stephen Parker, University of South Australia
Identifying and Counting SAAP Clients With High And Complex Needs
By Barbara Beatty, Department of Family and Community Services
Clients and Outcome Measurement
By Chris Talbot and Jo Baulderstone
Older SAAP Clients
By Rose Lai, SAAP Data Analyst
Service and Regional Research Program
Issues at Stake
Good News for Whom? Homelessness in Australia: The 1996 and 2001 Census
Results
By Cassandra Goldie, Senior Legal Officer, Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions,
Asia Pacific Program
Where Did the Homeless Go?
By Paul Pendergast, Research and Policy Manager, Shelter WA
‘Official Statistics’: A Brief Analysis of the SAAP National Data Collection
By Dr Rodney Fopp, Senior Lecturer, Sociology, University of South Australia
Data, Women and Violence: Reflecting What Really Happens in SAAP
By Janine Bush, Policy Coordinator, Domestic Violence Victoria
SAAP Data, Good Policy and the Desired State
By Leisa Gibson, Policy and Networking Officer, Australian Federation of
Homelessness Organisations
The Obvious
By Heather Holst, Loddon Mallee Accommodation Network
Privacy Law and Homeless People
By Julian Riekert, Partner, Freyja McCarthy, Lawyer, Chian Kee, Vacation Clerk, Allens
Arthur Robinson
Stats in the Inner City: The Collection Of NDCA Statistics in a Meal and Day Centre in
Inner City Adelaide
By Ian Cox, Chris Horsell, Sharne West and Rosemary Abdallah, The Hutt Street
Centre
Bedless in Brisbane
By Adrian Pisarski, Director, Queensland Shelter
Conclusion(s)
Some Crystal Ball Gazing: SAAP Information Needs in the Future
By Doug Limbrick, Chair, SAAP Information Sub-committee, Director, Performance
Information and Data, Department of Family and Community Services, and Justin
Griffin, Manager, SAAP Nation Data Collection Agency
The Data Challenges Ahead
By Dr Chris Chamberlain, Associate Professor of Housing and Urban Research, RMIT
University
Insert
Use of Data in Evaluations and Reviews: A Consultant’s Perspective
By John Thomson, Thomson Goodall Associates
The August Local Government and Homeless Edition of Parity
CONTENTS
Chapter One – Introduction
Homelessness and Housing Affordability: Priorities for Reform
By Councillor Mike Montgomery, President of the Australian Local Government
Association
Homelessness in the UK: A Strategic Response from Local Government?
By Isobel Anderson, Senior Lecturer in Housing Studies, Stirling University
Chapter Two – In the Mix: Issues for Local Government
‘It’s a good idea but no one wants it in their backyard’ Attitudes Towards
Homelessness in Brisbane
By Emma Greenhalgh, Program Officer, Affordable Housing and Homelessness, Social
Policy Branch, Brisbane City Council
The Long Term Homeless and Socially Excluded: Local Government is also
Responsible
By Felicity Reynolds, Senior Project Co-ordinator, Homelessness, City of Sydney
Homelessness in the Heart of Adelaide
By Stuart Boyd, Social Planner, Adelaide City Council
The Realities About Local Government and Housing
By Gary Spivak, Housing Development Officer, City of Port Phillip
Affordable Housing: NIMBY?
By Cr Gurm Sekhon, City of Yarra
Local Government and Affordable Housing: HALGN Makes the Necessary
Connections
By Taegen Hannah, HALGN
Chapter Three – The Policy Response
Looking Back, Looking Forward: The City Of Sydney Homelessness Strategy
By Felicity Reynolds, Senior Project Co-ordinator, Homelessness and Daniel Thorpe,
Social Planning Co-ordinator, City of Sydney
Responding to Homelessness in Brisbane
By David Hinchliffe, Deputy Mayor and Chair, Community Policy Committee,
Brisbane City Council
Homelessness Policy in the City of Adelaide
By Stuart Boyd, Social Planner, Adelaide City Council
Chapter Four – Local Government Responses to Homeless
The City of Melbourne Social Housing Strategy – Linking People, Homes and
Communities
By Nanette Mitchell, Senior Social Planner, Housing & Homelessness,City of
Melbourne
Innovative and Integrated Responses to Homelessness in Public Space
By Emma Greenhalgh, Program Officer Affordable Housing & Homelessness, Social
Policy Branch, Brisbane City Council
Homeless Persons Information Centre: Acknowledging 20 years of Service
By Mauricio Parraguez, Team Leader, Homeless Persons Information Centre,City of
Sydney
Responding to Homelessness in the Heart of Adelaide
By Stuart Boyd, Social Planner, City of Adelaide
Homelessness: Towards an Integrated Response
By Kate Incerti, City of Port Phillip
Hobart: A Multi-Faceted Response with a Focus on Young People
By Penny Saile, Manager Community Programs, Hobart City Council
Positive Partnerships: Yarra City Council and the Homeless People’s Association
By Sherri Bruinhout, Community Planner — Housing, City of Yarra
Finding Beds for Homeless People in Brisbane
By Fiona Caniglia, Coordinator, New Farm Neighbourhood Centre and Roksana Khan,
Acting Team Leader, Community Development Services, Brisbane City Council
Melbourne Affordable Housing (MAH)
By John Timmer, Melbourne Affordable Housing
On the Threshold
By Ann-maree Ellis, Community Development Coordinator, Ozanam House
Creative Democracy — Homelessness
The City of Perth: Selected City Achievements
By Dr Colin House, Senior Community Development Officer, City of Perth
Chapter Five – Some Reflections
Local Government and Homelessness: Is the Future all Bleak?
By Terry Burke, Swinburne Institute for Social Research
Homelessness or Homefulness?
By Dr Colin House, Senior Community Development Officer, City of Perth
Chapter Six – Online Resources
Online Resources for Housing, Homelessness and Local Government
By Jane Burrows, Housing Content and Communications
The September Health and Homelessness Edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial: Sick and Disenfranchised
Feature: Health and Homelessness
Royal District Nursing Service Homeless Persons Program: Taking Nursing Out There
By Narelle Everard, Community Health Nurse, Royal District Nursing Service
South Eastern Sydney Area Health Service Homelessness Health Strategic Plan 2004–
09
By Adrienne Lucey, Associate Manager,Homelessness Health, SESAHS
Providing Primary Health Care to the Homeless
By Anne Malcolm, Projects Manager/Clinical Nurse Consultant, KRC
Health Issues for Women who are Homeless Due to Family Violence
By Anne Dillon, Family Violence Networker, Women’ Health West
Health Services for Children Living in Caravan Parks
By Kate Cornish, Speech Pathologist and Rebecca Porter, Occupational Therapist,
Western Region Health Centre
Homing in on Allied Health and Homelessness
By Katrina Doljanin and Kathryn Miller
Complementary and Alternative Medicine for People Experiencing Homelessness
By Joan Kikos and Anne Kowalski-Delikat, Royal District Nursing Service
When Health takes a Hit: Health Issues and the Homeless Drug User
By James Rowe, Centre for Social Research, RMIT
The Social Model of Health: What does it Mean for Direct Service Delivery Health
Professionals?
By Alice Ryan, Young People’s Health Service, Centre for Adolescent Health, Royal
Children’s Hospital
Partnership in Primary Health
By Sue White Manager — Access Health
The Sister Francesca Health Cottage (The Cottage)
By Cathy Moore and Karen Phillips, St Vincents Hospital
Homeless Health and Housing Forum
By Susan Timpani, Community Health Nurse/Midwife, Department of Health,
Government of South Australia
Promoting Health Through Participation: The Where the Heart Is... Community
Festival
Working with Insecurely Housed Residents to Improve Health
By Sally Baker, Team Leader/Occupational Therapist, Supported Residential Service
Coordination and Support Service, Western Region Health Centre
Health and Homelessness: Online Resources
Australia
Homelessness Health Issues
By Dr Sam Lees, AMA Victoria President
Working It Out
By Caroline van Gemert, ‘Work It Out’ Project Worker
Opinion —
Theresa Swanborough OAM
Manager, Royal District Nursing Service, Homeless Persons Program
The October “Giving Voice” edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial: The Homeless Voice, the Way Forward and Investing in Common Ground
Giving Voice? or Hearing Voices? A Personal Reflection on the Politics of Speaking
and Listening in the Homelessness Sector
By Dr. Shelly Mallett, Research Director, Project i
Ensuring all Voices are Heard
By Jo Baulderstone, Flinders Institute of Public Policy and Management, Flinders
University of South Australia
The Voice of People Who are Homeless: Some Considerations
By Rodney Fopp, University of South Australia
Giving Voice to the Homeless: Homelessness and the Right to Vote
By Philip Lynch, Coordinator, PILCH Homeless Persons’ Legal Clinic
Giving Voice, or Taking it Away? The Therapeutic Limits of Research
By Dr Catherine Robinson, Social Inquiry, University of Technology, Sydney
Collectively Constructing Standards Promoting Consumer Participation in the
Development of Homelessness Assistance Service Standards.
By Sue Plowright, Project Coordinator, Office of Housing, DHS Victoria
Attempting to Hear the Excluded: The Voice of Homeless People and Policy
Implications
By Dr Rodney Fopp and Stephen Parker, School of International Studies, University of
South Australia
Valuing Difference and Encouraging Discussion
By Sabra Lazarus, Caravan Parks Project, Mornington Peninsula Shire Council
Justice for the Homeless
By Emily Chew, Administrator of the PILCH Homeless Persons’ Legal Clinic and Beth
Midgley, Manager of the PILCH Homeless Persons’ Court Project
Speaking of Homelessness: A Voice too Far?
By Noel Murray, Parity Editor and Jane Burrows, Housing Content and
Communications Officer, Infoxchange Australia
The Voice of the Vulnerable: Partnerships between Service Providers and Service
Users
By Carole Zufferey, Phd Candidate, University of South Australia
Opinion
Anne Gosley
Spokesperson, Homeless Persons Association
The November Public Housing in Australia: Looking Back and Looking Forward
Edition of Parity
Contents:
CHP and AHI Editorials
Public Housing in Australia: Looking Back and Looking Forward
The Future of Public Housing in New Zealand
By Blair Badcock and Arati Waldegrave, Housing New Zealand Corporation,
Wellington, New Zealand
Public Housing in Australia is in Decline: The Facts Speak for Themselves
Public Housing in Australia: A Political Problem
By Tony Dalton, School of Social Science and Planning, RMIT
Governance and Social Housing: Can Good Governance be Bad Practice?
By Professor Terry Burke, Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of
Technology
Public Housing: Residualisation or Reinvigoration?
By Jon Hall
Choice, Diversity and Coordination: Improving Access to Social Housing
By Kath Hulse, Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology
Indigenous Access to Mainstream Public and Community Housing
By Paul Flatau, Murdoch University
Sustaining Tenancies in Public Housing: Motives, Issues and Options
By Dr Tim Seelig and Associate Professor Andrew Jones, AHURI Queensland Research
Centre at the University of Queensland
Public Housing and the ‘Problem’ of Anti-Social Behaviour
By Keith Jacobs, University of Tasmania and Kathy Arthurson, University of South
Australia
On the Horns of a Dilemma: Rent in Australia
By Sean McNelis, Research Fellow, Swinburne Institute for Social Research
Decision Making Challenges in Social Housing
By Lynden Esdaile, Executive Chairperson, NSW Housing Appeals Committee
Tenant Participation In Queensland
By Merrilyn Rowler, President, Queensland Public Tenants Association
Collingwood: A Community In Control
By Kellie Nagle, Coordinator Collingwood Community Information Centre
Urban Renewal: A New Role for Social Housing Providers in Creating Sustainable
Communities?
By Bill Randolph, Professor and Director, AHURI Research Centre, Faculty of the Built
Environment, University of New South Wales
Prioritising Public Housing Estate Renewal Projects: A Business Case Approach
By Marcus Spiller, National President Planning Institute of Australia
Housing Associations: A Future for Public Housing?
By Heather Holst, Stephen Nash, CEO HomeGround Services, and Catherine Upcher,
CEO Rural Housing Network
Community Housing as an Alternative to Public Housing
By Carol Croce, Executive Director, Community Housing Federation of Australia
The Future of Social Housing: Supporting the Social Housing Professional
2005
The February Exclusion/Inclusion Edition of Parity
CONTENTS
Editorial
Introduction
The Hon. John von Doussa QC, President, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity
Commission
Chapter 1:
Homelessness and Social Exclusion
Exclusion and Homelessness in Britain
By Maureen Crane and Anthony M Warnes, Sheffield Institute for Studies on
Ageing,University of Sheffield, England
Social Inclusion and Exclusion
By Andrew Jones, Director, AHURI Queensland Research Centre, University of
Queensland
Broadening Our Understanding of Homelessness
By David Waterford, Social Inclusion Unit, SA Department of Premier and Cabinet
Who is ‘In’ and Who is ‘Other’
By Mark Furlong, Lecturer in Social Work, La Trobe University
Chapter 2:
Homelessness, Exclusion and SAAP
What Does the Data Say About Access to SAAP Services?
By Justin Griffin, Manager, SAAP
National Data Collection Agency, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Assisting Homeless People
By Monica Wolf, NSW Ombudsman’s Office
“Risky Business”
By Michael Coffey, the Youth Accommodation Association and Sue Cripps,
Homelessness NSW,ACT
Exclusion in Practice: The Doctrine of Pre-emption
By Steve Jeanneret, Integrated Family and Youth Service, Queensland
Reflections on “Opening the Debate”
By Lorraine Dupree, Manager, Carina Youth Agency
Including our Homeless Kids
By Leisa Gibson, Policy and Research, Australian Federation of Homelessness
Organisations (AFHO)
Operationalising Inclusive Practices
By Micaela Cronin, Executive Officer, Support Services, St Vincent de Paul, ACCS
Not Enough Support Needs? Not Enough Support!
By Melanie Field-Pimm, Adult & Family Services, Melbourne Citymission and Lynette
Mackenzie, MetroWest Housing Services
"They don’t take young people with mental health issues because they find it too
challenging"
By Deborah Keys, Research Fellow, Project I, University of Melbourne
Homeless Families: SAAP Services are Struggling
By Stephen Kocaj, La Trobe University/Homeground Services
Chapter 3:
Exclusion and Housing
Housing and Social Inclusion/Exclusion
By Kathy Arthurson, University of South Australia and Keith Jacobs, University of
Tasmania
Defining Social Exclusion
By Bill Randolph and Dominique Murray, Faculty of the Built Environment, University
of New South Wales
(That’s) No Way to Say Goodbye: The Risks of Rent Arrears
By Michele Slatter
From Exclusion to Inclusion
By Bruce Judd, Alan Morris and Kay Kavanagh, University of New South Wales AHURI
Research Centre and the Mercy Arms, Waterloo
Everybody Knows: Sex Discrimination in Housing
By Janet Adkins and Michele Slatter
Residential Tenancy Databases
By Eloise Curry, Volunteer, PILCH Homeless Persons Legal Clinic
Chapter 4:
Grievances, Complaints, Advocacy and Legal Frameworks for Exclusion/Inclusion
Homelessness, Human Rights and Social Inclusion
By Philip Lynch, Co-ordinator, PILCH Homeless Persons’ Legal Clinic
The SAAP ACT: Towards an Understanding of its Legal Requirements
By Emma Gollege, Co-ordinator, NSW Homeless Persons’ Legal Clinic
Left Out in the Cold
By Tess Hardy, Volunteer, PILCH Homeless Persons’ Legal Clinic
Social Security or Socia Exclusion?
By Tamara Walsh, Lecturer in Law, T.C. Beirne School of Law, University of
Queensland
Service Exclusion: Towards a Homelessness Advocacy Service
By Annie Paliwal, Co-ordinator Homelessness Advocacy Service
Aspiring to Quality
By Susan Plowright, Housing Services, Department of Human Services
New Victorian Initiatives in Dealing with Complaints
By Mark Stracey, Housing Appeals and Complaints Office, Department of Human
Services
Chapter 5:
Towards Social Inclusion
Supporting the Inclusion People Who Experience Homelessness through the State
Government’s Community Support Grants
By Jeff Rich, Manager, Community Enterprise, Department of Victorian Communities
The Rise and Rise of Social Enterprise
By Jeff Rich, Manager, Community Enterprise, Department of Victorian Communities
Elements of a Social Inclusion Response to Homelessness
By Monsignor David Cappo, Chair, SA Social Inclusion Board
Conclusion
No Easy Answers but some hope in Victoria
By Dr Helen Szoke, Chief Conciliator/Chief Executive Officer, Equal Opportunity
Commission of Victoria
The March People Not Markets - Social Justice Advocacy and The Market Edition of
Parity
Contents
Editorial: Getting the Message Out
SAAP: It’s Time for Financial Transparency
Introduction: Social Justice Advocacy and the Market
By Julie Smith, Chairperson Financial and Consumer Rights Council
The Political and Social Policy Context for the Bracks Government
By Associate Professor Linda Hancock, Deakin University and President VCOSS Board
Market Segmentation and Economic Discrimination: Why Markets Deliver Unequal
Outcomes
By Andrea Sharam, Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology
The Market Fails Residents Living in Pension-Level Supported Residential Services
(SRSS)
By Candy Maughan and Linda Sparrow
Banking Issues for Low Income Households
By Kathleen Hosie, Financial Counsellor, Cardinia-Casey Community Health
Community Wellbeing and The Gambling Juggernaut
(Authors name withheld)
Refugee Background Migrants and Social and Economic Exclusion
By Esther Gregory, Financial Counsellors sans frontiers: Refugee and Asylum Seekers
Working Group
“I’m down to the last two buttons”: Women Speak Out About Financial Abuse
By Karen Milgrom, Coburg-Brunswick Community Legal and Financial Counselling
Centre and Elizabeth Branigan, Council of Single Mothers and their Children
Access to Water: Fundamental Human Right?
By Anna Stewart, Deputy Director, Consumer Law Centre Victoria
The Peril of Pokies: Problem Gambling Among Older Women
By Dr Helen Kimberley, WIRE Women’s Information
The Impact of Private Sector Provision of Housing for Older People
By Jeff Fiedler, Housing for the Aged Action Group
Opinion
Advocacy, Social Justice— The Never-ending Yellow Brick Road
By Livia Carusi, Executive Officer, Financial and Consumer Rights Council
The April Stepping Out: Recreation and Homelessness Edition of Parity
Contents
Foreword
By The Hon Justin Madden MLC, Minister for Sport and Recreation
Building Community and Connectedness: The Sacred Heart Mission Sport and
Recreation Program
By Trent Masenhelder, Coordinator of the Sports and Recreation Programs, Sacred
Heart Mission
Please Open the Door
By Marilyn Hage
RecLink: A New Deal for Disadvantaged Australians
By Peter Cullen, RecLink Australia Development Manager
Creating the Conditions for Change: Recreation at Ozanam
By Ann-maree Ellis, Community Development Worker, Ozanam House, St Vincent de
Paul
Someone, Not a Nothing
By Bianca Bell, HomeGround Services
Sport on the Margins
By Peter Burke, PhD Candidate, RMIT University
Getting Over that Barrier: RecLink at Work
By Peter Cullen, RecLink Australia Development Manager
The Social Meals in Rooming Houses Program in Port Phillip: A HACC funded
Initiative
By Anne Callaghan, Program Co-ordinator Social Meals Program
SRS Residents: Going out and Enjoying Themselves!
By Anne Carnell, Occupational Therapist Southern Psychogeriatric Activity Service
Overcoming the Obstacles to Participation by Women Experiencing Homelessness
By Caroline Van Gemert
Recreation Participation Opportunities for Rooming House Residents
By Fiona Shepherdly, Port Phillip Community Group
RecLink Tasmania: The Score is on the Board
The Word on RecLink Tasmania
By Participants, Parents, Youth Workers, Volunteers and Others
A Focus on Ability
By Eddie Hadzig, Access All Abilities Coordinator, Wimmera Uniting Care
Justin Davenport
By Dean Lawson. Courtesy of the Wimmera Mail Times
Roomers Magazine Outreach Project
By Marie Hapke, Participation and Inclusion Policy Officer City of Port Phillip
Recreation and Strengthening Communities
By George Hatvani, HomeGround Services
The Commonwealth Games and Homelessness
By Sue Hogan, Partnership and Links Coordinator at Urban Seed
Going Off the Deep End: “Strengthening Our Community”
By Cathy Horsley, SPARC Coordinator, Northern and Eastern Metropolitan Regions
Re-creation: Refreshment of Strength
By Janet Bromley, Personal Support Program, Reach Out Southern Mental Health
The Salvation Army Community Aged Care Program Recreation Project
By Bernice Mathers, the Salvation Army, Recreation Project Worker
Making the Space: The Macaulay Program’s Women’s Group
Opening the Door, Recreation: The South Australian Perspective
By David Militz, RecLink South Australia
A New Day
By Andy Asser, Project Manager, RecLink SA
Street Socceroos
By Pat Kinsella
Important Connections Between Practice, Planning and Policy
The World is a Stage: The Milk Crate Theatre
By Ruth Polley, Community Education Officer, Edward Eagar Lodge
The Value of Recreation
By Rachel Sussman, Coordinator, Community Connection, Mercy Arms
RecLink NSW
“What’s on Today?” The Importance of Recreation at Corpus Christi
By Shelagh Jordan RN, Corpus Christi Community
Lodging: RecLink Getting the Word Out
Connecting Communities: Fishing Participation
By Tom Forsell Project Officer Community Programs, Sport and Recreation Victoria,
Department for Victorian Communities
Networks and Individual Agency
By Clair Harris, Administrative Assistant, RecLink Australia
A Local Government Approach to Recreation and Homelessness
By Hannah Eldridge, Recreation, Planning and Development Officer, City of Yarra
Journies With The Parkies
Opinion
By Adrian Panozzo, President RecLink Australia
The May Rethinking Youth Refuges Edition of Parity
Contents
Introduction
By Michelle Marven, Council to Homeless Persons, Youth Policy Officer
Places to Go, Places to Grow: Youth Shelters in the 21st Century
By Maria Leebeek, Donna Curtis, Shelley Parkin, Michael Coffey, Narelle Clay
Crisis Accommodation and Support Mapping Project: Food for Thought?
By Allegra Walsh, Senior Project Officer, Program Development, Office of Housing
Winning Battles: (But) Losing the War
By Wendy Malaycha
Forever Young?
By Clare Nyblom, Manager Youth Services, Melbourne City Mission.
A Youth Refuge with No Workers: It works!
By Shelley Parkin, Co-ordinator Anglicare Youth Housing Programs, Anglicare NT
Ten and a Half Thousand Young People
By Vanessa Collins, Melbourne Youth Support Services
Too Young, Too Vulnerable
By Alison Ollerenshaw and Associate Professor Rosemary Green, Centre for Health
Research and Practice, University of Ballarat
The Community Pathway ‘Home’: the Lisa Lodge Experience
By Christopher Monie, Coordinator, Central Highlands Reconnect
No One Model
By Mary Riley, CoordinatorPolicy and Project Management, Hanover Southbank
Asking the Hard Questions on Homeless Young People: Project I
An interview with Deb Keys and Shelley Mallett of Project i
The Mental Health of Homeless Young People
By Rebecca Creek, Sonia Crulli and Matthew Hamilton, ORYGEN Youth Health
To Fee or Not to Fee: That is The Question
By Peter M. Dillon, Residential Youth Worker, Barwon Youth Accommodation
Service, Geelong
Accessing Opportunities
By Barry Jones, Youth Futures, Launceston, Tasmania
Opinion
Michelle Marven
Council to Homeless Persons, Youth Policy Officer
The June Caravan Parks: Watch This Space Edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial: The nexus between caravan parks and homelessness
Responding to caravan park closures in Queensland
By Natalie MacDonald, Director-General, Queensland Department of Housing
Marginal Residents of Caravan Parks
By Associate Professor Chris Chamberlain, Director of the Centre for Applied Social
Research, RMIT University.
See Change: Caravan Park living on the Mornington Peninsula
By Sabra Lazarus, Project Officer — Caravan Park Project, Mornington Peninsula
Shire
The Downside of Sea Change
By Vivienne Wynter, Freelance Journalist
I Heard a Rumour...
By Peter Mott, Onsite Project Worker
Screened Out: Housing Exclusion in Gippsland.
By Wendy Gilbert, Gippsland Housing and Support Services Network
Homelessness and Caravan Parks: Action is Long Overdue
By David Wright-Howie, Council to Homeless Persons
It Beats Living in a Tent: A Survey of Residents in Eight Lower Hunter Caravan Parks
By Graeme Stuart, the Caravan Project, Family Action Centre, University of
Newcastle
Let’s Find Another Place: The Experiences of Homeless Families Using Caravan Parks
as Crisis Housing
By Jacqui Hunt and Jane Wegener, HomeGround Services
I Can’t Believe it’s a Caravan!
By Chris Gibbings, Metropolitan Resource Officer Caravan Parks, Brisbane City
Council
Microcosms, Managers and Permanent Residence in Caravan Parks
By Janice Newton, Behavioural and Social Sciences and Humanities, University of
Ballarat
Not Happy Campers: Living in Caravan Parks under the Residential Tenancies Act
1997
By Rebecca Harrison, Research and Policy Worker, Tenants Union of Victoria
Beyond the Boom Gate: Supporting Park Residents
By Dee Brooks, Kerry Hernandez and Graeme Stuart, the Caravan Project, Family
Action Centre, University of Newcastle
When is a Manufactured Home Not a Manufactured Home?
By Rebecca Peters and Penny Carr, Tenants’ Union of Queensland
“I Love My House! It has Two Wheels and a Door!”
By Marie Stuart and Kate Ellis, Save the Children Queensland
Protecting Caravan Park Residents in Western Australia
By Patrick Walker, Consumer Protection Commissioner, WA Department of
Consumer and Employment Protection
Paradise Lost: Residential Parks in NSW
By Di Evans, Park and Village Service of NSW
Opinion: Caravanserai
Peter Mott, Onsite Project Worker
Contents
Editorial: The nexus between caravan parks and homelessness
Responding to caravan park closures in Queensland
By Natalie MacDonald, Director-General, Queensland Department of Housing
Marginal Residents of Caravan Parks
By Associate Professor Chris Chamberlain, Director of the Centre for Applied Social
Research, RMIT University.
See Change: Caravan Park living on the Mornington Peninsula
By Sabra Lazarus, Project Officer — Caravan Park Project, Mornington Peninsula
Shire
The Downside of Sea Change
By Vivienne Wynter, Freelance Journalist
I Heard a Rumour...
By Peter Mott, Onsite Project Worker
Screened Out: Housing Exclusion in Gippsland.
By Wendy Gilbert, Gippsland Housing and Support Services Network
Homelessness and Caravan Parks: Action is Long Overdue
By David Wright-Howie, Council to Homeless Persons
It Beats Living in a Tent: A Survey of Residents in Eight Lower Hunter Caravan Parks
By Graeme Stuart, the Caravan Project, Family Action Centre, University of
Newcastle
Let’s Find Another Place: The Experiences of Homeless Families Using Caravan Parks
as Crisis Housing
By Jacqui Hunt and Jane Wegener, HomeGround Services
I Can’t Believe it’s a Caravan!
By Chris Gibbings, Metropolitan Resource Officer Caravan Parks, Brisbane City
Council
Microcosms, Managers and Permanent Residence in Caravan Parks
By Janice Newton, Behavioural and Social Sciences and Humanities, University of
Ballarat
Not Happy Campers: Living in Caravan Parks under the Residential Tenancies Act
1997
Beyond the Boom Gate: Supporting Park Residents
By Dee Brooks, Kerry Hernandez and Graeme Stuart, the Caravan Project, Family
Action Centre, University of Newcastle
When is a Manufactured Home Not a Manufactured Home?
By Rebecca Peters and Penny Carr, Tenants’ Union of Queensland
“I Love My House! It has Two Wheels and a Door!”
By Marie Stuart and Kate Ellis, Save the Children Queensland
Protecting Caravan Park Residents in Western Australia
By Patrick Walker, Consumer Protection Commissioner, WA Department of
Consumer and Employment Protection
Paradise Lost: Residential Parks in NSW
By Di Evans, Park and Village Service of NSW
Opinion: Caravanserai
Peter Mott, Onsite Project Worker
July Rural and Regional Youth Homelessness Edition of Parity
Contents
Dealing with Youth Homelessness Beyond the Capitals
By Andrew Beer, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management,
Flinders University and Director, Southern Research Centre, AHURI
Developing Service Responses to Youth Homelessness (Bendigo)
By John Bonnice, Senior Manager, Children, Youth and Family Services, St Luke’s,
Bendigo
Homelessness
By Belle Smith
Youth Homelessness in South-Eastern South Australia: a Case Study of Mount
Gambier
By Dr Paul Delfabbro, Department of Psychology, University of Adelaide
Young and Homeless in Rural South Australia
By Jane Farrin, University of South Australia
Increasing Accommodation Options
By De Gilby, Team Leader, Homeless Support and Community Housing, Office of
Housing, DHS Loddon Mallee Region and Doug Tonge, CEO, Mallee Accommodation
and Support Program
Young Homeless People in Rural Areas: Is it any Different to Being Homeless in the
City?
By Heather Holst, SAAP Network Co-ordinator, Loddon Mallee Region, Victoria
Youth Homelessness and SAAP Agencies in Regional South Australia
By Michelle de Cean, Policy Officer, Youth Affairs Council of South Australia
Rural Youth Homelessness: A Service Perspective
By Craig Mills, Coordinator, Orange and District Youth Refuge Association Inc
Finding a House and Making a Home in Regional and Rural Tasmania
By Dr Kristin Natalier, School of Sociology and Social Work, University of Tasmania
The Loddon Mallee Youth and Public Housing Research Project
By Cassy Nunan, St Luke’s Anglicare
Where You Live Does Make a Difference
By Susan Oakley, Gender Studies and Labour Studies, Adelaide University
‘You stay at their place, they stay at yours’: Mates Helping Each Other Out of
Homelessness
By Jasmin Packer, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management,
Flinders University Adelaide
Challenges of Living on the Urban Fringe: The Yarra Ranges Perspective
By Katie Pulling, Community Development Officer, Shire of Yarra Ranges Youth
Services on behalf of the Housing Young People Action Team
Identity and Youth Homelessness
By Fiona Verity, School of Social Administration and Social Work, Flinders University
Opinion
Youth Homelessness: Urban and Rural
Andrew Beer,School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management,
Flinders University
August "Persistent Homelessness" Edition of Parity
Contents
Foreword — Message from the Lord Mayor of Melbourne
Feature: Persistent Homelessness
Persistent Homelessness /Persistent Trauma
By Dr. Catherine Robinson, Social Inquiry University of Technology, Sydney
Recurring Homelessness — Breaking the Cycle with Appropriate Housing
Jenny Malone and Emma Pullen, Housing Support and Outreach Workers-WISHIN
Iterative Homelessness and SAAP
By Joan Reid, SAAP National Data Collection Agency, AIHW
Persistent Homelessness or Persistent Drug and Alcohol Problems?
By Felicity Reynolds, Manager, Homelessness Unit, City of Sydney
Pathways Out of Homelessness
By Tim Matheson, Director Social Policy Unit, Territorial Social Programme
Department, the Salvation Army
Bring Lawyers Guns And Money: Death And Housing In Northern Australia
By Chris Howse, Executive Officer, Northern Territory Aboriginal Justice Advocacy
Committee, AJAC School of Law, Charles Darwin University
The Poverty Wars: A Fight that Must be Won
By Peter Saunders, Director Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South
Wales
Persistent Homelessness and the Law
By Emily McCarron and Suzie Forell, Law and Justice Foundation of NSW
Persistence in the Face of Persistent Homelessness: Insights from Women who have
been Homeless
By Helen Owens, Project Officer, Catherine House Inc.
Breaking the Cycle at Regina Coeli
By Caroline Van Gemert, Recreation Officer, Regina Coeli Community
Prevention as the Cure?
By Lorraine Johnston, Accommodation Coordinator, Fremantle Wesley Mission
A Shelter is Not A Home ... Or is It?
By Ralph da Costa Nunez
What Factors Impact on People’s Capacity to Maintain Long-Term Tenancies? Did the
SAAP experience help them?
Opinion:
Councillor David Wilson
City of Melbourne — Chair: Community and Culture Committee
The September Dual Diagnosis and Homelessness Edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial
Nexus Wins Gold Award
The Victorian Response to Dual Diagnosis
By Michael Cole, Nexus Dual Diagnosis Service
Engaging the Dually Diagnosed Homeless Client
By Claudina Garcia, Psychologist, Dual Diagnosis Homeless Clinician, DASWestSUMITT
Balancing Act: Treating Young People With a ‘Dual Diagnosis’
By Tim Martyn, Policy and Research Officer, Jesuit Social Services
Bridging the Gap: Enhancing Co-morbidity Services for Young People
By Nich Rogers, Youth Substance Abuse Service (YSAS)
Dual Diagnosis and Homelessness: A Matter of Human Rights
By Kate van Dooren, Policy Officer, Youth Coalition of the ACT
Managing Mental Health and Substance Use: The Dual Diagnosis Project
By Brendan Pawsey, Managing Mental Health and Substance Use Project
Coordinator, Collaborative Therapy Unit, Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria
Speed Hidden by Weed: Cannabis and Amphetamine Use in Dual Diagnosis
By Michael Cole and Kathleen Ryan, Nexus Dual Diagnosis Service
Dual Diagnosis: Reviewing Current Research
By Fiona McDermott, Senior Lecturer, School of Social Work, University of
Melbourne
Pilot Project: A Collaboration between Northern NEXUS and YSAS
By Chris Hynan, Nexus — Dual Diagnosis Advisory Service
Older Adults with a Dual Diagnosis
By Kathleen Ryan, Northern NEXUS Dual Diagnosis Service
South Sydney Dual Diagnosis Project
By Julie Anne Geddes and Jane Barton, South Sydney Youth Service, Dual Diagnosis
Team
Opinion — A Human Services System for Human Beings
Julie Edwards,CEO, Jesuit Social Services
Contents
Editorial
Nexus Wins Gold Award
The Victorian Response to Dual Diagnosis
By Michael Cole, Nexus Dual Diagnosis Service
Engaging the Dually Diagnosed Homeless Client
By Claudina Garcia, Psychologist, Dual Diagnosis Homeless Clinician, DASWestSUMITT
Balancing Act: Treating Young People With a ‘Dual Diagnosis’
By Tim Martyn, Policy and Research Officer, Jesuit Social Services
Bridging the Gap: Enhancing Co-morbidity Services for Young People
By Nich Rogers, Youth Substance Abuse Service (YSAS)
Dual Diagnosis and Homelessness: A Matter of Human Rights
By Kate van Dooren, Policy Officer, Youth Coalition of the ACT
Managing Mental Health and Substance Use: The Dual Diagnosis Project
By Brendan Pawsey, Managing Mental Health and Substance Use Project
Coordinator, Collaborative Therapy Unit, Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria
Speed Hidden by Weed: Cannabis and Amphetamine Use in Dual Diagnosis
By Michael Cole and Kathleen Ryan, Nexus Dual Diagnosis Service
Dual Diagnosis: Reviewing Current Research
By Fiona McDermott, Senior Lecturer, School of Social Work, University of
Melbourne
Pilot Project: A Collaboration between Northern NEXUS and YSAS
By Chris Hynan, Nexus — Dual Diagnosis Advisory Service
Older Adults with a Dual Diagnosis
By Kathleen Ryan, Northern NEXUS Dual Diagnosis Service
South Sydney Dual Diagnosis Project
By Julie Anne Geddes and Jane Barton, South Sydney Youth Service, Dual Diagnosis
Team
Opinion — A Human Services System for Human Beings
Julie Edwards,CEO, Jesuit Social Services
The October The Art(s) of Homelessness Edition of Parity
Contents
Foreword: Councillor David Wilson,
City of Melbourne
Chair: Community and Cultural Committee
Feature: The Art(s) of Homelessness
Visionary Images
By Maria Filippow, Artistic Director, Visionary Images Inc
Self, the Environment and Others
By Heather Fry, MA Art Therapy, Dip.Vis.Art, Dip Ed.
Kaleidoscopic Arts Events in Sydney
By Ruth Polley
Public Art Public Housing Website Launched
By Judy Spokes, Director, Cultural Development Network
Creative Expression as a Tool for Change
By Jane Gillings and Michael Hanlon, Creative Youth Initiatives
Mapping the City
By Jeff Stewart, Artful Dodgers Studio, Gateway
Street Survivor: Can You Survive on the Streets?
By Kirsty Baird
The Sydney Street Choir: Doing It for a Song
By Peter Lehrner
Creating a Different Language: Art Therapy with Homeless Youth
By Claire Haslope
The Impact of Paint Therapy on People who are Homeless
By Jasmine Siggs, Co-ordinator, Ozcare HACC Outreach Project, Toowoomba
Hannick House
By Cheryl Pratt, Support Worker
Access to Arts is Thriving in City of Port Phillip
By Cathy Horsley, Acting Access Arts Development Officer, City of Port Phillip
Why Creative Arts with Children?
By Kathy Prior, Coordinator, Resilient Kids, the Eastern Children’s Resource Program
Roomers Goes to the Theatre: La Mama Theatre Explorations Season 2005
By Sarah L’Estrange, Roomers Magazine
Community Cultural Development within the Homeless Service System
By Lisa Sammut, Manager, Ozanam House Supported Crisis Accommodation Service,
St Vincent de Paul Community Services
Arts of Homelessness
By Winsome Willow and Monique Cameron, Inanna Inc
Opinion —
Jane Crawley
Team Leader, Cultural Development, City of Melbourne
November Looking for Answers Homelessness and SAAP Research Edition of Parity
Content
Introduction
Reflections on SAAP Research
By Luyen Nguyen and David Ramsay, Housing Support Branch, Department of Family
and Community Services*
Chapter 1 • Homelessness and SAAP Research, An Overview
Research and the National Homelessness Strategy
By Ellen Wood, Section Manager, Homelessness Policy and Assistance, Housing
Support Branch, Department of Family and Community Services
How Research has Informed Responses to Homelessness in Western Australia
By Helen Miskell, Acting Manager Special Projects, W. A. State Homelessness
Strategy
The Contribution of Consultants to Policy and Program Development
Unsettling the Taken for Granted in Homelessness Research
By Robyn Martin, Department of Social Work and Social Policy, Curtin University
Research into Practice
By Hellene Gronda, Research Co-ordinator, HomeGround Services
The Role of Consultants in Homelessness Research
By Ruth Gordon, Resolve Community Consulting
Homelessness and Research: Improving Accessibility and Coordination to Develop
New Policy Directions
By David Wright-Howie, Council to Homeless Persons Policy Officer
Translating Research into Homelessness Policy and Practice: One Perspective from
the United States
By Dennis P. Culhane*, University of Pennsylvania
Chapter 2 • Policy and Policy Development
National Evaluation of the Supported Accommodation and Assistance Program
(SAAP IV)
By Tim Wyatt, Erebus Consulting
Developing Economic Analysis for the Homelessness Sector
By Scott Ewing, Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology
“No Money, No Nothin”: Vulnerable and Breached
By Chris Talbot and Lorraine Kerr
The Review of Information Management Planning During SAAP IV
By Penny Ryan, RPR Consulting
International Approaches to Homelessness
By John Minnery and Emma Greenhalgh, AHURI Queensland Research Centre
Chapter 3 • Developing Better Programs and Services, and Improving Practice
Mentoring in SAAP
By Melissa Porteus and Susanne Koepke, Joondalup Youth Support Services (JYSS)
“Dad, where are we going to live now?”
By Morag McArthur, Joanna Zubrzycki, Anthony Rochester and Lorraine Thomson
Dilemmas in Working with Women with Complex Needs
By Professor Lesley Cooper, School of Social Administration and Social Work, Faculty
of Social Sciences, Flinders University
‘Getting Back On My Feet’: Describing, Defining and Promoting Self-Reliance in SAAP
By Nola Kunnen and Robyn Martin, AHURI Western Australia Research Centre, Curtin
University of Technology, Perth, Department of Social Work and Social Policy
Chapter 4 • Achieving Better Housing Outcomes
Public Tenancy: A Sustainable Housing Outcome for Victorian Homeless Service
Clients?
By Eve Kelly, Hanover Welfare Services
Sustaining Housing after Homelessness
By Liz Mackdacy and Dr Chris Lennings, LennMac Consulting Pty Ltd
“What factors impact on people’s capacity to maintain long-term tenancies? Did the
SAAP experience help them?”
By Ian Gough, Merri Outreach Support Services
Looking for Crisis Housing Options in Outer Metropolitan Melbourne: An Alternative
to Caravan Parks?
By Alan Wood, HomeGround Services
Conditional Release: Examining the Accommodation Needs and Experiences of Ex
Prisoners
By Matthew Willis, Australian Institute of Criminology
The Role of SAAP in Meeting the Housing and Support Needs of Ex-prisoners
By Teresa Hinton, Research Consultant
Homelessness and Residential Tenancy Databases: Is There a Link?
By Jo Hamilton, Hunter Homelessness Project Officer, Mission Australia
Chapter 5 • Clients and Achieving Better Outcomes for Clients
Measuring Client Satisfaction: The National Project to Design and Trial Client
Satisfaction Measures for use in the Supported Accommodation Assistance Program
(SAAP)
By Leanne Craze, Craze Lateral Solutions
Children in the Supported Accommodation Assistance Program (SAAP)
By Tony Eardley Senior Research Fellow, Social Policy Research Centre, University of
New South Wales
Accountability and Practice: The Measurement of Client Outcomes in SAAP
By Chris Talbot and Jo Baulderstone
Meeting the Requirements of People with High and Complex Needs
Women Experiencing Homelessness: A Gender Analysis of the Victorian SAAP Client
Collection
By Hanover Welfare Services
Like A Mouse in a Wheel
By Helen Owens, Project Officer, Catherine House
An Investigation into the Effect of Generalist Transitional (Medium-Term) Housing
and Support on Primary School-Aged Children, Children in Transition Project
Service Access and Pathways of Accompanied Children at Dawn House Women’s
Shelter
By Sue Brownlee, Coordinator, Dawn House
Using Research to Obtain Client Satisfaction Information
By Barbara Beatty, Australian Government Department of Family and Community
Services
Youth Consumer Participation in SAAP Services at Brophy Family and Youth Services
By Dr Anna Macgarvey, Deakin University
Opinion
The Contribution of Research to the SAAP Program
By Doug Limbrick, Director Performance, Reporting and Data, Department of Family
and Community Services
2006
February 2006 "Out in the Open: Public Space" Edition of Parity
CONTENTS
FOREWORD Rob Hulls, Victorian Attorney General
EDITORIAL Deb Tsorbaris CEO CHP
INTRODUCTION: Public Space and Homelessness
Homelessness and Public Space: Responding in a Human Rights Framework
By Philip Lynch, Director and Principal Solicitor, Human Rights Law Resource Centre
and Kristen Hilton, Coordinator, PILCH Homeless Persons’ Legal Clinic
Inclusive Spaces and Places…the Community Justice response to Homelessness
By Louise Glanville, Director of the Neighbourhood Justice Centre Project,
Department of Justice
Neo-Liberal Ideology and ‘The ‘Problem’ of Anti-Social Behaviour
By Keith Jacobs, University of Tasmania
“I Thought it was Public Space”: The Impact of Privatisation of Public Space
By Stuart Boyd
Hot Property: Public Space for Fun and Profit
By Chris Middendorp
Nowhere to Go: Excluded From Private and Public Spaces
By Michael Sheehan
Who Controls the Public Space? The Print Media, Homelessness and Social Work in
Australian Cities
By Carole Zufferey, PhD Candidate, University of South Australia
Chapter 1: Public Events and Public Space: A Commonwealth Games?
Preparing for the Commonwealth Games
By Candy Broad MLC, Minister for Housing
The Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games
By Justin Madden MLC, Minister for Commonwealth Games
Public Space, Homelessness and the Commonwealth Games: Developing Reference
Points
Interview: Councillor David Wilson, Chair Community and Culture Committee, City of
Melbourne
One City, Many Publics
By Sue Hogan, Urban Seed
In the Shadow of International Events: Homelessness and the Sydney Olympics
By Emma Golledge Co-ordinator Homeless Persons’ Legal Service PIAC
Chapter 2: You’d Better Move On: Public Space and The Law
We Want Change: Understanding and Responding to Begging in Melbourne
By Philip Lynch, Director and Principal Solicitor, Human Rights Law Resource Centre
and Kristen Hilton, Coordinator, PILCH Homeless Persons’ Legal Clinic
Criminalising People in Public Space in Australia and Canada
By Cassandra Goldie, Director, Homelessness Legal Rights Project, Gilbert and Tobin
Centre of Public Law, University of New South Wales
Homelessness, Public Space and the Law in Queensland
By Dr Tamara Walsh, T.C. Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland
Living in the Public Eye: Homelessness and Fines (1)
By Emily McCarron and Sophie Clarke
Law and Justice Foundation of New South Wales
Responding to Street Homelessness and Associated Anti-Social Behaviours in Britain:
Towards More Coercion?
By Maureen Crane and Tony Warnes, Sheffield Institute for Studies on Ageing,
University of Sheffield, England
A New (Legal) Threat to Public Space: The Rise and Rise of the ASBO
By Stan Winford, Lawyer/Policy and Project Officer, Fitzroy Legal Service
Not such a Fine Thing ! The Impact of Fines and the Regulation of Public Space
By Emma Golledge, Co-ordinator Homeless Persons’ Legal Service, Public Interest
Advocacy Centre
Moving-On Homelessness: The Impact Of Police Move-On Powers in Public Space
By Monica Taylor, Coordinator Queensland Homeless Persons’ Legal Clinic
The Homelessness and Street Offences Project
By Karen McLeod, Legal Practice Coordinator Legal Aid Queensland
Darkness at the Break of Noon: The Fall and Fall of the Public Domain
By Jane Sanders, Principal Solicitor of the Shopfront Youth Legal Centre
Chapter 3: Space, Place and Community: Public Space and Indigenous Issues
Out and About in Kurilpa: The Right to Public Space
By Rose Best, Project Worker for the Brisbane Homelessness Taskforce
Public Place Dwelling Indigenous People: Alternative Strategies to the Law and Order
Approach
By Assoc Prof Paul Memmott, Aboriginal Environments Research Centre, School of
Geography Planning and Architecture, University of Queensland
Racism, Vagrancy and New Laws in the Northern Territory
By Chris Howse, Executive Officer, Aboriginal Justice Advocacy Committee, NT
“Why don’t they buy their own houses?”
By John Tomlinson, Queensland University of Technology
Chapter 4: “Wild in the Streets: Young People and Public Space
Shelter From the Storm?
By Anna Forsyth, Youth Policy Officer, Council to Homeless Persons and Jen Rose,
Policy Officer, YACVic
Out of Order? The Increasing Regulation of Young People in Public Space
By Paula Grogan, Director, Youthlaw
Cleaning Up the Streets: Cultural Resistance, Coercive Force and Social Inequality
By Rob White, School of Sociology and Social Work, University of Tasmania
Public Space and Violence in Young People Experiencing Homelessness
By Tim Bryar, Health Promotion Coordinator, Young People's Health Service
Chapter 5: Local Government and Public Space
Local Government Responses to Homelessness in Public Space: An Overview
Emma Greenhalgh
A Balancing Act: Managing Public Space and Assisting People Who are Homeless in
the City of Sydney
By Felicity Reynolds, Manager, Homelessness Unit, City of Sydney
The City of Port Phillip’s Homelessness Protocol: Engagement First - Enforcement
Last
By Kate Incerti, Housing Information and Support Worker, City of Port Phillip
How White are our Pickets?
By Carmel Boyce, Social Planner, City of Greater Geelong
Conclusion
Taking Back the Commons
By Jenny Macaffer, Coordinator, Social Planning and Community Development,
Mornington Peninsula Shire
The March Waking Up to Homelessness: National Conference Edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial
By Jack Quinane, Executive Officer, Australian Federation of Homelessness
Organisations
Editorial: Ten Years After
By Deb Tsorbaris, CEO, Council to Homeless Persons
The Legal Needs of Homeless People in Queensland
By Tamara Walsh, TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland
A Brave New Policy Environment: Preventing or Entrenching Homelessness?
By Emma Golledge,Co-ordinator, NSW Homeless Persons’ Legal Service, Public
Interest Advocacy Centre
“A Home Until Stumps”: How have Policy Changes over the Past 20 years Affected
the Elderly Homeless?
By Bryan Lipmann AM, CEO Wintringham
Learning from the Inside Out: Experiences in Evaluating Homelessness Services
By Sharon Bicknell, Service Development Coordinator and Anne Chamberlain, Service
Development Manager, Mission Australia Community Services NSW/ACT
Joining Up The Silos
By Helen Miskell, A/Manager Special Projects, State Homelessness
StrategyDepartment for Community Development
YP4 – A Model of Joined Up Practice for Young Homeless Jobseekers
By Louise Coventry, YP4 Manager
The Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Homelessness Prevention and Assistance
Programs
By Paul Flatau, Leslie Cooper, Yvonne Haigh, Robyn Martin, Michelle Brady, Kaylene
Zaretzky and Donna Edwards (AHURI and Murdoch, Curtin and Flinders Universities)
and members of the Project Advisory Group
No Home, No Justice? Meeting the Legal Needs of Homeless People
By Emily McCarron, Researcher and Suzie Forell, Senior Researcher, Law and Justice
Foundation of NSW
Together for Hope
By Emilija Todorova, Business Manager, Service Delivery Improvement, Service
Delivery Coordination Branch, Centrelink
Does Multidisciplinary Case Management Affect Outcomes for Frequent Attenders at
an Inner Urban Emergency Department?
By Dr Georgina Phillips, Staff Specialist, Emergency Department, St. Vincent’s Health
Housing and Support for Older Homeless People: Is There A Difference?
By Kay Kavanagh, Director of Services, Mercy Arms Community Care
“No Home No Kids”: The Vicious Cycle of Homelessness and Out-of-Home Care
Placement for Families in Central Victoria.
By Dr Jan Browne, Social Research Unit Manager, St Luke’s Anglicare
Rethinking Models of Service Delivery for Young People
By Nada Vindis, Manager, Youth Accommodation and Support Services, Melbourne
Citymission
Hanover’s Longitudinal Studies
By Violet Kolar, Senior Research Officer and Eve Kelly, Research Officer, Hanover
Welfare Services
Evaluating Outcomes: Client Audit and Outcomes Measurement
By Maggie Pressnell,Service Development Project Officer NSW,Mission Australia
Domestic and Family Violence: It’s not all Black and White
By Shirley Slann, North Queensland Domestic Violence Resource Service
Hearing From Young Homeless Australians
By Denise Chadwick and Anne Hampshire, Research and Social Policy Unit, Mission
Australia
Youth SAAP Integration: Making the Client the Focus
By Donna Curtis, Executive Officer,Shire Wide Youth Services Inc
Ill-Health and Homelessness: How They Make Each Other Worse and What Can be
Done About It
By Gaye Mitchell, Research Consultant and Leigh Woolcock, Program Manager from
SHIFT
Amalgamation and Strengthening Mission
By Carol Vale, Angela Reed and Cheryl Sullivan, Shekinah Homeless Women’s
Services
Homelessness — It’s Enough to Make You Sick! Keeping Health on the Homelessness
Agenda
By Dorothy Campbell, Western Team Coordinator, RDNS Homeless Persons Program
The Costs and Pathways of Homelessness
By Scott Ewing, Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology
A Dynamic Data Collection Almost Ten Years On
By Justin Griffin, Manager, SAAP Nation Data Collection Agency
How Can Service Providers Assess and Measure Complexity of Need and Case
Management Outcomes in their Clients?
By Doug Limbrick, Director Performance, Reporting and Data, Department of Family
Shredded: A Film About Domestic Violence
From Annie North Inc. Women’s Refuge and Domestic Violence Service
Overcoming Barriers to Providing Domestic Violence Services for Women from
Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds
By Angela Nesci, Non-English Speaking Background Board Member for AFHO
Urgent and Critical: Women and Children in Australia Experiencing Domestic
Violence – National Research Findings
By Julie Oberin, Annie North Inc. Women’s Refuge and Domestic Violence Service
and WESNET
Pallert Tooree Larr: Strong Black Women’s Camp or Home
By Julie Oberin, Lyn Charles and Katie Christensen, Annie North Inc. Women’s Refuge
and Domestic Violence Service.
Opinion
Annabel Senior, AFHO Chairperson
So much more could be done
The April Protecting Rights: Guardianship and Administration, Disability and
Contents
It’s Hard but Not Impossible
By Rosanna Wong, Senior Disability Advisor for the Office of the Protective
Commissioner
Guardianship and Advocacy: Helping People Achieve Independence and Autonomy
By Megan Archer, Patrick McGee, Matthew Rasmussen, Advocate/Guardian, Office
of the Public Advocate, Victoria
Bridges out of a Chaotic World: The Role of Guardianship and Administration
Tribunals in Helping Homeless Persons with a Disability
By John Billings, Deputy President, VCAT (Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal)
Administration, Helping Keep Finances in Order: A Road to Independence
By Bridget Grant, Client Relations Consultant, State Trustees Limited, Victoria
Safeguarding Rights: Communication the Key
By Beppie Hedditch, Consultancy Team, arbias Limited
Engaging Homelessness, Guardianship, Administration and Disability in a Human
Rights Framework
By Philip Lynch, Director, Human Rights Law Resource Centre, and Kristen Hilton,
Coordinator, PILCH Homeless Persons’ Legal Clinic
Guardianship and Administration Services: The view from an aged care homeless
service provider — Wintringham
By Alice Rota-Bartelink
Housing: The Bedrock of Community Inclusion for People with Disabilities.Do
Administrators and Guardians Help?
By Chris Glennen and Dave Macrae, Supported Housing Ltd
“Getting Things Done”
By Ann Lyons, President, Queensland Guardianship and Administration Tribunal
Disability NEWS
Evaluating Financial Competence
By Mavis M. Kershaw, School of Psychology, Deakin University, and Lynne S. Webber,
School of Health & Social Development, Deakin University
National Contacts and Resources
Opinion —
Julian Gardner, Victorian Public Advocate
The May "Working it Out: Employment/Unemployment and Homelessness Edition
of Parity
Contents
Editorial
Introduction
Working Assumptions
By Mark Furlong, Lecturer in Social Work, La Trobe University
Chapter 1: In Context, Unemployment, Homelessness and Doing it Hard
Employment, Joblessness and Poverty
Peter Saunders, Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales
More Than a Bed: Employment, Income and Study Patterns of SAAP Clients 2004–05
By Frieda Rowland and Andrew Powierski
Building a Strong Voice for Low-Paid Workers
By Jess Walsh, Assistant Secretary, Liquor Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union
Education, Homelessness and Employment
Tony Keenan, CEO, Hanover Welfare Services
Low Pay and Housing Stress: New Evidence from Childcare Workers
By Dr Helen Masterman-Smith, Research Fellow, Centre for Work and Life, University
of South Australia
Chapter 2: Policy Settings
Helping People Move from Welfare to Work
By Hon Joe Hockey MP, Commonwealth Minister for Human Services
The Role of SAAP and Employment: Access for People who are Homeless
By Keith Waters, Mohow
Homelessness and Unemployment: A Comprehensive Policy Framework is Required
Welfare to Work: Experiences and Aspirations of Disadvantaged Jobseekers
By Michael Horn and Lucinda JordanResearch and Social Policy Unit, Melbourne
Citymission
From Working Nation to Work Choices
By John Quiggin, Federation Fellow in Economics and Political Science, University of
Queensland
Accommodating Employment: A Job Guarantee
By Professor Bill Mitchell, Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre of Full
Employment and Equity (CofFEE), University of Newcastle
“WorkChoices” and Homeless People
By Patricia HewitsonCatholic Social Services Australia
From Social Security to Social Insecurity — Welfare to Work and Homelessness
By Gavin Dufty, Research and Policy Officer, St Vincent de Paul Society Victoria and
Netty Horton, General Manager, Community Services, St Vincent De Paul Aged Care
Chapter 3: Employment Assistance Theory and Practice
Australian Government Support for Homeless People
By the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations
Pathways to Participation
By Keith Waters, Mohow
Employment and Community Connectedness: A Homelessness Stream’s Response
By Glenn James, Adult Services Group Manager and Darren Schwartz, Manager
Flagstaff Crisis Services
Assisting People Facing Homelessness in the Personal Support Program
By Daniel Perkins, Research and Policy Project Manager, Social Action and Research
Unit, Brotherhood of St Laurence
Joining the Dots: The Relationship between Employment, Education and Training and
the Homelessness Service System
By Sally James and Claire Nyblom, Melbourne Citymission
YP4: Stories of Place, Purpose and Personal Support
By Louise Coventry, YP4 Manager
Counting Shadows: Preparing A Socio-Demographic Profile of Young Homeless
Jobseekers
By Marty Grace and Nicole Wilson, Victoria University
JPET: A Holistic Approach to Assisting Youth Facing Social Exclusion
By Dr Martina Boese, Research and Policy Project Manager, Social Action and
Research Unit and Lee-Ann Boyle JPET Manager, Brotherhood of St Laurence
Homelessness, Employment Assistance and the Welfare to Work Package
By Simon Smith, Catholic Social Services Australia
Chapter 4: Centrelink, Homelessness and Pathways to Independence
Centrelink’s Commitment to People who are Homeless
By Heather Malerbi, National Project Officer, Centrelink Response to
Homelessness/HOME Advice Program
“1 + 1 = 3: Successfully Working Together to Prevent Family Homelessness”
By Zofia Cloc, Family Focus Team Leader Dandenong, Mandy Lake, Family Focus
Social Worker Dandenong, Centrelink and Nicole Taig, Family Focus Family Support
Worker, Hanover Dandenong
The ReLink* Project — A Partnership in Action
By Catherine Cowan, Senior Social Worker, Centrelink, Charlestown Customer
Service Centre
Beyond The Link: Supporting Homeless Men along the Participation Pathway
By David Scudds, Centrelink Community Officer, Centrelink Parramatta Customer
Service Centre
Amber’s Experience
By Freda Banks, Social Worker, Centrelink Social Worker with the HOME Advice
Program
Stability Achieved: A Successful Approach to Early Intervention in the HOME Advice
Program
By Heather Malerbi, National Project Officer, Centrelink Response to Homelessness
Better Budgeting for Centrelink Customers
Conclusion
Employment and Homelessness: Is it Code for the Labour and Housing Markets?
By Dr Rodney Fopp, University of South Australia
Opinion
Tony Nicholson
CEO, Brotherhood of St Laurence
The June: On the Outer, Homelessness in Outer Metropolitan Centres Edition
Contents
Editorial
Lack of Housing Exit Points from Crisis and Transitional Housing Accommodation in
the EMR*: What Can be Done?
By Mark Dixon, Regional Manager of Housing and Crisis Accommodation Services,
Salvation Army Eastcare, and Karina Hogan, Manager of Salvation Army Eastcare
Gateways Program
Single Homeless Women in Western Sydney: A Double Invisibility
By Catherine Robinson and Rose Searby, Social Inquiry, Faculty of Humanities and
Social Sciences, UTS
Living on the Outer: A Snapshot of Homelessness and Housing in Melton
By Liz Wallace and Joanne Hjorth, Housing Support Workers, Shire of Melton
Out in the Cold: The Private Rental Squeeze at Work
By Ammie McAuliffe, Family Crisis Accommodation Service, Melbourne Citymission
(Western)
Responding to Homelessness in the Outer Northern Suburbs
By Katrina McAuley, Merri Outreach Support Service
Finding Solutions to Singles Homelessness
By Chris Chaplin, Tenancy Services, North East Housing Service Ltd
Housing No Barrier to Creativity
By Trish Ferrara, Tenancy Worker, North East Housing Service
But How Will I Get Home?
By Narelle Everard and Tony Setter, Royal District Nursing Service Homeless Persons
Program
The Northern Sector Response to Youth Homelessness
By Donna Bennett, Service Manager, Hope St Youth and Family Services Inc
Responding to Homelessness in Outer Southern Metropolitan Growth Corridors of
Melbourne
By Janice Peterson, General Manager Support Services, WAYSS Ltd
Different Services that Make a Difference
By Amanda Graham, Area Manager, WAYSS Transitional Support Services, Frankston
Working at the Interface
By Kerry Fleming, Area Manager, Transitional Support Services, Casey/Cardinia
Responding to Domestic and Family Violence on the Outer
By Cora Cambell, Manager, WAYSS Family Violence Crisis Service and Saruon Khuon,
Area Manager, WAYSS Transitional Support Services Dandenong
Opinion
Kim Stowe, CEO WAYSS
The July “Vulnerable, At Risk, In Danger: Supporting People With Complex Needs”
Edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial
Pathways In and Out of Homelessness
By Jacqui Theobald and Guy Johnson, Centre for Applied Social Research, RMIT
University
Supporting People with Complex Needs
By Julia Canty-Waldron and Katy Hill, HomeGround Services
A Proven Strategy for Ending Homelessness
By Rosanne Haggerty
Making the Links Between Homelessness and Mental Health Service Systems
By Katy Hill and Stephen Nash, Homeground Services
Tackling Complexity: The Triumphs and Challenges of Working from a Social Inclusion
Perspective
By Jill Whitehorn, Senior Advisor on Human Services, Social Inclusion Unit,
Department of the Premier and Cabinet, South Australia
The Inner South Rooming House Project
Coordinating Crisis Responses for People with Complex Needs
By Mark Planigale, Project Worker, HomeGround Services/Flagstaff Crisis
Accommodation
Homelessness Services and People Who are Complex: Turning Talk into Action
Felicity Reynolds, Manager Community Support and AccessCity of Sydney
Housing People with Complex Needs: Managing Transitional Housing Tenancies
By Heather Wearne and Mark Gove, HomeGround Services
There’s Lots of Purple in There: Informing a supportive housing model for families
who have experienced and are at risk of homelessness
By Coralie Kingston, Convener, Southside Homelessness Action Network, Micah
Projects Inc, South Brisbane
Bail Programs and Housing Solutions
By Julia Canty-Waldron, HomeGround Services
The Secret Life of Us: Young Homeless Women with Complex Needs
By Marilyn Graham, Lowana House, ACT
Caring for the Carers
The “Street to Home” Service Adelaide: A Housing First Model
By Greg Calder,Manager, Street to Home, Adelaide
Engaging and Housing the Chronically Homeless
By Lorrinda Hamilton, John Hewitt and Ana Luz Juarez,HomeGround Services
Indigo Case Management Service, Multiple and Complex Needs Initiative
By Melinda Kidgell — Acting Program Manager, Indigo Case Management Service
Being Vulnerable, at Risk and Having Complex Needs — Where it is Least Expected
By Alan Wood, HomeGround Services
Street to Psych: The Other Side of “Street-to-Home”
By Norm Barber, Adelaide, South Australia
Engagement: Key to Recreation and Housing
By Julia Canty-Waldron, HomeGround Services
On The Road with HomeGround’s Koori Men’s Outreach Recreation Program
By Martin Hoare, HomeGround Outreach
Responding to the New Realities of Complexity
By Michael Perusco, CEO Sacred Heart Mission
HOW? Housing Focussed Outreach to People with Complex Needs
By Virginia Ricketts, HomeGround Services
Inner City Homelessness Outreach and Support Service
By Kerry Edgecombe, Operations Manager, Adult Accommodation
Women Housing and Complex Needs Project
By Louisa Di Censo, Project Officer, Women Housing and Complex Needs Project
The Complex Needs Team: Combining Mental Health & Substance Use Services to
Address the Complexities of Homelessness
By Brent Hayward, Registered Psychiatric Nurse, Homeless Outreach Psychiatric
Service, the Alfred Mental Health Clinician — Complex Needs Team
Opinion
Stephen Nash, CEO HomeGround Services
Housing First, Second and Third
The August “The Future of Homeless Support” Edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial
Chaos and Entropy: The ‘Western Lodge’ Model of Supported Accommodation
By Micaela Cronin, Director Youth, Homelessness and Counselling Services, Wesley
Mission Melbourne
Transitional Support and the Challenge of Complexity
By Jacqui Theobald and Guy Johnson, Centre for Applied Social Research, RMIT
University
Housing and Support: The Need to Make the Connection
By Brian Lipmann, CEO Wintringham Hostels
Homeless Assistance: Still Working on the Building
By Jane Barnes, General Manager, Salvation Army Adult Services
Case Management Continuum, Now There’s a Thought!
By Karina Hogan, Manager of Salvation Army Eastcare Gateways Program, Leanne
Henderson, Team leader of Residential and Support Services, Salvation Army
Eastcare Gateways Program
The Future of Homelessness Support Will Depend on Community Attitudes
By Netty Horton, General Manager Community Services, St Vincent de Paul Aged
Care and Community Services
Bright Futures Demonstration Project: The Future in Children’s Support
By Romny Same, Merri Outreach Support Service
Looking Back and Moving Forward: What are the Support Needs of People
Experiencing Homelessness?
By Theresa Swanborough, OAM, Manager, RDNS* Homeless Persons Program
Exploring the Needs of Homeless People: Accommodation and/or Support
By Doug Limbrick, Director Performance, Reporting and Data, Department of
Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
The Future of Homeless Advocacy: A National Approach?
By the Australian Federation of Homelessness Organisations
Opening the Door to Possibilities
By Narelle Clay, AM, CEO Southern Youth and Family Services
The Future of Youth Homelessness Support: Some Direction Home
By Anna Forsyth, Youth Policy Officer, Council to Homeless Persons
Resilient Kids
By Joanna Ash, Resilient Kids program, Wesley Mission Melbourne
Having a Say: Feedback, the Key to Quality Service Delivery
By Hellene Gronda, Research Officer, HomeGround Services
Young People at Risk and Their Transition from Child Protection to Independent
Living
By Jenny McNaughton
Opinion —
Judy Leitch, Chief Executive Officer, Wesley Mission Melbourne
The September A Forward Step: New Responses to Drugs, Alcohol and
Contents
September: A Forward Step, New Responses to Drugs, Alcohol and Homelessness
Edition
Editorial
Deb Tsorbaris, CEO Council to Homeless Persons
Introduction: How Many Roads?
Janine Bush, CEO VAADA
Chapter 1: Government
Drugs, Alcohol and Mental Illness: A Deadly Spiral
By Christopher Pyne, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Ageing
Dual Diagnosis and Homelessness: A Victorian Response
By Alysha Batty, Department of Human Services, Drugs Policy and Service Branch and
Peter Nathan, Department of Human Services, Mental Health Branch
Chapter 2: Framing Policy
Drug Policy as Social Policy: Listening To Workers Working With Drug Using Clients
By Lea Campbell, Australian Catholic University's Quality of Life and Social Justice
Flagship
Pathways to Problematic Drug Use, Homelessness and Related Problems
By Catherine Spooner, Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales
A Product Recall Notice for Project Reduction
By Stan Winford, Lawyer/Policy and Project Officer, Fitzroy Legal Service
A Structural Perspective on Illicit Drug Use
By Philip Mendes*, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Work, Monash
University
Chapter 3: Research Perspectives
Research on Homelessness and Substance Use: Where Do We Go From Here?
By Jeremy Northcote and Zaza Lyons
National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University of Technology
An Unexpected Trajectory: Young People, Homelessness and Drugs
By Deborah Keys and Shelley Mallett
Key Centre for Women’s Health in Society, University of Melbourne
Researching to Develop Workable Models
By Sonia Berton CEO, and Dr Richard Cash, Principal Researcher
arbias Ltd
Working with Homeless People who use Alcohol and other Drugs: Devising a
Resource Guide for Frontline Practitioners
By Jeremy Northcote, Zaza Lyons and Steve Allsop (National Drug Research Institute),
John Howard (Ted Noffs Foundation) and Lynne Evans (St Bartholomew’s House)
Chapter 4: Working in a Coal Mine; Perspectives on Making a Difference
Establishing Services for the Homeless Drug User: The Access Health Example
By Dr James Rowe, Research Fellow, Centre for Applied Social Research, Lecturer,
School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning RMIT
Substance Abuse Among Older Homeless People: To Break a Continuing Cycle
By Dr Alice Rota-Bartelink, Wintringham
Women, Homelessness and Addiction: Finding Workable Responses
By Janelle Cribb, Manager the Salvation Army Kardinia Women’s Services
Drugs, Homelessness and the Out of Home Care System: Being Kicked Out of Home
Again?
By Alison Mynard, DASWest, Youth Outreach Team
A Case Study on the Women’s Alcohol and Drug Service at the Royal Women’s
Hospital
By Mary Catherine Tobin, Social Worker, Women’s Alcohol and Drug Service
Royal Women's Hospital
Getting Some Perspective
By Daryl Fitzgibbon: Western Region Alcohol and Drug Centre (Supported
Accommodation Program)
The September "New Responses to Drugs, Alcohol and Homelessness" Edition of
Parity is in some respects a revisitation and reprise of many of the themes and issues
that were first raised in the September 2001 Pathways: Causes and Consequences,
Problematic Drug Use and Homelessness Edition that was sponsored by the Drug
Policy and Services Branch.
PARITY ARTICLEInnovative Ways to Provide Targeted Health Care to a Young Client
Group
By Melika Chiswell, Donna Eade, Tim Fry and Dot Henning, Young People's Health
Service, Centre For Adolescent Health, Royal Children’s Hospital
Drug Use Amongst Youth: Who is to Blame?
By Fabrizio Lo Cascio, Case Manager, Salvation Army, St Kilda Crisis Accommodation
Centre
Tent City: A Public Space ‘Hot Spot’ Response to Problematic Drug Use and
Homelessness
By Jim Decouto, Micah Projects Inc, Brisbane
Chapter 5: The Homeless and Drug Dependency Trial, Three Years of Innovation and
Service Development
(1) Homelessness, Drug Use and Mental Health: Changing the Way We Work With
Homeless Clients with Complex Needs
(2) Homeless Service Users: Barriers Faced, Levels of Access and Improving Retention
in the Drug Treatment System
(3) Building Capacity and Rebuilding Lives: Outcomes at The End of the Three Year
Homeless and Drug Dependency Trial
(4) Alcohol and Drug Supported Accommodation: An Element of the HDDT and the
Ongoing Program
(5) Mental Health, Homelessness and Problematic Drug Use: Addressing the Issue of
Poor Mental Health and Dual Diagnosis among Homeless Persons
(6) Matthew and David - Goals Achieved!: Case Studies from the Homeless and Drug
Dependency Trial
(7) Towards a Set of Principles for Working with Clients With Complex Needs: What
Has Been Learnt From Five Years Of Innovative Responses To The Homeless?
Chapter 6: Clients, Consumers and Users, Voices that Must Be Heard
Speaking for Ourselves: The National Treatment Service Users Project
By Annie Madden, Executive Officer, Australian Injecting & Illicit Drug Users League
(AIVL)
Drug and Alcohol Services: Service User Perspectives
By Glenn James and Brendan Fitzhenry and the Participants of the CRP Forum
Chapter 7: Responding to Homelessness and Dual Diagnosis: A UK Perspective
Homelessness Alongside Co-Existing Mental Health and Drug and Alcohol Problems
By Professor Richard Velleman, University of Bath, UK *
OPINION PAGE
Janine Bush, CEO VAADA
The October Men in the Middle: Homeless Men in the 21st Century Edition of
Parity
Contents
Editorial: It’s a Man’s World?
Lowering the Bar: A Study of Substandard Boarding House Conditions and
Environments
By Allan Martin and Thea Bates
Health Care Experiences of Homeless Men
By Doug Doran, BA (Soc. Sci), Grad. Dip. in Management, M.Hlth.Sc.
Single Adult Homeless Men: Need Specialist Support and Housing Too
By David Wright-Howie, Council to Homeless Persons, Policy Officer
Support to Stand Alone
By Kevin Hecker, Group Manager Adult Services, Salvation Army
“Starting from Scratch”: Working with Men Exiting Prison
By Mark Planigale, Project Worker, Flagstaff Support Services
Homeless Male 51-years from Adelaide
By John Green
Mental Health Issues and Social Housing: Increasing Understanding, Awareness and
Insight
By Rachel Louttit, Manager, Resamen Men’s Housing
Don’t Forget the Nutritional Needs of the Homeless
By the RDNS Homeless Persons Program
Case Management Practices for Homeless Men in Emergency Housing
By Peggy Jackson, Case Manager, Ozanam House, Danny Tilkeridis, Manager, Adult
Support Services and Darren Bayley, Team leader, Adult Support Services; Ozanam
Community
A Statewide Approach to Assessment and Referral in Homelessness Services
By Clodagh Walsh and Heather Holst, Office of Housing, Victorian Department of
Human Services
Working With Homeless Men: A YP4 Perspective
By Esther Unsworth, YP4 Senior Case Manager, Hanover Welfare Services
Parramatta Homelessness Coalition: Stopping the Stones Rolling
By Trish Bramble, Parramatta Mission
Some Faces You Know Puppet Show
By Jo Serafimand Louise Augustinus, Ozanam House and Ozanam Community Centre
SVDP ACCS
Opinion:
Jane Barnes, General Manager, Salvation Army Adult Services and Netty Horton,
General Manager, Community Services, St Vincent de Paul Aged Care and
Community Services
The November “Another Country: Histories of Homelessness” Edition of Parity
Contents
Another Country: Histories of Homelessness
November 2006
Some Reflections on the SAAP and Homelessness in Australia
By Doug Limbrick, Director Performance, Reporting and Data, Housing and Disability
Group, FaCSIA.
Slums and Land
By Heather Holst
All Our Days
By Tony Birch
Defining and Defying the Image of Camp Pell
By Nell Musgrove
The Origins and Development of the Australian Women’s Refuge Movement
By Suellen Murray, RMIT University
The NSW Women’s Refuge Movement
By Catherine Gander, Executive Officer NSW Women’s Refuge Resource Centre
The Freedom to Sleep: A History from the Long Grass in Darwin, Northern Territory
By Bill Day
The Bigger Picture: Australian Homelessness Legal Advocacy
By Cassandra Goldie
South Australian Housing Policy: Retrospective/Prospective
By David Kilner
From ‘Vagrant’ to ‘Nuisance’: 200 Years of Public Space Law In Queensland
By Dr Tamara Walsh, Lecturer in Law, TC Beirne School of Law, University of
Queensland.
Whatever Happened to the Revolution? … Activism and the Early Days of Youth
Refuges in NSW
By Michael Coffey, Executive Officer Youth Accommodation Association of NSW
(YAA)
Towards a History of the Response to Homelessness in Australia
By Elena Rosenman, AFHO Policy Officer
Why I Work with the Elderly Homeless
By Bryan Lipmann, AM, CEO, Wintringham
Talking like a Toora Woman: the Herstory of a Single Women’s Service
Elena Rosenman
Opinion — Heather Holst
2007
February 2007 "As Much Right: Young Homeless People and Their Future" Edition
of Parity
Contents
Editorial: As Much Right As Reason
Homelessness in Melbourne: Launch
By Julia Canty-Waldron, Acting CEO HomeGround Services
Opinion – Anne Turley
Chapter 1 – The Rights Framework
Child and Youth Homelessness: A Nation’s Shame
By The Honourable Alistair Nicholson AO RFD QC
The Victorian Charter of Human Rights: Impacts and Implications
Philip Lynch, Director, Human Rights Law Resource Centre
The Homeless Citizen and Human Rights
By Dr Andrew Hollows, Manager Research and Policy, Hanover Welfare Services
Chapter 2 – The Policy Framework
A Code of Ethical Practice for the Youth Sector: It’s Time.
Interview with Bernie Geary, Child Safety Commissioner
Evaluating the Policy: The Response to Disadvantage Among Young People — Are
We Still Pathologising the Excluded?
By James Wilson, Director of Social Policy Development, Melbourne Central Division
of the Salvation Army
Understanding Youth Homelessness and its Policy Responses from a Psychological
Perspective
By Zoe Cooke, BA Hons, Dip Ed, Peer Education and Support Program
Chapter 3 – Key Themes in Youth Homelessness
Health
Improving Access to Mental Health Services for Young People: The Role of headspace
By Matt O’Brien, Craig Hodges and Sian Lloyd, headspace
Young People, Health Rights and Homelessness
By Julie Fry, Community Health Nurse, Royal District Nursing Service, Homeless
Persons Program
“Voices from the Street”— Public Safety and Youth Homelessness
By Tim Fry, Young People’s Health Service and Bruce Davis
Housing
Priced Out and Vulnerable — Young People’s Experiences in the Private Rental
Market
Contextualising the Housing Continuum: Housing and Homelessness for Young
People in Regional South Australia
By Margo Johnson, Sector Development Officer, Shelter SA
Sharing: The Pain
By Michele Slatter and Jo Baulderstone
Young Women
Hearing the Voices of Homeless Young Women: Safety and Human Rights Issues for
Young Women Experiencing Homelessness
By Carole Zufferey, PhD candidate, University of South Australia
Not Just Herstory: A Young Woman’s Story
By Jane Sanders, Shopfront Youth Legal Centre, Sydney
Service Delivery
Youth Homelessness Alliance Western (YHAW)
By Members of the YHAW
Opportunities for Young People in the Homelessness Service System to Participate in
Employment, Education and Training
By the YEETI Team
“It’s all therapeutic really...” FRMP — Key Findings 2006
By Mandy Baxter, Youth and Family Connections Manager, Melbourne Citymission
Creative Initiatives
Visionary Images’ “A-Lure” Project
By Georgina Luck, Project Coordinator, Visionary Images
Hip Hop Sessions Pilot Program: A Program Reflecting the Broader Advocacy Agenda
of the Young People’s Health Service
By Donna Eade, Young People’s Health Service
Just Ending My Pain
By Sarah Anton, Year 12
Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Young People
Homeless Twice: Homelessness Among Young Refugees
By Dr. Steve Francis, Policy Manager, Centre for Multicultural Youth Issues
Chapter 4 – Protecting the Rights of the Child
Earlier Intervention Under the Children, Youth And Families Act 2005
By the Child Protection and Family Services Branch of the Office for Children
Graduating from the Child Welfare System: Young People Leaving Care and
Homelessness in Victoria
By Badal Moslehuddin and Philip Mendes
Children’s Rights and Homelessness: A Bright Future?
By Amy Johnstone, Merri Outreach Support Service
Supporting Young People Leaving Care
By Michelle Marven and Sunitha Raman, Centre for Excellence in Child and Family
Welfare
Chapter 5 – Advocacy
Justice for Girls
By Nura Taefi and Asia Czapska, Justice for Girls
Advocating for the Human Rights of Young People
By Paula Grogan, Director, Youthlaw, Tiffany Overall, Advocacy and Human Rights
Officer, Youthlaw and Anna Radonic, Principal Lawyer, Youthlaw
Advocacy, Homelessness and the Diverse Needs of Young People
By Jen Rose, Policy Officer YACVic, Dr George Taleporos, Coordinator, Youth
Disability Advocacy Service and Jade Colgan, Co-ordinator, Victorian Indigenous
Youth Advisory Council
Infringing our Young People
By Kristen Hilton, Coordinator and Principal Solicitor of the PILCH Homeless Persons’
Legal Clinic
Advocacy and the Youth Worker
By Nada Vindis, Manager Youth Accommodation and Support Services, Melbourne
Citymission
Voting: Giving Voice
By Ursula Smith, Victorian Electoral Commission
Homelessness Advocacy Service: Understanding Advocacy, Complaints and
Consumer Participation
By Annie Paliwal, Coordinator, Homelessness Advocacy Service
Getting There
By Michele Safferey
Chapter 6 – Conclusion
Righting a Wrong
By Anna Forsyth, CHP Youth Policy Officer
The March Health and Homelessness: Future Directions Edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial: Not such a healthy balance
By Deb Tsorbaris, CEO, Council to Homeless Persons
When Systems Collide: The Challenges and Opportunities of Working from a Social
Inclusion Perspective
By Jill Whitehorn, Senior Adviser on Human Services, Social Inclusion Unit
Department of Premier and Cabinet, South Australia
The Health of Homeless SAAP Clients: A Report from the SAAP National Data
Collection Agency
By Justin Griffin, Head, Housing and Homelessness Cluster, AIHW
Listen Up — Workers in Health and Homelessness Tell Us the Key Issues
By Dorothy Campbell, Western Team Coordinator, Royal District Nursing Service,
Homeless Persons Program
Health, Aged Care and Housing — A Vital Link Needed for Older People
By Jeff Fiedler, Advice Worker, Housing for the Aged Action Group Inc
Health Service Response to Homelessness: Linkage Between Community Services
and Hospitals a Priority
By Gaye Moore, PhD Candidate, the University of Melbourne, St Vincent’s Hospital
Melbourne
Towards a QOF for Providers of Healthcare for People Experiencing Homelessness
By Professor Helen Lester, Professor of Primary Care and QOF expert panel lead,
University of Birmingham
Homeless People in Emergency Departments
Dr Georgina Phillips, Emergency Physician, St. Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne
Workforce Development: Allied Health and Homelessness
By Barbara Hill, General Manager Community Services and Integration, Western
Region Health Centre
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
By Jonathan Wilson
Home-In-Queanbeyan
By Dr Leanne Craze, Craze Lateral Solutions
Opinion
Dr. Andrew Dent,
Director of Emergency Medicine, St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne
The April "Gimme Shelter: Responding to Primary Homelessness" Edition of Parity
Contents
Foreword: Message from the Lord Mayor
Editorial: Primary Homelessness of Primary Concern
News: The National Homelessness Research Seminar
How Many People Experience Primary Homelessness?
By Chris Chamberlain, Director, Centre for Applied Social Research, RMIT University
Where Did You Sleep Last Night? Measuring Homelessness in Brisbane’s Inner City
By Anne Coleman
The 2004 Homelessness Count in Brisbane
Compiled by Adrian Pisarski, Executive Officer, Queensland Shelter
Counting the Homeless in the CBD
By Zoe Vale, Northern Housing Services Manager, HomeGround Services
Sleeping Out in Alice Springs: It’s Rough!
By Jonathan Pilbrow, Central Australian Policy Officer, NT Shelter
Nowhere to Go: Move-on Powers and Primary Homelessness in Brisbane
By Monica Taylor, Coordinator, QPILCH Homeless Persons’ Legal Clinic
Primary Homelessness over the Life Course
By Michelle Brady and Paul Flatau, University of Alberta and Murdoch University
Support for People Sleeping Rough — Evidence from the SAAP National Data
Collection Agency
By Justin Griffin, Head, Housing and Homelessness Cluster, Australian Institute of
Health and Welfare
Rough Sleepers – Where Do They Access SAAP Services?
By Rose Lai, Housing Policy and Support Branch, Department of Family, Community
Services and Indigenous Affairs
South Australia’s Homelessness Agenda
By Anni Telford, Senior Project Officer, High Needs Housing and Homelessness
Strategy, Housing Policy and Planning, Department for Families and Communities,
South Australia
Street to Home Service: A Brief Overview
By Melissa Bradley, Street to Home Service Coordinator and Greg Calder, Manager,
Inner City Homeless Programs, Street to Home Service
Housing First — Creative Outreach Responses to Client Centred Approaches
By Tabitha Wallis-Smith, Social Worker, Street to Home Service and Andrew Grant,
Clinical Mental Health Nurse, Street to Home Service, Adelaide
“Can you get me a house?” Marty’s Story – Creative Solutions to Long Term
Homelessness
By Melissa Bradley, Service Coordinator, Street to Home Service
Adelaide: A Capital City Working Towards Social Inclusion
By Jane Reed, Social Planner, Adelaide City Council
You Again? Homeless Frequent Presenters to the Emergency Department
By Sarah Curtis-Fawley, Community Liaison Team, Transitional and Community
Service, Royal Adelaide Hospital
Common Ground Adelaide – Whatever it Takes
By Julie Patterson, Project Director, Common Ground
Fostering Sustainable Pathways Out of Homelessness – City of Melbourne
Homelessness Framework 2007-2009 Primary Homelessness and Assertive Outreach
By Chris Middendorp, External Relations and Communication, Hanover Welfare
Services and Adjunct Professor Andrew Hollows, Manager, Research and Policy,
Hanover Welfare Services, and RMIT University
Responding to Primary Homelessness: Implementation of a Collaborative Living Skills
Program
By Angela Rondo, I-CHOSS Service Manager, Mission Australia, Sydney
Legal Responses to Primary Homelessness
By Mat Tinkler, Acting Coordinator and Principal Solicitor, PILCH Homeless Persons’
Legal Clinic
The Response to Rough Sleeping in England
Joanne Roberts, Communications Officer, Homeless Link
Ending Primary Homelessness in Melbourne
Toronto –Streets to Homes Program
By Iain De Jong and Laural Raine, Streets to Homes Program, Toronto Canada
Opinion
Is a 75% Reduction in Primary Homelessness Possible in Australia?
By Christine Black, Black Ink Writing and Consulting
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The May On Her Own: Single Homeless Women Edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial
Single Homeless Females: Data from the SAAP National Data Collection
By Felicity Murdoch, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Women Who Are Single and Homeless: Myths and Realities
By Liz Syngajewski, Darlene O’Leary, Janine Koch, Deirdre Flynn and Helen Owens,
Catherine House
Homeless Women and Violence: Rethinking the Connection
By Sue Grigg, Manager, Research and Program Development, the Salvation Army
Crisis Services, and Guy Johnson, Centre for Applied Social Research, RMIT University
From Exclusion to Inclusion: Beginning the Journey
By Ann Davies, Women’s Services Manager, Sacred Heart Mission
Gwen’s Story: What the ‘Home’ Provides
By Tracey O’Donnell, Ana Petidis, Helen Riseborough, Adjunct Professor Andrew
Hollows, Hanover Welfare Services
On Common Ground: Single Women’s Homelessness and the Women’s Refuge
Movement — A Reflection
By Jacqui Theobald
Empowering Young Women Facing Homelessness: Young Women’s Place and the My
Place Project
By Alison Smith, Youth Worker, Young Women’s Place
Homelessness and the Single Woman
By Mary Campbell, Manager Women’s House, Sacred Heart Mission
The Causes of Homelessness Among Single Homeless Women: The Role of Mental
Health Issues
By Sharon Toohey
Domestic Violence and Mental Illness/Substance Abuse: A Survey of 39 New Zealand
Refuges
By Debbie Hager
The Invisible Barrier
By Ella Mason, Young Women’s Crisis Service, Melbourne Citymission
Homeless Women with Mental Health Issues: A Challenge for Social Inclusion
By Lisa Jager, Senior Caseworker, Margaret O’Loughlin and Sharon Villaneuva,
Caseworkers Homefront, Sacred Heart Mission
“Call Me By My First Name” — Homeless Women on the Inside, Homeless on the
Outside
By Dallas Tayor, Flat Out Inc
Opinion
Housing Issues for Women with Complex Needs
By Louisa Di Censco, Helen Riseborough and Cathy Humphrey
On behalf of the Inner South Women’s Network sponsored by Hanover and Sacred
Heart Mission
The June "Supporting Homeless Families" Edition of Parity
Contents
Prioritising Children:
How Can We Improve Responses to Family Homelessness?
By Lucinda Jordan and Michael Horn
Sustaining Housing after Homelessness:
Framing a Model of Practice for Families and their Children
By Jo Ruffin
Government Reaches Out to Help Homeless Families
By Senator the Hon Nigel Scullion
Better Pathways to a Brighter Future for Australia’s Homeless
By Tanya Plibersek MP
Centrelink Social Worker’s Role in Early Intervention and Prevention of Family
Homelessness
By Milos Cvjeticanin
Children Experiencing Homelessness: A Consistent Reality Requiring Distinct Policy
Attention
Homeless Young Families and Accompanying Children: Making a Difference
By Sue Carlile
Group Work a Therapeutic Response to Supporting Indigenous
Children who have Experienced Homelessness and Family Violence
By Katrina McAuley
Women and Children Experiencing Family Violence are the Face of Homelessness
By Alison Macdonald
Innovative Service Provision for Aboriginal People
Chantal Roberts
When Imprisonment Leaves the Family Behind
By Melanie Field-Pimm and Jenelle Miller
In Context: Responding to Family Homelessness in WA
By Karoline Jamieson
Addressing Service Needs for Men and Children
By Shane Spencer
Innovative Approaches to Working with Children
By Janine Sheridan
The Housing Crisis for Families: Analysis of Options in Melbourne’s North East
By Chris Chaplin
Children’s Counselling Service: An Integrated Response to Meet the Unique Needs of
Children in SAAP Services
By Kay Lavender, Linda Ward and Ralph Olsson
Supporting Families Excluded from the Homelessness Service System
By Helen Coppins, Kylie Groen, Kaye Finnin, Jo Ruffin and Lucy Bowring
Homelessness: Stories from the Street, the Experience of Service Provision
By Graeme Stuart, Ros Giles and Jo Hamilton
Enhancing Our Work with Families: “The Bright Futures Enhanced Case Management
Model”
By Amy Johnstone, Romy Same and Courtney Wamala
Supporting Young Mothers: Considering Family
By Deb Keys
Bright Futures The Next Step in Responding to Family Homelessness
By Naomi McNamara
A Focus on Prevention
By Stuart Evans
On Therapy and Homelessness
By Cath Mackie
Brighter Futures for Homeless Families
By Mary Reay
What is the Experience for Homeless Children in a Rural Context?
By Leeanne Nicholson, Anne Harrington and Karen Glennen
Child Abuse and Family Law
By Thea Brown
Taking a Constructivist Approach to Family Support Services
By Graham Brown
Combined Efforts Lead to Secure and Stable Accommodation
By Mark Jefferey
Pioneering New Homelessness Project
By Mark Jefferey
Women’s Integrated Support Program
By David Marnie
Prevention is Better Than Cure
By Zofia Cloc
‘Things that worry me at night’: A Practitioner’s Perspective on Supporting Families
Experiencing Homelessness
A conversation between Mary Riley and Dr Andrew Hollows
Opinion — Janet Jukes
Opinion — David Marnie
The July: Rooming and Boarding Houses: At the Crossroads" Edition of Parity
CONTENTS
Tenuous and Dangerous . . .“Go to a Boarding House? I would rather sleep out!”
By Kim Gallagher and Mark Gove, HomeGround Services Inner Middle-South
What Is A Rooming House?
By Heather Cartmel, Senior Project Officer, Social Housing System Development
Housing Sector Development
Why Traditional Rooming Houses are an Outdated and Substandard Housing Type
By Rob Leslie, CEO Yarra Community Housing
Consumer Affairs Victoria: Improving Rooming House Standards and Protecting the
Rights of Residents
By Dr Sevgi Kilic, Program Manager, Residential Accommodation, Corporate
Programs and Projects Branch, Consumer Affairs Victoria
The Inner Urban Rooming House Project: A decade of partnerships working
towards Rooms for the Future
By Kate Incerti, Housing Information and Support Worker, Port Phillip City Council
and members of the Inner Urban Rooming House Project Working Group.
Limited Care, No Responsibility: The plight of residents of licensed
and unlicensed boarding houses in NSW
By Myree Harris, RSJ
The Inner South Rooming House Project — Is this a Halfway House or a Home?
We Gotta Get Out of this Place: A Future for Rooming and Boarding house
Accommodation
Health Time: Breaking Down Barriers in Boroondara
By Jessica Bishop and Nick Levin, Inner East Community Health Service
Support in Rooming Houses Can Change Lives
By Garry McKenzie, Barwon South West Salvation Army Social Housing Service
Housing Support Manager
The Good and Bad of Living in a Private Hotel
By Wendy Butler
Allan has no Truck with Living on the Streets
By Janet Graham
Rooming House Owners and Managers Association (RHOMA)
By Nick Curmi, Port Phillip Community Group
Darebin Council Closes Sub-standard Housing
By Julie Nelson, HomeGround Services
The Pragmatic Response to the Placement Imperative: Using Poor Operators to
House Our Clients
By Linda Cresp, Housing Information and Referral Worker and Karren Walker,
Manager, St Vincent de Paul Housing Services
Netty Horton, General Manager, and Trish Watson Research/Policy Officer, St
Vincent de Paul Aged Care & Community Services
All about Roominations: Ruminating on a Radio Program
By Gerard Ahearne, Housing Worker — Community Development Yarra Community
Housing
ROOMIES ARTSPACE
By Leigh Connell, the Boarding and Rooming House Project, Newtown
Neighbourhood Centre
Standards in the Rooming House Sector
By Rebecca Harrison, Research & Policy Worker, Tenants Union of Victoria
Opinion
Rooming Houses and Homelessness: A Personal Perspective
By John Enticott, General Manager,St Kilda Community Housing Ltd
The August 2007 “Future Directions for Homelessness Research” Edition of Parity
Editorial
1. The 5th National Homelessness Conference:
An Opportunity to Discuss and Promote Homelessness Research
By y Beverley Atkins, Events Co-ordinator
2. Introduction
The Challenges Ahead
By Assoc. Prof. Chris Chamberlain, Director, Centre for Applied Social Research, RMIT
University
3. The National Homelessness Research Seminar: Developing a Way Forward on
Homelessness Research
By David Wright-Howie, CHP Policy Officer
4. Researching Homelessness 1982 – 2007: Some Questions
5. Perspectives on Homelessness Research
6. But is it homelessness research, Virginia?’: Definitions, Risks and Reflections from
the Field
By Michele Slatter and Jo Baulderstone
7. SAAP Data and Research
By Justin Griffin, Head, Housing and Homelessness Cluster, and Anne Giovanetti,
Head, Supported Accommodation and Crisis Services Unit, Australian Institute of
Health and Welfare
8. Inclusive Research Practice in Homelessness
By Robyn Martin and Nola Kunnen, Curtin University of Technology, Perth
9. Mis)Understanding Homelessness: Re-Framing the Research Questions
Felicity Reynolds, Manager, Community Support and Access, City of Sydney
10. Homelessness Research – The Office of Housing Perspective
By Bree Oliver, Project Leader, Housing and Community Building Division
11. The Standpoint of the Homeless: The Starting Point of Research?
12. Aspects of a Successful National Homelessness Research Program
AHURI
13. The Cost-Effectiveness of Homelessness Programs
By Paul Flatau and Kaylene Zaretzky, Murdoch University
14. Inner South Rooming House Project – an Action Research Approach
Ruth Gordon, Principal Consultant, Resolve Community Consulting
15. The Wicking Project: Research Supporting Older Homeless People with Alcohol
Related Brain Injury and Complex Needs
16. The Geography of Rural Homelessness in Australia: Towards a New Research
Agenda
By Fran Rolley and Neil Argent, University of New England
17. The Needs of Students in Youth SAAP Services Accommodation
By Cheryl Hillier and Leanne Cornell-March, Service to Youth Council Inc
18. Opinion: Making a Difference: Using Research to Respond To Homelessness
Simon Smith, Policy and Research Manager, Homelessness Australia
The September "Mental Health, Housing and Homelessness” Edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial
By Michael Cassar, Chief Executive Officer, Psychiatric Disability Services of Victoria
(VICSERV)
and Deb Tsorbaris, Chief Executive Officer, Council to Homeless Persons
Foreword —
Come in the Front Door...Name Please?
By Anne Maree Rogers, Regional Manager, Homelessness, Support and Specialist
Programs, Salvation Army EastCare
Chapter 1:
Framing the Discussion of Mental Health and Homelessness
Homeless SAAP Clients with a Mental Health Problem
By Lynda Carney, SAAP National Data Collection Agency, Australian Institute of
Health and Welfare
Mental Health Outcomes Among Clients of Homelessness Programs
Just Like Home: Mental Health and Homelessness — A Short Comparison Between
the British and Australian Experience
By Colin Robinson
New Research Project: Evidence-Informed Case Management Practice for Homeless
Persons’ Agencies
By Hellene Gronda, Project Worker, AHURI
Chapter 2:
Policy Settings
Towards Inter-Sectoral Support Models in Mental Health
By James Wilson Executive Officer, Network for Carers, Victoria
A Unique Partnership Approach to Achieve a Cohesive Mental Health —
Homelessness Service System
By Susan Curmi, Program Manager, Norwood Association Inc.
Let’s Start Again: Recognising the Complex Relationship Between Mental Health and
Homelessness
By Simon Smith, Policy and Research Manager, Homelessness Australia
Chapter 3:
From the Coalface, the Experience of Services
Home Wasn’t Built in a Day: A Homeless Health Outreach Team Success Story
By Emma Martin and Deanna Erskine, On behalf of the Homeless Health Outreach
Team, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital Division of Mental Health
A Journey to Social Inclusion: A Service Model that will enable those who are
Entrenched in Homelessness and Socially Excluded to Find a Place in Society
By Michael Perusco, CEPO, Sacred Heart Mission
The Doutta Galla Community Health Service: Program Experiences
By Andrew Shakespeare, Arion Coordinator and Cameron North, HOPS Case
Manager
The Intensive Home-Based Outreach Program
By Wendy Marven, Intensive Home Based Outreach Worker and Jon Martin, Inner
West Outreach Coordinator
Challenges in Responding to Complex Psychosocial Patient-Need in a Bio-Medical
Model
By Nicole Hill, David Brophy and James Gullifer, ALERT, St Vincent’s Hospital
Melbourne
The Experience of a Psychiatric Disability Specific Housing Service
By Sharlene Bennett, Whirrakee Coordinator, St Lukes, Bendigo Victoria
Chapter 4:
The Importance of Housing
Stable housing: The Foundation of Improved Mental Health. Findings from the
Housing and Accommodation Support Initiative (HASI)
By Kristy Muir and Karen Fisher
The Importance of Housing for People with Serious Mental Illness
By Tom Meehan, Director, Service Evaluation and Research (The Park) and Senior
Lecturer (University of Queensland)
After the Institution: What Next?
By Meg Carter, Research Fellow, Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University
of Technology
“Where Do You Go When Your Last Resort Has Closed?”
By Ann Smith, Operational Manager and Tom Stylli, (Team Leader — Specialist
Programs) Salvation Army EastCare
Chapter 5:
Giving Voice
Nothing Worse Than Being Alone: A Case Study
Interviewee: Jennifer Riley, written by Melinda Soos, Regina Coeli Community Inc.
Piter’s Story
Interviewed by newparadigm Editor, Matt Clear and newparadigm Editorial
Assistant, Kristie Lennon
No Limits PDRSS & VicHealth Promoting Mental Health and Wellbeing Through
Constructive Engagement
By James McCracken, Community Mental Health Worker, No Limits PDRSS, St Mary’s
House of Welcome
Conclusion
Mental Health, Housing and the Problem of Supply
By Ben Ilsley, Policy and Research Officer, Psychiatric Disability Services of Victoria
(VICSERV)
The October "Responding to Homelessness in New Zealand" Edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial
Introduction
By Clare Aspinall, Social Environments Advisor, Regional Public Health, Lower Hutt
Chapter 1: Understanding Homelessness in New Zealand
A: A Definition for New Zealand
Defining Homelessness: Implications for Policy
By Dr Chez Leggatt-Cook, for Methodist Mission Northern
B: A Framework
A Public Health Approach to Homelessness
By Kate Amore and Clare Aspinall,Social Environments Advisor, Regional Public
Health, Lower Hutt
C: Getting the Numbers
Auckland City Street Count Results 2007
By Lynsey Ellis, Homeless Team Coordinator, Community Mental Health and Wilf
Holt, Team Leader Crisis Care, Auckland City Mission
Geographies of Homelessness in New Zealand
By Damian Collins and Robin Kearns, Geography Department, Auckland University
D: Women
Women’s Homelessness and Family Violence
By Kate Amore, University of Otago and Debbie Robinson, National Collective of
Independent Women’s Refuges
Homelessness: A Hidden Problem for Women in New Zealand
By Debbie Hager, Homeworks Trust, Auckland
E: Men
Just Housed: The Housing Experience of Men on Their Own
By Bonnie Robinson and Dr Leanne Smith, the Salvation Army Social Policy and
Parliamentary Unit
F: Considering Causes
Driven, Dropped, Drawn: Pathways into Homelessness in Wellington
By Kate Amore, University of Otago
Gambling as a Preceptor for Homelessness
By Kate Bukowski, The Salvation Army, New Zealand
Chapter 2: The Leading Role of Local Government
Homelessness in Auckland: A Local Council’s Response
By Councillor Betty McClaren and Rina Tagore, Senior Community and Social Policy
Planner, Community Planning, City of Auckland
Shared Goal to End Homelessness: A Wellington City Council Perspective
By Wellington City Council
Enough Already: Quantifying the Cost of Homelessness in Auckland
By Sarah Lang, Committee for Auckland
A Plan for Homeless and Marginalised Populations in Auckland’s Inner City
By Gravitas Research and Strategy
Chapter 3: Housing
Responding to Homelessness: Housing New Zealand
By Mike Stringfellow, Housing New Zealand
Blind Faith in Markets
By Alan Johnson, Social Policy Analyst, The Salvation Army Social Policy &
Parliamentary Unit
Comcare Trust Housing Service: Specialist Housing Responses for People Who
Experience Mental Illness and are Facing Homelessness
By Louise Lewis, Comcare Trust
“When things go wrong they really go wrong” Can a group like Tenants Protection
Association help to prevent homelessness? Yes!
By Helen Gatonyi, Lisa Coulter and Ali Brunel, the Tenants Protection Association,
Christchurch
Housing Issues in Northland
By Chrissy McLoughlin, Emergency Housing Coordinator, Whangarei Emergency
Housing Charitable Trust
Rebuilding the Kiwi Dream
By Alan Johnson, Social Policy Analyst, the Salvation Army Social Policy and
Parliamentary Unit
Chapter 4: From the Coalface
A Collaborative Approach: Increasing Access to Services for Our Forgotten People
By Jak Wild, Community Outreach Co-Coordinator, Wellington Community Alcohol
and Drug Service
Holly House: A Case for Supported Housing for Young Mothers
By Liz Russell and Anna Thorpe, Christchurch City Council
Homeless Outreach Treatment Team (HOTT)
By Lynsey Ellis, Homeless Team Coordinator, Community Mental Health
Street 10
By Lisa Mora, Manager, Street 10, Inner City Interagency Trust
Two Lives and a Bus Shelter
By Sister Margaret Mary
Falling Outside the Square and Between the Cracks: Social Crisis and Homelessness
By Bren Balcombe, Project Manager, Whatever it Takes Trust
Homelessness in Hakes Bay — “Paul’s Story”
Complied by Paula Comerford,Property Group/WIT
Christchurch City Mission Night Shelter
By Michael Gorman, City Commissioner, Christchurch City Mission
Wellington Needs a Wet House
By Stephanie McIntyre, Director, Downtown Community Ministry, Wellington
Chapter 5: Advocating for the Future
The New Zealand Coalition To End Homelessness
Homelessness Strategy Toolkit
Developed by The New Zealand Coalition to End Homelessness 2007
The November 20th Anniversary Edition of Parity
Contents
Foreword
Richard Wynne, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs | Minister for Housing | Minister for
Local Government
Editorial — Now For the Commitment to End Homelessness
Deb Tsorbaris, Chief Executive Officer, Council to Homeless Persons
Introduction
Noel Murray, Parity Editor
Two Decades of Homelessness Policy: The Known and Unknown
By Christine Black, Black Ink Writing
The Last 20 Years — SAAP, Identity and Language
Providing Housing with Support
Mental Health and Homelessness or Homelessness and Mental Health
By Guy Johnson and Sue Grigg
The Australian Council of Social Service, Housing and Homelessness, 1987–2007
By Philip Mendes, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Work, Monash
University
The Wheel Turns for Homeless Indigenous People in Darwin, 1967–2007
Dr Bill Day
Homelessness and Domestic Violence Social Policy in Australia
Participation in Homelessness Services: A Matter of Trust
By Doug Harding, Consumer Participation/Rights Officer, SVDP Aged Care and
Community Services, Victoria
Making the Connection: The State of the ‘Homelessness Industry’
By Martin Whiteford, PhD Candidate, Institute of Health and Community Studies,
Bournemouth University
The Homeless Person a Neo-Liberal Outcaste: Policing the Ever-stricter
Insider/outsider Divide
By Dr Mark Furlong, Lecturer in Social Work, LaTrobe University
A Question of Policy
By Peter Barlow
Room at the Top? The Role of the Peaks
By Netty Horton, General Manager, Community Services, St Vincent de Paul Aged
Care and Community Services
2008
The February "To Make a Difference: Human Rights and Homelessness" Edition of
Parity
Contents
Foreword
Rob Hulls, Deputy Premier and Attorney-General
Editorial
Dr. Christina Birdsall-Jones, Research Fellow, John Curtin Institute of Public Policy,
Curtin University of Technology
Interview with Tanya Plibersek, Minister for Housing and Minister for the Status of
Women
Introduction: The Human Rights Agenda and Homelessness in Australia
Can Rights Solve the Issue of Homelessness?
By Graeme Innes AM, Human Rights Commissioner, Human Rights and Equal
Opportunity Commission
Chapter 1: The Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities
Harnessing the Charter for the Homeless
By Anna Forsyth, Human Rights Legal Officer and Harinder Kaur Grewal, Human
Rights Community Educator, Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights
Commission
The Victorian Charter: Keeping Your Eyes on the Prize
By Caroline Adler, Manager/Principal Lawyer, PILCH Homeless Persons’ Legal Clinic
Getting it Right: What Does the Victorian Charter of Human Rights and
Responsibilities Mean for Homelessness Services?
By Philip Lynch, Director, Human Rights Law Resource Centre
What Can the Victorian Charter Do for Homeless People?
By Edward Santow, Senior Lecturer in Law UNSW, Director of the Charter of Human
Rights Project at the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law
Human Rights, the Victorian Charter and Homelessness: The Experience of Hanover
By Dr Andrew Hollows, Hanover Welfare Services
Chapter 2: Australian Human Rights Models
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Rights Protection for the Homeless Under the
ACT Human Rights Act
By Anne Macduff, Lecturer, Australian National University
Home Truths: Housing Rights Under the Human Rights Act
By Gabrielle McKinnon, Faculty of Law, Australian National University
Chapter 3: International Examples and Models
The Impact that Failed to Eventuate: Homelessness and the UK’s Human Rights Act
By Michelle Pratley, Barrister, Gray’s Inn Square, London and Michelle Bradfield,
Research Fellow, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge
Human Rights and Homelessness in the UK
By Caroline Hunter, Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester
The True North Strong and Free? The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms’
Impact on Homelessness
By Vanessa Oliver, York University, Canada
A New Zealand Approach to Extending Human Rights
By Jennifer Ngatia, Policy Analyst, New Zealand Human Rights Commission
The Right to Access to Adequate Housing: The South African Experience
By Kristen Hilton, Executive Director, Public Interest Law Clearing House (PILCH)
Victoria
Chapter 4: Human Rights and Homelessness: Issues at Stake
The Use of the Protocol for Homeless People During APEC
By Elisabeth Baraka, Coordinator, Homeless Persons’ Legal Service
Homeless persons’ Views on Rights: ‘I feel I have got just enough rights to breathe.
They are the only rights I’ve got’
By Tamara Walsh, T.C. Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland
Make Poverty His Story
By John Tomlison, Queensland University of Technology
Human Rights and Homelessness in Rural Victoria
By Jude Di Manno, Coordinator, Loddon Mallee Accommodation Network (LOMA)
‘Set-up to Fail’: Ex-Prisoners, Homelessness and Human Rights
By Chris Hartley, Policy Officer, Homeless Persons’ Legal Service
The March "Models of Supportive Housing" Edition of Parity
Editorial
By Deb Tsorbaris, CEO Council to Homeless Persons
Chapter 1: What is Supportive Housing?
What is Housing First and Supportive Housing?
By Ruth Gordon, Principal Consultant, Resolve Community Consulting
Supportive Housing: Description and History
By the Supportive Housing Network of New York
What is Supportive Housing?
By the Corporation for Supportive Housings (CSH)
Supportive Housing: Ending Homelessness for the Hardest to Serve
By Nan Roman and Webb Lyons, National Alliance to End Homelessness, Washington
DC, USA
Supportive Housing: Myths and Facts
By the Supportive Housing Network of New York
Chapter 2: Contextualising Supportive Housing
Supportive Housing in Australian and North American Contexts
By Deb Tsorbaris, CEO Council to Homeless Persons
Supportive Housing: Case Studies
By Christine Black, Black Ink Writing
City of Melbourne Research for Development of the Supportive Housing/Housing
First Model
By Nanette Mitchell, Senior Social Planner, Housing and Homelessness, City of
Melbourne
Chapter 3: Arguments for Supportive Housing
Why Melbourne Needs a Common Ground-style Supportive Housing Model
Can Australia Afford Not to Provide Supportive Housing?
By Felicity Reynolds, CEO, Mercy Foundation
In Support of Supportive Housing
By Rob Leslie, CEO, Yarra Community Housing
Chapter 4: Perspectives on Housing and Supportive Housing
Providing Housing with Support
By Bryan Lipmann AM, CEO, Wintringham
Housing and Homelessness: An Opinion
By John Enticott, General Manager, St Kilda Community Housing Ltd/ St Kilda
Rooming House Issues Group Inc
Taking off the Blinkers: Common Themes in Housing People who Require Support
By Joseph Connellan, Director, MC Two Pty Ltd
Chapter 5: Some Overseas Models
Recovering from Homeless Takes More Than an Address: The Importance of Housing
and Support to Successful Tenancy
By Brigitte Witkowski, Executive Director, Mainstay Housing
Supportive Housing in Vancouver, Canada
By Jill Davidson, Homeless Policy Coordinator, City of Vancouver
The Philosophy Not the Model
By Steve Coe, Executive Director, Community Access, New York
Common Ground: Ending Homelessness, One Person at a Time
By Rosanne Haggerty, President Common Ground, New York
Chapter 6: Some Australian Contributions to Supportive Housing
From Corrective Services to the Community: How an Holistic Approach Assists the
Whole Community
By Katrina Bettington, Case Manager, Transitional Support Service, New Horizons
Enterprises
Preventing Homelessness through Long-Term Case Management
By Susan McDermott, Services Manager, Homeless Services, Catholic Healthcare
Rooming House Plus Project, Supported Housing in Melbourne
By Michael Perusco, CEO, Sacred Heart Mission
Abolishing Homelessness for People with a Mental Illness, A Collaborative Approach
By Tracey de Casanove, HASI State Manager, New Horizons Enterprises and Zain
Constantine, HASI support Worker, On Track
Wintringham: Providing Appropriate Supported Housing to the Elderly Homeless
By Dr Alice Rota-Bartelink, Research Manager and Kate Rice, Community Housing
and Support Manager, Northern Region
Supportive Housing — Further Information
Opinion
The April "Responding to Homelessness in South Australia" Edition of Parity
Foreword
Mike Rann, Premier of South Australia, Minister for Social Inclusion
The Last Word
Editorial
The Last Word – Stuart K
Introduction: The South Australian Context
Social Inclusion at Work: The South Australian Social Inclusion Approach to Ending
Homelessness
By Suraya Naidoo, Policy Officer, Social Inclusion Unit, Department of the Premier
and Cabinet
SAAP South Australia
By Ms Sharlene Ting, Graduate Officer, Housing Statistical Services, Housing Policy,
Housing SA, South Australian Department for Families and Communities
Counting the Homeless in Adelaide: A Collaborative Approach
By Nancy Rogers, Manager, Research and Analysis, Department for Families and
Communities
A Bold New Future?
By Cécile Dutreix, General Manager Operations, Offenders Aid and Rehabilitation
Services of SA Inc
Adelaide City Council’s Response to Homelessness
By Jane Reed, Social Planner, Adelaide City Council
The Last Word – Patrick W
Chapter 1: Housing
Affordable Housing Opportunities for High Needs Persons
By Belinda Hallsworth, Senior Project Officer, SA Affordable Housing Trust,
Department for Families and Communities
Finding My Place: The Private Rental Liaison Project
By the Special Projects and Initiatives Unit — Housing SA, Department for Families
and Communities
Collaborative Inter-Agency Approach to Sustainable Housing
By Greg Calder, Manager, Homeless Programs, Street to Home Service, Primary
Health Care Services, Central Northern Adelaide Health Service, and Dot Casey,
Housing Support Coordinator (Adelaide), Housing SA
The Tenants’ Information and Advisory Service, (TIAS)
By Helen Connolly, Acting Executive Manager, Family and Community Development,
Anglicare SA
Street to Home Service: A Housing First Approach to Assisting People Move Out of
Primary Homelessness
By Greg Calder, Manager, Homeless Programs, Street to Home Service, Primary
Health Care Services, Central Northern Adelaide Health Service
The Supported Tenancies Program
By Michael Boyt, Acting Project Officer, Office for Homelessness and High Need
Housing, Affordable Housing and Sector Development, Department for Families and
Communities
Finding a Place to Live: The Boarding House Outreach Support Program A Social
Inclusion Initiative
By Anni Telford, Senior Project Officer, Office for Homelessness and High Need
Housing, Department for Families and Communities
Common Ground Adelaide: Helping To Rebuild People’s Lives
By Lana Johnson, Manager Program Services, Common Ground Adelaide
Housing Legal Clinic: Finding Solutions, Leading with Innovation
By Bill Manallack, Housing Legal Clinic (HLC), Adelaide
The Last Word – Julian W
Chapter 2: Young People
Homeless Young People in South Australia: Their Thoughts and Experiences with
YSAAP Accommodation Services and Trace-A-Place
By Erin Bermingham, Trace-A-Place Assessment Worker, SYC Youth Agency
Homelessness Programs
Finding A Place: Tangibles And Intangibles In The Journey Of Young People From
Being In Care To A Secure Home In The Community
By Pam Simmons, South Australian Guardian for Children and Young People
Trace A Place: The South Australian Response to Young People who are Homeless
By Leanne Cornell-March, Coordinator, Homelessness Programs Youth Agency,
Service to Youth Council, Inc
The Last Word – Douglas F
Chapter 3: Health
Preventing the Death of Homeless People
By Dr John Brayley, Safety and Quality Systems Consultant, Mitcham, Adelaide
New Inner City Drug and Alcohol Service for Aboriginal People
By Patricia Gibbs, Team Coordinator, Aboriginal Substance Misuse Connection
Program (ASMCP)
A Collaborative Approach to Caring for Homeless Older People
By Pamela Shepherd, Community Liaison Team, Royal Adelaide Hospital
City Watch House Community Nursing Service
By S. Toepfer, B. Patterson and J. Nicholson
The Little Event that Could: Adelaide’s Homelessness, Health and Housing Expo
Building Blocks for Success
By Meg Lewis, Nursing Director, Orthopaedic and Trauma Service and Transitional
and Community Service, Royal Adelaide Hospital
No Pulgi (‘No Home’ in Ngarrindjeri language)
By Eva Pratt, Leslie Dunbar, Jacqui Bonfield and Norbert Hohl
The Psychiatric Disability Service:
Regional Expansion Emu Farm – Port Augusta
By Judy Clutterbuck, Senior Service Coordinator, Psychiatric Disability Service,
Exceptional Needs Unit, Disability SA
The Last Word – Eleanor S
Chapter 4: Domestic and Family Violence and Homeless Women
Domestic Violence and Homelessness: Working with Offenders from a Strength
Perspective
By Tony Hataier, Men’s Counsellor, Domestic Violence / Men and Family
Relationships
‘‘Educating Women out of Homelessness” A Vocational Education and Development
Program
By Joanna Ellis, Liz Syngajewski, Justine Ryan, Kathryn Walsh and Helen Owen,
Catherine House Inc
Good News From the “Too Hard Basket”: Working Toward a Good Practice Model for
Aboriginal Family Violence
By Megan Hughes and Rosney Snell, Project Managers, Nunga Mi: Minar Southern
Domestic Violence Service (SDVS)
Sexual Violence, Trauma and Homelessness: Why are our Responses Disengaged
By David Tully, Team Manager SideStreet Counselling Service, UnitingCare Wesley
Adelaide
Learning About and Building Collaboration: A rural community talks about
responding to domestic and family violence at the local level
By Dr Sarah Wendt, Kara Piltz and Phil Dunkley
The Children’s Wellbeing Program
By Helen Ware, Children’s Wellbeing Program, Yarredi Services, Port Lincoln
Someone to Talk To: One Woman’s Account of Her City and Country Experiences of
Homelessness
By Elizabeth Trickett, University of South Australia, Social Work and Social Policy PhD
candidate
The Last Word – Genevieve H
Chapter 5: Practice Issues
‘I know that I am not alone’: Integrated Service Delivery in the South
By Jo Baulderstone, Director, Flinders Institute of Public Policy and Management,
Flinders University of South Australia
Homelessness: Enterprise Solutions to Old Problems
By Helen Connolly, Acting Executive Manager, Family and Community Development,
Anglicare SA
Change Agents? Social Work Responses to Homelessness in South Australia
By Dr Carole Zufferey, University of South Australia
Byron Place Community Centre Long Term Casework Model
By Marija Podnieks, MSW., PhD, Communication (Proc), Senior Social Worker, Byron
Place
The Social Inclusion Benefits of Long Term Community Support
By Chris Talbot, Executive Manager, Research & Development, UnitingCare Wesley,
Adelaide
Homelessness, a Regional Perspective: OARS SA in Mount Gambier
By Mark Schroeder, OARS, Mt Gambier
Tom Karpany House SAAP Program
By Christine Plush, Program Manager, Psychiatric Disability Service, Exceptional
Needs Unit
Assertively Responding to Homeless and Excluded Individuals with High and Complex
Needs
By Christine Plush, Judy Clutterbuck and Glorija Kuzman, Psychiatric Disability Service
(PDS)
Assertive Outreach and Intensive Case Management
By Scott Kerdel, Street to Home Services, Primary Health Care Services, Central
Northern Adelaide Health Service
The Last Word – Denise M
Chapter 6: Creative Responses
Art For a Better World
By Andrea Wilson, Better World Arts
Painting for Pleasure
Hutt Street Centre Art Group
Opinion
Attacking Homelessness –Not Just About Housing
By Monsignor David Cappo AOSA Commissioner for Social Inclusion, Chair, SA Social
Inclusion Board
The May 5th National Homelessness Conference Edition
Chairperson’s Welcome
By Annabel Senior, Chair, Homelessness Australia
Homeless Country
By Jax Roan, Rural and Regional Representative, Homelessness Australia,
Homelessness Network Coordinator, Grampians Region, Victoria
Street Soccer — Give it a Go!
By James Maiden and Beverley Atkins
True Representation or Token Position?
By Angela Nesci, NESB Representative, Homelessness Australia
On the Outside: Pathways in and out of Homelessness
By Guy Johnson, Hellene Gronda and Sally Coutts
Barriers to Access to SAAP Services in Australia: Focusing on Tasmania
By Judith Woodland, Consultant, Evolving Ways, Victoria and Jan Forbes, Senior
Housing Consultant, Housing Tasmania
Measuring the Impact of SAAP Services on Client Self-reliance
Dr Tony Eardley, Dr Denise Thompson and Professor Bettina Cass, Social Policy
Research Centre, University of New South Wales
Kings Cross Youth at Risk Project
By Cindi Petersen, Project Coordinator, the Kings Cross Youth at Risk Project
Having Trouble Finding Information about Homelessness?
The Homelessness Information Clearinghouse
Homelessness International: Where Does Australia Sit?
By David Wright-Howie, Senior Policy Officer, Council to Homeless Persons
Housing and Social Support Needs of Aboriginal Women with Dependent Children
Leaving Prison
By Associate Professor Eileen Baldry, Jackie Ruddock and Jo Taylor
Are They Really Working? A Critique of ‘10 Year Plans to End Homelessness’
Not Just a Bed
By Christine Halsey, Chairperson, Minister’s Strategic Housing Advisory Committee,
South Australia
Ending Family Homelessness: A Possible Dream
By Karyn Walsh and Briannon Stevens, Micah Projects
From Sydney Squat to Complex Services Challenging Domestic and Family Violence:
Taking Stock
By Julie Oberin, Victorian representative WESNET National Committee and CEO,
Annie North Inc. Women’s Refuge and Domestic Violence Service
Bright Future’s: The Next Step in Improving the Homelessness Support System for
Children and Families
By Naomi McNamara, Merri Outreach Support Service
Sustaining Housing through Early Intervention: Successes of the Home Advice
Program
By Zofia Cloc and Mandy Lake, in the HOME Advice Program in Dandenong
Lowering the Bar: A Study of Substandard Boarding House Conditions and
Environments
By Allan Martin and Thea Bates, The North and West Melbourne Homelessness
Action Group (HAG)
Supported Accommodation Assistance Programs and Community Housing: Emerging
Directions in a Changing Funding Landscape
By Nick Sabel, Executive Officer, Wentworth Area Community Housing and Rachel
Louttit, Housing Options Worker, Wentworth Area Community Housing
A Recipe for Success: How independent living skills can prevent accommodation
breakdown in young offenders exiting secure care
By Emma Thompson and Elizabeth O’Connell, Service to Youth Council (SYC), South
Australia
The Experience of Homelessness for CALD Young People in Melbourne’s West
By Damian Mason, Youth Support Worker, Student Program, Footscray Youth
Housing Group
Housing Broome: A Community Led Process
By Rowena Strain and Frantessa Cox, Broome Circle
Creating More Room: Agency cultural practices that resist replicating stigmatising
practices with clients exiting the prison system
By Jennifer Newton, Accommodation Support Worker, Women’s Accommodation
Support Service, Offenders Aid and Rehabilitation Services of SA Inc
Reducing Unmet Demand in SAAP: Pointers from the Evidence Base
By Justin Griffin, Head, Housing and Homelessness Cluster, Australian Institute of
Health and Welfare
Opinion
Simon Smith, Executive Officer, Homelessness Australia
The June" Green Paper" Edition
Contents
Editorial
Section One: The Green Paper
Introduction
The Homelessness White Paper — A Once in a Lifetime Opportunity to Reduce
Homelessness
By Tony Nicholson, Executive Director, Brotherhood of St Laurence and Chairperson
of the Steering Committee for the Green Paper
Which way home: a new approach to homelessness
Section Two: Some Initial Responses to the Green Paper
Beyond the Three Options
By Jane Bullen
Giving Victorians a Voice1
By Diana Wolfe, Media and Communications, Council to Homeless Persons
Consultation and Response: Your National Peak Body in the Green Paper Process
By Simon Smith, Executive Officer, Homelessness Australia
The Green Paper: Creating a Straw Man?
By Sue Grigg, Sally Coutts and Jenny Plant, Salvation Army, Melbourne Central
Division, Research and Advocacy Program
“the problem of homelessness is not insurmountable”
By Bryan Lipmann, AM, Chief Executive Officer, Wintringham
The Very First Step: What Are We Measuring?
What Would an Option Four Look Like?
By George Mudford, Policy/Projects Officer, NSW Youth Accommodation Association
What Do People Experiencing Homelessness Want?
By Dr Peta Raftery, Research Fellow, Flinders University
Broadening the Context: All Roads Must Lead to Home
By Karoline Jamieson, Manager Out of Home Care, Wanslea Family Services, Perth
Taking up the Challenge
By Anne Tuohey, Policy and Research Coordinator, SVDP, Aged Care and Community
Services
“Which Way Home?” The View from HAGG
By Jeff Fiedler, Tenancy Advice/Policy Worker, HAGG
‘Which Way Home?’ Too Many Gatekeepers to Circuitous and Craggy Paths?
Alice Through the Green Paper Looking Glass: Towards an Option Four
By Claire Nyblom, General Manager, Youth Services and Dr Shelley Mallett, General
Manager, Research and Social Policy, Melbourne Citymission
Beginning the National Conversation We Have to Have
By Karyn Walsh, Coordinator, Micah Projects Inc
Section Three: Some Issues and Themes
Section A: Health
A ‘Reformed’ Mainstream Health Service: A Model for the Future
By Dr Georgina Phillips, Emergency Physician, St. Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne
Section B: Young People
This Way Home: Supporting Young People into Accommodation
By Leanne Cornell-March, Coordinator Homelessness Programs, Youth Agency,
Service to Youth Council, Inc
Section C: Public Space
“People who are homeless are not social inadequates. They are people without
homes.”
By Jasmine McCormack, Communications Officer and Gary Penfold, Policy Officer,
Queensland Shelter
Section D: Homelessness Research
Homelessness Research and the Green Paper, A Focus on Health
By Gaye Moore, PhD Candidate, University of Melbourne
Section E: Industrial
Homelessness Green Paper: Which Way Home? SAAP Workers Should Not be the
Fall Guy for a Chronically Underfunded Sector
By Julie Kun, ASU Victoria
Section F: Post Release
The Cycle of Homelessness for Ex-Prisoners: Reflections from VACRO Transitional
Workers
By Megan Peacock, Research and Development Unit, Victorian Association for the
Care and Resettlement of Offenders (VACRO)
Section G: Human Rights
Homelessness is a violation of human rights: The Government’s Green Paper
provides an opportunity to address this
By Caroline Adler and Philip Lynch, Manager, PILCH Homeless Persons’ Legal Clinic
and Director, Human Rights Law Resource Centre
Opinion
Listening to the Voices on the Street
The July "Young People at Risk" Edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial: Youth Homelessness in Australia
Prevention and Early Intervention for At-risk Youth: Some Policy Issues
By David MacKenzie, Associate Professor, Institute for Social Research, Swinburne
University
Creating a Solution to a Perennial Problem
By Sue Grigg and Sally Coutts, Managers, The Salvation Army Crisis Services
Not a Last Resort: Transforming Residential Care for Young People in Victoria
By Lothar Wahl, B.Soc.Wk, M.Soc.Wk, Therapeutic Consultant and Manager, The
Salvation Army EastCare Youth Services
Young People Leaving State Care and Homelessness: What Needs to be Done?
By Philip Mendes, Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Work, Monash University
and Guy Johnson, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Australian Housing and Urban
Research Institute, RMIT University
The Green Paper, Social Policy and Youth Homelessness: Fiddling at the Edges
By Christopher Monie, Coordinator, Central Highlands Reconnect
Down the Hard Road: Young People and Their Experiences of Homelessness as
Children
By Debbie Noble-Carr, Tim Moore and Morag McArthur, Institute of Child Protection
Studies, ACU National
Residents at Risk: Youth Homelessness and Marginal Housing
By Dr Andy Marks, Senior Researcher, St Vincent de Paul Society NSW
“What’s the Risk? Supporting Young Women Who Are Street-Based Injecting Drug
Users to Address Risk Factors”
By Christina Sadowski
No Magic Bullet: Safety, long term support, opportunity and self-awareness must
coalesce to facilitate change in at-risk young people
By Alistair Lemmon, Lecturer, Human Services, School of Humanities and Social
Sciences, Charles Sturt University
A Bridge Back Home: Melbourne Gateway Reconnect
By Mandy Baxter, Youth and Family Connections Manager, Melbourne Gateway
Reconnect, Melbourne Citymission
Double Jeopardy
By Amanda Watkinson, Director, Brosnan Youth Services, Jesuit Social Services
Keeping Relation Centred Practice on the Youth Homelessness Agenda
By Amy Carson, Community Development Worker, Family Reconciliation Mediation
Program (FRMP), Melbourne Citymission
Melbourne Citymission’s Response to Young People at Risk and Newly Homeless,
Presenting to Crisis Youth Homelessness Services
By Nada Vindis, Manager, Youth Accommodation and Support Services, Melbourne
Citymission
Mission Australia’s Nightspot Program: An Exercise in Community Capacity Building
By Bridget Coyne, Nightspot National Coordinator, Mission Australia
Double Punishment: Being Released into Homelessness from Lock Up
By Kirsten Sandstrom and Leanne Cornell-March, Youth Justice Services, Service to
Youth Council Inc
JPET the program the works with homeless and at-risk young people that is “at-risk”
By George Mudford, Policy/Projects Officer, Youth Accommodation Association of
NSW
Developing Good Practice: Innovative Health Services for Homeless Youth in
Western Australia
By Katie Culkin, Chief Executive Officer, Community and Youth Training Services
Kings Cross Youth at Risk Project — Successfully working in partnership
By Cindi Petersen, Project Coordinator, Kings Cross Youth at Risk Project
The Young People’s Health Service (YPHS)
By Donna Eade, Youth Clinical Nurse Consultant
Locked Out: The Experience of Homeless Young People Exiting Custody
By Merrin Hollyman and Alex Prentice, Youth Justice Housing Information and
Referral, St Vincent de Paul Housing Services
Overcoming the Barriers
By Claire Edmanson, Young Women’s Outreach Program
Kids Under Cover Bungalow Program: An Effective Early Intervention Program!
By Ross Egleton, Program Manager, Kids Under Cover
Valuing the Role of Youth Homelessness Workers
By Jane Lazzari, Youth Policy Officer, Council to Homeless Persons
Sexual Health Among Homeless Youth: What is the Youthworker’s Role?
By Jackie Davis, Health Educator, HOT Project, Health Promotion Division, Youth
Accommodation Association NSW Inc
Opinion — David Eldridge
Territorial Social Programme Secretary, The Salvation Army, Australia Southern
Territory
The August: Meeting the Needs of the Elderly Homeless Edition of Parity
Editorial
Chapter 1: Framing the Issues
The Older Homeless and Marginally Housed: The Forgotten Group?
By Alan Morris, Bruce Judd and Kay Kavanagh
Not to be Forgotten: The Housing Crisis Facing a Significant Minority of Older People
By Roland Naufal
Time for Older Persons’ Housing Action
By Jeff Fiedler, Tenancy Advice/Policy Worker, Housing for the Aged Action Group
Local Government Program and Policy Partnership Responses to Older people at Risk
of Homelessness
By Melanie Mills, City of Knox, Peter Johnston, City of Darebin, Kate Incerti, City of
Port Phillip and Peter Gunn, City of Maribyrnong
Double Jeopardy: Old Age and Nowhere Secure to Lay Your Head
By Brenton Holmes, Policy Officer. COTA Over 50s Ltd
Seniors Rights Victoria: Working to Stop Abuse of the Elderly
By Caroline Adler, Manager/Principal Lawyer, PILCH Homeless Persons’ Legal Clinic
and Susannah Sage-Jacobson, Pro Bono Manager, Seniors Rights Victoria
Reflections from the Coalface
By Kate Incerti, Social Worker, Housing Information and Support, City of Port Phillip
Chapter 2: Recent Research/Overseas Perspectives
Newly Published Research Findings in Aged Homelessness
The Aged Homeless: A Study Comparing Older and Younger Homeless Persons
By F. Russell Kellogg, M.D, F.A.C.P. and Vashti Bocker, M.P.H., Department of
Community Medicine, St. Vincent’s Hospital, Manhattan
Older Homeless People with Complex Problems and Needs: The British Experience
By Maureen Crane and Tony Warnes, Sheffield Institute for Studies on Ageing,
University of Sheffield, England
Cognitive Impairment in the Elderly Homeless in the Inner-City of Sydney: A
Preliminary Report on a Study in Progress
By Dr Astrid Rogoz, Clinical Research Fellow/Senior Psychiatry Registrar, Brain and
Mind Research Institute, University of Sydney, Clinical Associate Lecturer, University
of Sydney, Dr David Burke, Senior Staff Specialist in Psychogeriatrics, St Vincent’s
Hospital, Sydney, Ms Pearl Price, CNS, Brain and Mind Research Institute, University
of Sydney and Professor Ian Hickie, Director, Brain and Mind Research Institute,
University of Sydney
Chapter 3: Program and Service Responses to Elderly Homelessness
Coming Clean: A New Model of Support for Older People Experiencing Severe
Domestic Squalor
By Susan Graham, Senior Coordinator, Severe Domestic Squalor Project, Catholic
Healthcare Community Services and Clinical Professor John Snowdon
Old Before Their Time: Is Premature Ageing Amongst the Homeless Well
Understood?
By Kate Rice, Program Manager, Community Housing and Support Services, Northern
Region, Wintringham
It’s Not Who You Think: The Client Perspective on Older People Experiencing
Homelessness
By Herbert and Tony — clients, with Susan McDermott, Manager, Homeless and
Housing Support Services, Catholic Healthcare Community Services
Recreation: It’s Personal
By Aaron McCarthy, Recreation Manager, Wintringham
Meeting the Needs of the Elderly Homeless: A Residential Aged Care Perspective
By Wendy Jeskie, General Manager, Catholic Healthcare Residential Aged Care
Predominance of Mental and Physical Health Conditions Amongst the Wintringham
Residents
By Susan Brumen, RN1, Clinical Care Manager, Wintringham
Pathways out of Homelessness: Advocating for and Enabling Change for Older
Members of our Communities
By Susan McDermott, Manager, Homeless and Housing Support Services, Catholic
Healthcare Community Services
Elderly and Homeless in Melbourne: Joe’s Story
By Trish Dalton, Royal District Nursing Service, Homeless Person’s Program and Zoe
Probyn, Access and Equity Project, SVDP Housing Services
Catholic Healthcare Community Services Community Connections Program:
Enhancing the quality of life of older people who have experienced homelessness
By Alan Morris, School of Social Sciences and International Studies, University of
New South Wales
John Finds a Home
By Lynette Lewis, Wintringham Housing and Support Manager, Western Region
Challenges Accessing Appropriate Health, Housing and Welfare Services for Older
Homeless Individuals: Successful Models of Support
By Ruth Melville, Senior Coordinator, Assistance with Care and Housing for the Aged
(ACHA) Program, Catholic Healthcare Community Services
Opinion
Bryan Lipmann, AM
Chief Executive Officer, Wintringham
Janis Redford
General Manager, Catholic Healthcare Community Services
The September "Homelessness and Children" Edition
Contents
Foreword
Bernie Geary OAM, Child Safety Commissioner
Editorial
News
Homelessness 2006
By Chris Chamberlain, RMIT University and David MacKenzie, Swinburne University
Introduction: Homelessness and Children
A Brief Overview
By David Wright-Howie, CHP Policy Officer
Beyond Words
Chapter 1: Framing the Issues
Children in SAAP: Behind the Headline Figures
By Hugh Webb, Supported Accommodation and Crisis Services Unit, Australian
Institute of Health and Welfare
Kids in Crisis
By Dr. Mary Noseda, Crisis Response Co-ordinator and Yvonne Lay, Crisis Support
Advocate, Women’s Domestic Violence Crisis Service (WDVCS)
Homelessness and Children
By Lorrinda Hamilton, Danielle Le Brocq, Renee Griffiths, Miranda Massoud and
Lauren Byrne, HomeGround Services
The Impact of Homelessness on Children
By Karen Glennen, Barwon South West Regional Children’s Resource Program, Colac
Area Health
The Dilemma’s of Working with Accompanying Children within the Homelessness
Service System — What we do now, what we need to do differently
By Naomi McNamara, Merri Outreach Support Service
Care Pathways to Career Homelessness
By Sunitha Raman, Director, Strategic Projects and Karen Scobell, Manager, Sector
Development and Social Policy, Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare
Chapter 2: Some Recent Research
Too Important to Ignore: Children’s Views on Homelessness
By Tim Moore, Morag McArthur and Debbie Noble-Carr, Institute of Child Protection
Studies, ACU National
Children’s Experiences of Homelessness: A New Study
By Deb Keys, University of Melbourne
Proposed Consultation with Children on their Experiences of Homelessness
By Maureen Imeson, Family and Children’s Services Development Officer, City of
Port Phillip
Chapter 3: Service and Practice Responses
Strengthening Young Families
By Ilena Young, Upper Hume Community Health Service, Jen Hunt, Central Hume
Support Service and Kylie Sullivan, Rural Housing Network Ltd
‘BuBs’ on Board: Family Violence and Mother/Infant Work in Women’s Shelters
By Wendy Bunston and Karen Glennen
Way of the Warrior and Wushu Way Martial Arts Program
By Katrina McAuley, North West Regional Children’s Resource Program
Families with Children Living in Caravan Parks
By Graeme Stuart, Family Action Centre, University of Newcastle
Children in Homelessness: A Model that Works
By Melinda Zammit (on behalf of) the Eastern Children’s Resource Program-Resilient
Kids
Service and Practice Responses to Children Experiencing Homelessness: Starting Out
— A Flexible, Holistic Service Response
By Pam Joseph, Program Manager, Starting Out, Connections UnitingCare
Joining the Dots on the Back of the Ladybird: Making Connections Between Sectors
in the Best Interests of Women and Their Children
By Lyn Fletcher and Joanna Bock, Berry Street
Statewide SAAP Childrens Resource Program: Homeless Children’s Wellbeing
Proforma
By Leeanne Nicholson, Grampians SAAP Children’s Resource Program
Opinion
Sandra Milne
Project Manager, Council to Homeless Persons, Sector Engagement – Accreditation
Project
The October "Post Release and Homelessness" Edition
Contents
Foreword
Kelvin Anderson, Corrections Victoria Commissioner
Editorial
Deb Tsorbaris, CEO Council to Homeless Persons
State Premier, Federal Minister, two State Ministers and Therese Rein Attend Launch
of Common Ground Sydney
Introduction: Post Release and Homelessness
By Andrea Lott, Chief Executive Officer, Victorian Association for the Care and
Resettlement of Offenders (VACRO)
Ex-Prisoners and Homelessness: Some Key Issues
By Matthew Willis, Australian Institute of Criminology and Toni Makkai, Australian
National University
Keeping Up with the Expanding Prison Industry Post-Release
By Dr Eileen Baldry, Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences and International
Studies, UNSW
Crime Prevention Starts With a Home
Victorian Department of Justice
Support to Women Exiting Prison Program: Creating Connections and Stability,
Building Self-Esteem and Enhancing Relationships
By Janelle Thomson, Program Coordinator, Supporting Women Exiting Prison
Program, Melbourne Citymission (MCM)
I’m sick of crying, Tired of trying, Yeah I’m smiling… But inside I’m dying
Poem by Melinda Naden
The Community Restorative Centre
By Julia Davis, Community Restorative Centre
Critical Transitions: Housing Risks for Offenders and their Families
By Jenny Malone and Megan Peacock, VACRO Research and Development Unit
Disadvantaged Women
By Sonia Chudiak, Manager, Justice Programs, Melbourne Citymission
Prisoners, Victims and the Act of Giving
By Rob White, School of Sociology and Social Work, University of Tasmania
Women’s Housing Ltd and the Corrections Housing Pathways Initiative: An Overview
By Marg Osborne, Tenancy Administration Worker, Womens Housing Limited
Homelessness Men and Women Exiting Prison in South Australia
By Janice Leafe, State Coordinator, Freshstart Accommodation Services (FAS),
Offenders Aid and Rehabilitation Services of South Australia Inc (OARS SA)
The Women’s Integrated Support Program (WISP)
By Sonia Chudiak, Manager, Justice Programs, Melbourne Citymission
What Happens When My Mum Gets out of Prison and We’ve Got Nowhere to Live?
By Cécile Dutreix, General Manager, Client Services, Offenders Aid and Rehabilitation
Services of SA Inc (OARS SA)
A Post Release Case Study from Tasmania
By Michael Parkinson and Jed Donoghue, Transitional Support Program for ExPrisoners, Tasmania
Prisoners: The Invisible Population
By Emily Piggott, Flat Out Inc
Homeless Persons Legal Clinic at VACRO
By James Farrell, Team Leader and Caroline Adler, Manager and Principal Solicitor,
PILCH Homeless Persons’ Legal Clinic
Opinion
Anne Turley
Chief Executive Officer, Melbourne Citymission
The November "Victorian Homelessness Conference" Edition
Contents
Editorial
Introducing Conference Organiser: Nisha Makan
A Message from the CHP Chair — Michael Perusco
CEO, Sacred Heart Mission and Chair of Council to Homeless Persons
Addressing Homelessness in Victoria: Beyond the Rhetoric, Time for Action
By Deb Tsorbaris, CEO,Council to Homeless Persons
Ending Homelessness: To Plan or Not to Plan
By David MacKenzie, Associate Professor, Institute for Social Research, Swinburne
University of Technology
Reflections on the Victorian Homelessness Strategy
By Netty Horton, General Manager, Community Services, St Vincent de Paul Victoria
Which Housing Crisis is it?
By John Enticott, General Manager, St Kilda Community Housing Ltd
Committing to a Plan of Action: What Can be Learnt from the Victorian
Homelessness Strategy?
By Sue Cripps, CEO, Homelessness NSW
Interview with Jane Barnes: The VHS and Beyond
At a Fork in the Road: Where Will the White Paper Take Us?
The Economic Downturn: How Will our Homelessness Service System Cope?
By Jane Bullen, PhD Student, University of Technology, Sydney
Towards a Homelessness Workforce Strategy
By Janet Jukes, Manager Territorial Social Policy and Resource Unit, The Salvation
Army, Australia Southern Territory
City of Melbourne: Creating Sustainable Pathways out of Homelessness, Looking
Backwards Looking Forwards
By Nanette Mitchell, Senior Social Planner Housing and Homelessness, City of
Melbourne
Homelessness Research: A Consulting Perspective
By John Thomson, Thomson Goodall and Associates
The Beginnings of the Victorian Refuge Movement
By Jacqui Theobald
Case Management for People Experiencing Homelessness: What Makes It Work?
Evidence for Practice
By Hellene Gronda, Project Manager, Australian Housing and Urban Research
Institute
Exploring the Relationship between Alcohol and Other Drugs and Acquired Brain
Injury (AOD/ABI)
By Jo Famularo-Doyle, AOD/ABI Clinician Consultant, Turning Point Alcohol and Drug
Centre, PhD Student, Monash University
A Future Victorian Homeless System
2009
The February "White Paper" Edition of Parity
Contents
Foreword
Tanya Plibersek MP, Minister for Housing and Minister for the Status of Women
Editorial
Housing When? Forum
News
A Green Light for Supportive Housing in Melbourne
Further funding for Wintringham’s Eunice Seddon Home
Chapter 1: Information
The Road Home: A National Approach to Reducing Homelessness — Executive
Summary
Chapter 2: Analysis
Goals and Targets and the National Framework on Homelessness
Outliers and Outcomes
By Dr Andrew Hollows, General Manager Research and Organisational Development,
Hanover Welfare Services and Adjunct Professor, RMIT University
The STATE/us of Early Intervention
By Deb Keys and Shelley Mallett, Research and Social Policy Unit, Melbourne
Citymission
Atypical?: An Analysis of Case Studies in the White Paper
By Naomi Bailey and Guy Johnson, RMIT University
Case Management and The Road Home
By Hellene Gronda*, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
Chapter 3: Commentary
Change is Coming
By Tony Keenan, CEO Hanover Welfare Services
The Australian Government Homelessness White Paper: Bold Targets, Can We
Deliver?
By David Wright-Howie, Senior Policy Officer, Council to Homeless Persons
Social Inclusion: The Glue that Binds
By Sue Cripps, CEO and Digby Hughes, Policy Research Officer, Homelessness NSW
Wintringham’s Response to ‘The Road Home’
By Bryan Lipmann, AM, CEO Wintringham
The Road Home for Young People: Youth Homelessness and ‘Safe Sleeping’
By Sharyn Goudie and Leanne Cornell-March, Service to Youth Council Inc
The White Paper on Homelessness: What Will it Mean for the Victorian Family
Violence Sector?
By Alison Macdonald, Policy Officer, DV Vic
Never for Us, Without Us: Youth Homelessness and ‘Safe Sleeping’
Putting Home to Rights
By Dr Nick Collyer, Tenancy Advice and Advocacy Service, Brisbane Inner-North
A Long Way From Home?
Shake the Ground! A Reflection on the Homelessness White Paper
By Dr John Falzon, Chief Executive Officer, St Vincent de Paul Society
Forgotten Australians Still Searching for ‘The Road Home’
By Cherie Marian
Investing in Results
By Sean Lappin, National Homelessness Advisor, Mission Australia
Workforce Development on Agenda in Homelessness White Paper
By Linda White, Assistant National Secretary, Australian Services Union
‘The Road Home’: For the Historically Forgotten?
By Ludo McFerran, Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse
Let’s Get Serious about Solving Homelessness: Protecting the Human Rights of
People Experiencing Homelessness
By Amy Barry-Macaulay, Lawyer, PILCH Homeless Persons’ Legal Clinic
‘The Road Home’: The View from the Capitals
By Colleen Lazenby City of Melbourne; Liz Giles City of Sydney; Angela Jones
Brisbane City Council; Tom Pavlos City of Perth; Jane Reed Adelaide City Council;
Penny Saile Hobart City Council.
Navigating ‘The Road Home’: The Federal Government’s New Response to
Homelessness
Understanding the Complexity of Causality: The View from Here
By Nick Rushworth, Executive Officer, Brian Injury Australia
Youth Homelessness and ‘The Road Home’: The NYCH Perspective
By Jane Lazzari and George Mudford, National Youth Coalition for Housing (NYCH)
Homelessness: It’s Enough to Make You Sick!
By Theresa Swanborough OAM, Manager, RDNS Homeless Persons Program
The White Paper: Our Opportunity to Get it Right
“But have you read Chapter Six?”
By Dr Ian Winter, Executive Director, Australian Housing and Urban Research
Institute
The White Paper’s Response to Older People Experiencing Homelessness
The White Paper and Chronic Homelessness
Felicity Reynolds, CEO, Mercy Foundation
The Policy ‘no exits into homelessness’ from Hospital
Dr Gaye Moore, Emergency Practice Innovation Centre, Emergency Medicine, St
Vincent’s Health, Melbourne
Roomies Artspace and Seraphina Martin
Opinion
Pamela Foster Chairperson, Homelessness Australia
The March "Early Intervention and Prevention" Edition
Introduction
Noel Murray and Clare Aspinall
Chapter 1: Understanding Early Intervention and Prevention
Youth homelessness Prevention and Early intervention: A brief historical overview of
key frameworks in Australia
By Dr Shelley Mallett, General Manager, Research and Social Policy Unit, Melbourne
Citymission
So, It’s Time for Early Intervention to take Centre Stage?
By Mandy Baxter, Early Intervention Manager (Homelessness), Melbourne
Citymission
Reconnect and Newly Arrived Youth Support Service (NAYSS)
By the Homelessness Taskforce, Department of Families, Housing, Community
Services and Indigenous Affairs
The Complex Case of Young People Leaving State Care
By Naomi Bailey and Guy Johnson, RMIT University
Chapter 2: Policies and Practice
Developing the Practice of Early Intervention into Youth Homelessness
By Phil Crane, Senior Lecturer, Social Work and Human Services, Faculty of Health,
QUT
The Child Protection System and Homelessness Prevention and Early Intervention
Strategies
By Karoline Jamieson, Anglicare WA and Paul Flatau, Murdoch University
Implementing a Population Health Approach: The District Health Board’s Role
By Johanna Reidy and Dr Kirstin Lindberg, Capital and Coast District Health Board
Early Intervention with Refugee and Newly Arrived Young People
By Nadine Liddy, CMY
Chapter 3: Research and Evaluation
Access to Safe and Secure Housing for At Risk and Vulnerable Young People
By Kay Saville-Smith (CRESA), Bev James (Public Policy and Research) and Julie
Warren and Ruth Fraser (CRESA)
Evaluating Early Intervention in Homelessness
By Gill Westhorp, PhD
The Influence of Cognitive Capacity on the Efficacy of Early Intervention and
Prevention Strategies Among Older Homeless
By Alice Rota-Bartelink (PhD), Wintringham
Chapter 4: Programs in Action
It’s Nearly Time to Go: Asset Based Community Development with Transient Caravan
Park Communities
By Graeme Stuart, Dee Brooks, Cherie Stephens, Caravan Project, Family Action
Centre, University of Newcastle
From Theory To Practice.
By Nada Vindis, Senior Manager, Homelessness Accommodation and Support
Services, Melbourne Citymission
Strength Based Homelessness Early Intervention Strategies in a Context of
Discrimination and Economic Crisis
By Rhianon Vichta and Fiona Hunt, Strategy and Resource Development Advisors,
Community Services, Red Cross, Queensland
Homelessness Early Intervention Services: Prevention is Better than Cure
By Mary Anne Paddock, Senior Quality Advisor, Ozcare, Queensland,Tania Coghill,
Coordinator, Ozcare Rockhampton Homeless Early Intervention Program and Phyllis
Yamashita, Co-ordinator, Ozcare Cairns Homeless Early Intervention Program
The Women’s Early Intervention and Prevention Program
By Grace Bennett and Virginia Carey, Women’s Program Workers,Ozanam
Community Centre
Family Reconciliation: Early Intervention or a Timely Response?
By Amy Carson, Team Leader, FRMP, Melbourne Citymission
Collaborative Partnerships for Homelessness Early Intervention
By Deb Spanner, Coordinator Keys to Early Intervention in Homelessness Service
(KEIHS), Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland
Street Football: Where Sport is the Intervention
By Katie Owen and Stephen McLuckie, Street Football Aotearoa
Fastfood Therapy: ‘Finding Solutions’ in a timely way amidst the pace of delivery
By David Crawford, Team Leader, Finding Solutions, Melbourne Citymission
Women In Transition
By Janelle Thomson, Melbourne Citymission, Coordinator SWEP Program and Sonia
Chudiak, Melbourne Citymission, Manager, Justice Programs
Breakthrough Framework Turning Lives Around
By Corie Haddock, the LIFEWISE Centre
Come Together, Right Now
By Alison Cadman, Director, Wellington Housing Trust
Chapter 5: Homelessness in New Zealand and The New Zealand Coalition to End
Homelessness (NZCEH)
Homelessness in Aotearoa: Issues and Recommendations
The New Zealand Coalition to End Homelessness 2007–2012
Opinion
Anne Turley
The April "Renting and Homelessness" Edition
Editorial
News
The Housing Futures for Women Conference
Update from Homelessness Australia
By Simon Smith, Executive Officer
Changes to the Victorian RTA?????
Putting the Proposed Amendment in Context
Call This A Home?
Introduction: Commonwealth Government Programs and Initiatives
Commonwealth Government Initiatives in Affordable Housing
By the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
Chapter I: The Scope of the Issues
Is the Stimulus Boost to National Affordable Housing Agreement (NAHA) the Light
Streaming through the Crack in Everything?
By Adrian Pisarski, Chairperson, National Shelter
“But that could happen to anyone” A Local Government’s Experience of Connecting
the Dots of No Longer Having any Affordable Private Rental Housing
By Kate Incerti, Team Leader Housing and Homelessness Services, City of Port Phillip
A Place to Call Home? Challenges facing people who are homeless in Australia’s 21st
Century Rental Market
By Travis Gilbert, Policy and Research Officer, Homelessness Australia
The Fragile Links between Private Rental Accommodation, Quality of Life and the
Threat of Homelessness for Older People
By Dr Debbie Faulkner, Research Fellow and Deputy Director, Southern Research
Centre, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI), Flinders Institute
for Housing, Urban and Regional Research (FIHURR), Flinders University
Measuring Social Capital Amongst Public Housing Tenants in Inner North Canberra
By Jeremy Boland and Ahmed Nur
Making the Invisible, Visible: The Issue of Housing Affordability for Homeless Women
in New Zealand
By Kate Bukowski
Dual Hardships: The Conjuncture Between Employment and Renting in Japan
By SHIGA, Fumiya
Chapter 2: Policies on the Edge
The Rental (Assistance) Crisis
By Toby Archer, Policy and Liaison Worker, Tenants Union of Victoria
Private Rental as a Supply-side Response to Homelessness
By Craig Johnston, Principal Policy Officer, Shelter NSW
Older People Need a Special Housing Plan
Chapter 3: Playing by the Rules
Marginal Rental Accommodation and the Residential Tenancies Legislation
By Chris Martin, Senior Policy Officer, Tenants’ Union of NSW
Remixing Bradbrook: Tenancy Legislation Reform
By Jed Donoghue
Boarders’ Rights or Homeless Nights
By Peter Mott, Inner North Tenant Advice and Advocacy Service, New Farm,
Queensland
Not at Fault Tenant Evictions Should Always Have a Reason
By Penny Carr, Statewide Co-ordinator, Tenants’ Union of Queensland Inc
Chapter 4: Into and Out of Homelessness
From Homelessness to Renting
By Cassandra Bawden, PESP Member
Interviews
Interviews undertaken by the CHP PESP Program specifically for this edition of Parity.
Private Rental Access Program: Debunking the Myth of the Impossible Private Rental
Market
By Sally Coutts, Manager Research and Program Development, The Salvation Army
Crisis Services, Andrew D’Arcy, Housing Outreach Co-ordinator, HomeGround
Services, Lisa Harris, School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning, RMIT and
Ivana Janicijevic, Private Rental Access Worker, HomeGround Services
Homelessness Early Intervention Programs in the Private Rental Market
By Paul Flatau, Murdoch University and Anna Paris, Ruah Community Services
Preventing Homelessness in the Private Rental Market: NGOs Working Together to
Achieve Positive Outcomes
By Belinda Jones, Anglicare Tasmania and Andrea Witt, Centacare Tasmania
A Street Survey by Shelter WA for Homeless Persons Week August 2008
By Bronwyn Kitching, Executive Officer, Shelter WA
Last Exit to Bowden: SA Mental Health Consumers Need More Bricks, Mortar, Solar
Panels and Supports
By Geoff Harris, Executive Director, Mental Health Coalition of South Australia
Young People’s Road to Private Rental
By Lisa Kosandiak, Sharyn Goudie and Leanne Cornell-March, Service to Youth
Council Inc
“The Landlord, Agent and the Tenant”
By Dianne Noyce, Executive Director, Lisa Lodge
Stories from the Waiting List
By Kathleen Flanagan, Research and Policy Officer, Anglicare Tasmania
Photographs by Adam Quarrell
Opinion
Adrian Pisarski
Chairperson National Shelter
The May "From the Frontline: Industrial and Workforce Issues" Edition of Parity
Editorial
Workforce Issues
David Wright Howie, Acting CEO, Council to Homeless Persons
Supporting Housing Professionals to Tackle Homelessness
The Australasian Housing Institute
News
Towards a New Victorian Homelessness Strategy
By Deb Tsorbaris, Executive Advisor, Homelessness Reform, Policy Strategy and
Communications, Housing and Community Building, Victorian Department of Human
Services
Homelessness Australia May Update
From the Frontline: Industrial and Workforce Issues in the Homelessness and
Community Sectors
Managing the Community Services Workforce: The low wage threat to service
delivery, opportunities and options
By Michael Pegg, Industrial Relations Manager, Jobs Australia Limited
Side Issue? Workforce Development and the White Paper: Developing an effective
workforce strategy in tough economic times
Housing, Homelessness and Family Violence Workforce Challenges: An ASU
Perspective
By Lisa Darmanin, ASU Assistant Branch Secretary and Julie Kun, ASU Industrial
Organiser
The Road Home — Homelessness White Paper Developing a Workforce Strategy —
Where do We Start?
By Wallis Westbrook, Executive Director, Health and Community Services Workforce
Council, Queensland
Workforce Planning Required to Meet Future Growth
By Lam Huynh, Policy and Research division, New South Wales Federation of Housing
Associations
Workforce Development in the Family Violence Sector: If Not Now, When?
By Alison Macdonald, Policy Officer, Domestic Violence Victoria (DV Vic)
The Word from the Frontline (1)
PESP interview of a Housing Information and Referral worker from a rural
homelessness services provider.
The Homeless as Inspiration
By Donna Hinchcliff, Housing New South Wales
Workforce Development in the Homelessness Sector
The Word From the Frontline (2)
CHP PESP Program interview of three frontline homelessness workers
What Kind of Workforce Do Homeless People Deserve?
The NSW Housing and Human Services Accord Supporting Workforce and
Professional Development in the Homelessness and Community Sectors
The Elephant in the Room: Joined Up Services and Workforce Development
By Tony Keenan, Chief Executive Officer, Hanover Welfare Services
Human Services: A Shared and Important Responsibility
By Jeremy Boland
Human Services Workforce Study Nears Completion
Opinion
Linda White, Assistant National Secretary, Australian Services Union
The June "Boarding and Rooming Houses" Edition of Parity
Minister’s Foreword and Editorial
A View From Within the Coroners Court:
The Need for Effective Rooming House Regulation
By Alyena Mohummadally, Policy Solicitor, Tenants Union of Victoria
An Interview with Claire Noone, Executive Director, Consumer Affairs Victoria
The Yarra Community Housing Cluster Model
Boarding Houses in Melbourne: A Twentieth Century History
By Seamus O’Hanlon, School of Historical Studies, Monash University
Homelessness Australia June Update
Keeping on With Small Battles or Time for a Revolution?:
Providing Primary Health Care to Residents of Rooming Houses
By Dorothy Campbell, Community Nurse, Homeless Persons Program, Royal District
Nursing Service
Violence Against Women in Mixed-Gender Rooming Houses
Challenges to Ensuring the Victorian Legislative and Regulatory Framework Protects
the Rights and Interests of Rooming House Residents: A Local Government
Perspective
By Kate Incerti, Team Leader, Housing and Homelessness, the City of Port Phillip
Tenancy and the Family Violence Protection Act 2008 (Vic)
An Interview with a Rooming House Resident; Melbourne, Victoria
An Interview with Daniel Clements, Northern Housing Manager, HomeGround
Services
Same Same, but Different
By Peter Mott, Tenant Advocate, Inner North TAAS, New Farm Neighbourhood
Centre
The Historic Role of Boarding Houses in Relation to Homelessness in Inner Brisbane
By Gary Penfold, Policy Officer, Queensland Shelter
Doorways
Voices from the inner Brisbane boarding house community
BHAG of Support
By Leigh Connell, Boarding House Project Manager, Newtown Neighbourhood Centre
and Carolyn Frost, Crystal Street Op Shop, Baptist Community Services
Inaccurate Stereotypes and Campaign Misdirection
By Janet Goodwin, ManagerSouth Port Community Housing Group (SPCHG)
On behalf of Committee of Management and staff of South Port Community Housing
Group
Rooming Accommodation Rights in Queensland: Still Big Gaps
By Penny Carr, Statewide Coordinator, Tenants’ Union of Queensland (TUQ)
God-awful in Godzone: Boarding Houses in Aotearoa/New Zealand
By Kate Amore, Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington
A Model for Housing Focussed Outreach Support
By Louise Shanahan, HFO Worker, Crisis Services and
Sally Coutts Research and Program Development Manager, Crisis Services
Backpackers and Student Accommodation: Enforcement of
Prescribed Accommodation in the City of Glen Eira*
By John Bordignon, Manager Civic Compliance and Municipal Building Surveyor
A Short History of Today’s Rooming Houses
“There is light at the end of the tunnel”
By Tojo Voisey
Service System Development: Is It Ground Zero
By Theresa Swanborough OAM, Manager RDNS Homeless Persons Program
Rooming Houses are NOT Adequate Houses
By Caroline Adler and Amy Barry-Macaulay, Manager/Principal Lawyer and Lawyer,
PILCH Homeless Persons’ Legal Clinic
The Victorian Government’s Rooming Houses Reform Agenda
By Rocco Fonzi, Acting Manager, Housing Policy and InnovationsOffice of Housing,
Department of Human Services Victoria
Improving the Rooming House Sector Together
Consumer Affairs Victoria Conference Report
Coalition for Appropriate Supported Accommodation (CASA):
A Meeting of Minds and a Force for Change
By Myree Harris RSJ, Convener of CASAMental Health Advisor,
National Council of the St Vincent de Paul Society
What the HEF is going on?
By Rachel Findeis, Housing Outreach Worker, HomeGround Services and
Sarah Joyce, Housing Support Worker, City of Port Phillip
Five Years of Change in Crisis Housing
By Kylie Moore, Intake Coordinator, HomeGround Services
A New Worker’s Perspective
Peter O’Hare, Housing and Information Referral Worker, HomeGround Services
Call this a Home? Campaign for Safe Rooming Houses in Victoria
Campaign Update: June 2009
The July "Education and Homeless" Edition of Parity
Editorial: Homelessness and Education
David Wright-Howie, Acting CEO, CHP
NEWS
Journey to Social Inclusion (J2SI)
By Michael Perusco and Sue Grigg
Homelessness Australia July Update
Boarding and Rooming Houses in Focus
FEATURE: EDUCATION AND HOMELESSNESS
An Integrated Approach to Education Equity for Homeless Students: The Policy
Opportunities Moving Forward
By Lauren Matthews, Policy Analyst, Victorian Council of Social Service
Homelessness Amongst Affluence: Homeless and at Risk Young People in Banyule
and Nillumbik
By Chris Halacas, Project Worker, Banyule/Nillumbik Youth Accommodation Project,
Nillumbik Community Health Service
The Pavilion School: Under One Roof
By Brendan Murray, Coordinator, the Pavilion, Banksia, La Trobe Secondary College
“Early intervention is critical to maintaining education and preventing homelessness”
By Christina Portelli and Belinda Kane, Crossroads Reconnect
Education and Homelessness, Homelessness and Education: Every Person’s Story is
Important
Schools Can’t Do It Alone
By Rosalyn Black and Dr Lucas Walsh, the Foundation for Young Australians
Education and Training: Embracing Other World Views
By Cate Jones, Project Officer, Shelter South Australia
Transition, Education and Homelessness
By Leigh Woolcock, Program Manager, Supporting Homeless Individuals and Families
in Transition (SHIFT), Connections UnitingCare
Breaking the Barriers: Education and Training Needs of Adults Experiencing
Homelessness
By Erica Flentje, Manager Business and Organisational Development, Hanover
Welfare Services
Homelessness, Impoverished Language and Educational Engagement: What’s the
Link?
By Linda Davis, Project Coordinator Education Pilot, Hanover Welfare Services
Louise Place and St Joseph’s High School, South Australia
By Vicki Lachlan and Margaret Speechley, Louise Place, Domestic Violence
and Homelessness Services, Centacare Catholic Family Services
Setting the Wheels in Motion: Pre-employment and life skills training for young
people experiencing homelessness
By Steve Maillet, Manager, Community and Employment Initiatives and Lisa O’Brien,
Team Leader, Step Ahead, Melbourne Citymission
Do Schools have a Role in Addressing Homelessness?
By Marilyn Webster, Manager Social Policy and Research Good Shepherd Youth and
Family Service and Linda Hammond, Bridge Program Worker
Education for a Fairer Victoria
By Andrew Nette, Senior Research and Policy Officer, Jesuit Social Services
Opinion —
Tony Keenan, CEO Hanover Welfare Services
The August "Homeless Voices" Edition of Parity
Editorial
Homeless Voices, The Perspectives of People who are Homeless
By David Wright-Howie, Acting CEO, CHP
News
Building the Jigsaw: Progress on the New Victorian Homelessness Strategy
Homelessness Implementation Plans: Early Trends and Challenges
By Sarah Spiller, Policy and Communications, Homelessness Australia
Homelessness Australia: August Update
Homeless Voices — Introduction
Confronting Perspectives of People who are Homeless
Chapter 1: Giving Voice: Speaking of Homelessness
‘What will I need when I become homeless?’
By Jon Kroschel
“Someone else might come along and I might be able to help them, other people, to
learn to read.”
By Geoffrey Odgers, Welfare Team Leader, Edward Eagar Lodge, Sydney
An Interview with Adrian
By Reece McHale, Outreach Support Worker, HomeGround Services
Street Care Launch
Written Collaboratively by Members of Street Care
Homeless Not Hopeless: The Role of Homeless People in Service Delivery
By Adrian and Kerrie, from Street Care
Falling on Deaf Ears: A Consumer’s Perspective of Being Heard in the Homelessness
Sector
By Claire
Chapter 2: Making Representations
Service User Perspectives: Representations, Rhetoric and Realities
By Dr Carole Zufferey, Lecturer, School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy
Homelessness and Identity/Difference Processes
Chapter 3: In Consultation
Solving Homelessness: What People Experiencing Homelessness Think Should be
Done
By Deb Batterham, Researcher, Research and Organisational Development, Hanover
Welfare Services
Homeless Voices: The Perspective of People who are Homeless
By Cathy Humphrey, General Manager Client Services, Sacred Heart Mission
Putting Clients at the Heart of Service Development
By Livia Carusi, Project Officer and Anne Tuohey, Research and Policy Coordinator, St
Vincent de Paul Aged Care and Community Services
Put a Bit of Thought Into It! Creatively Engaging Homeless People in Advocacy and
Law Reform
By Chris Hartley, Policy Officer, Homeless Persons’ Legal Service, NSW
Chapter 4: Finding Research
In Response To: ‘whose purpose and whose interests are truly being served by this
research?’
By Elizabeth Trickett, PhD candidate, University of South Australia
Narrative Advocacy: Connecting the World of Policy and Research
By Naomi Bailey, Research Officer, AHURI-RMIT Research Centre
Including Homeless Voices in Research: The City of Melbourne Experience
By Nanette Mitchell, Senior Social Planner Housing and Homelessness, City of
Melbourne and Ruth Gordon, Principal Consultant, Resolve Community Consulting
Representations About, and Voices from, People who are Homeless
By Cameron Parsell, School of Social Work and Applied Human Sciences, University
of Queensland
Homeless Voices in Homelessness Research
By the CHP Peer Education Support Program
Chapter 5: Creative Beings
Australian First
By Carolyn Wilson, Better World Arts
Glass Flowers: The Ozanam Community Centre Music Programs
By Steve Boyd, Music Therapy Program Consultant, Ozanam Community Centre
Opinion
Netty Horton General Manager, St Vincent de Paul Aged Care and Community
Services, Victoria
Trying to get rid of tokenism and confronting the challenge of consumer
participation
The September "Youth Homelessness Conferences" Edition of Parity
CONTENTS
Forewords
The Hon Tanya Plibersek MP
Minister for Housing and the Minister for the Status of Women
The Hon Richard Wynne MP
Minister for Local Government and Housing
David Borger MP
Minister for Housing, Minister for Western Sydney, Minister Assisting the Minister
for Transport
Editorials
NSW Editorial — Youth Homelessness Matters…
By Michael Coffey, CEO YAA
Victorian Editorial
David Wright-Howie, Acting CEO CHP
News
An Avoidable Tragedy: The Deaths of Leigh and Christopher: Will the Findings and
Recommendations Effect Change?
September Update, Homelessness Australia
Towards New Homelessness Legislation
By Trish Westmore, Acting Policy and Project Officer, Council to Homeless Persons
Homelessness Legislation: Whose Needs are We Trying to Meet?
By Maria Leebeek, Executive Officer, Queensland Youth Housing Coalition Inc
Chapter 1: Youth Homelessness in Context
Four Aspects of Youth Homelessness
By Guy Johnson, Research Fellow, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute,
RMIT University
Youth Homelessness and Early intervention: Key Characteristics and Challenges
By Dr Phil Crane, Social Work and Human Services, Faculty of Health, Queensland
University of Technology
Youth Homelessness Matters: Postcards from the USA
By Michael Coffey, CEO YAA
Defining the Spectrum of Youth Housing (...a U.S. perspective)
The National Partnership Agreement on Homelessness: Providing Opportunities and
Outcomes for Homeless Young People at Risk
By Alison Fraser, Sally Elizabeth and Clair Wheeler, Housing and Community Building,
Office of Housing
Galbraith and Keynes are the New Black. Can the Superman State Rescue Our
Homeless Young People (and maybe even our planet)?
By Alistair Lemmon, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Charles Sturt
University
The Victorian Youth Homelessness Action Plan, Stages 1 and 2, 2002–2010: A Short
History
By Jane Lazzari, Youth Policy Officer, Council to Homeless Persons
Bail Me Out, Research Report on Detention and Homelessness
By Brenda Bailey, Senior Policy Officer, Public Interest Advocacy Centre
Responding to Young Homeless People with a Mental Illness
By David Keegan
Education, Employment and Training for Young People Experiencing Homelessness:
Outcome Dimensions
By Associate Professor Marty Grace, Victoria University, Dr Hellene Gronda, AHURI
and Ms Louise Coventry, Consultant
Chapter 2: Youth Voices
Youth Homelessness Forum
By the NSW Youth Advisory Council
Three Voices
By Cassandra Bawden, PESP Project Worker, CHP Homelessness Advocacy Service
Insights on the Lives of Homeless Young People
By Susie Scherf, Kathryn Di Nicola and Anne Hampshire, Mission Australia
Chapter 3: Young, Pregnant and Parenting
Young, Pregnant and Parenting: Challenges Working with Single Homeless Women
By Kim Gallagher, Young Women’s Outreach Program, The Salvation Army Crisis
Services
Parenting Young: “Homelessness and Babes in Arms” The Young Pregnant and
Parenting Program (YAPP)
By Mandy Baxter, Early Intervention Manager, Youth & Family, Melbourne
Citymission
Young, Pregnant and Homeless: In Need of a Co-ordinated Response
By Julie Fry, Royal District Nursing Service Homeless Persons Program
Chapter 4: Youth Work(ers)
‘Please sir, I want some more’: Securing Better Pay and Conditions for Youth
Workers in Australia
By Michael Emslie, Lecturer in Youth Work, School of Global Studies, Social Science
and Planning RMIT University
Youth Workers, Organising and Working for the Future
By Leanne Nicholson, Chair, Youth Workers Association, Development Committee
Chapter 5: Some Innovative Models of Service Delivery and Practice
Effective Partnership Models for Young People Entering the Homelessness Service
System in Victoria
ICMS: Outside the Square
By Julie Wilson and Cathy McQuilken, Crossroads Youth and Family Services,
Melbourne
The Need is Still There: The Story of Youth Early Intervention Pilot Project
By Carmen Bekker, Executive Officer, Taldumande Youth Services
Housing Makes the Difference
By Kylie Smith, Youth Housing Worker, Mallee Accommodation and Support Program
Early Intervention: Reconnecting in Rural Communities
By Pat Fogarty, Manager and Viv King, Reconnect Team Leader, Vinnies Services,
Deniliquin
Opinion
David MacKenzie
Associate Professor, Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University
The October "Responding to Homelessness in NSW" Edition of Parity
Foreword
Responding to Homelessness in NSW
By The Hon Nathan Rees, Premier NSW
News
October Update, Homelessness Australia
Victorian Homelessness 2020 Strategy Discussion Paper
Wouldn’t You Like to Know? Specialist Homelessness Services and the NAHA
Feature: Responding to Homelessness in New South Wales
Introduction
The NSW Homelessness Action Plan
By David Borger, NSW Minister for Housing
Chapter 1: The Policy Framework
Action Not Reaction: Steps to Solving Homelessness
By Sue Cripps, Executive Officer, Homelessness NSW
The NSW Homelessness Action Plan: Reforming the service system together to
achieve better outcomes for people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness
By Maura Boland, Executive Director, Policy and Strategy, Housing NSW
Changing Paradigms? Implementing the NSW Homelessness Action Plan
By Jane Bullen
Chapter 2: Putting Policy into Practice
Homelessness Partnerships Revisited
By Anthony Shannon, Acting Manager SAAP Strategy NSW Community Services and
Adrian Foon, Acting Senior Project Officer SAAP Strategy NSW Community Services
Allawah Aboriginal Dual Diagnosis Housing and Support Pilot Project
By Trish Connolly, Acting/Principal Policy Officer, Homelessness Unit, Housing NSW
This Way Home: Breaking the Cycle of Homelessness in Newcastle
Temporary Accommodation Partnership in Inner City Sydney
The Housing and Accommodation Support Initiative
By Catriona McDonnell, Homelessness Unit, Housing NSW and Shannon Gooley,
Prevention and Community Partnerships, NSW Health
The Homelessness Intervention Team
By Kay Elson, CEO, Haymarket Foundation and Anthony Stralow, Senior Project
Officer, SAAP Strategy Unit, Policy and Planning, Department of Community Services
Chapter 3: The Action Plan, Where to from Here?
The Next Chapter
By Tim Marchant, Senior Research and Projects Officer, Mission Australia
Prevention and Early Intervention for Homelessness Driven by Domestic and Family
Violence
By Cat Gander and Taryn Champion, NSW Women’s Refuge Movement Resource
Centre
Responding to the Health and Well-being Needs of Homeless and Marginalised
Young People in NSW: Where are We Going?
By Emma Marshall, Executive Officer, NSW Association for Adolescent Health and
Anthony Stralow, President, NSW Association for Adolescent Health
A Role for Local Government in Efforts to End Homelessness
By Liz Giles, Manager Homelessness Unit, City of Sydney
Protecting Our Future: Homeless Young People in NSW
By Veronica
The Violence Behind Homelessness
By Stephen Kilkeary
Living, Learning and Earning: Re-imagining Foyers in the Australian Context
By Michael Coffey, CEO, Youth Accommodation Association of NSW
A Way Home for Homeless Health
By Stephen F Wilson, Population Health, St Vincent’s Hospital Darlinghurst
Having a Voice and Making a Difference! Regional Replication of Street Care
By Chris Hartley
The Role of Peaks in Developing the Action Plan
By Digby Hughes, Policy and Research Officer, Homelessness NSW
Local Government and Homelessness: The Example of Parramatta
By Maggie Kyle, Community Capacity Building Team, Parramatta City Council
Integration of Key Domestic and Family Violence Reforms
By Cat Gander and Taryn Champion, NSW Women’s Refuge Movement Resource
Centre
Positive Lifestyle Programs
By Major David Knight, The Salvation Army, Assistant Legal Secretary and
Coordinator Positive Lifestyle Programs
Chapter 4: New Directions for Housing Action
Temporary Accommodation: Less is More
By Katie Florance, Policy Officer (Research and Publications), Shelter NSW
Houselessness Actually: Evidence for Housing First
Empowering a Region to End Homelessness: A Collaborative Reform Model from the
Nepean
By Stephanie Brennan, Convenor, Nepean Campaign Against Homelessness
Breaking the Cycle
By Ruth Melville, Senior Coordinator, Homeless Services, Mercy Arms, Catholic
Community Services
Sustainable Tenancy Through Early Intervention, Advocacy and Ongoing Monitoring
of Risk
By Wendy Gillett, Bernadette King and Bettan Todd, Catholic Community Services,
Ms Rose McMaster, Dr Rhonda Hawley, Ms Therese Fletcher and Professor Sandy
Middleton, National Centre for Clinical Outcomes Research (NaCCOR) Nursing and
Midwifery, Australian Catholic University National
Chapter 5: Researching the Issues
Possible Future Directions for Homelessness Research in NSW
By Dr Hellene Gronda, Director, AHURI Research Synthesis Service
Making the Link
By Eileen Baldry, University of NSW
Poor Living Conditions in North Sydney
By Chris Taylor, Community Development Officer, North Sydney Council and Jed
Donoghue, Manager, Salvation Army Housing and Homelessness Section, Hobart
Chapter 6: Understanding Some Key Issues
Compounding Disadvantage: Cognitive Disability and Homelessness
By Christopher Dyer, Rory Brooks and Ben Fogarty, the Intellectual Disability Rights
Service (IDRS)
At Risk of Homelessness: Female, Single and Ageing
Turning off the Tap and Cutting Recidivism Through Primary Health Care
From the perspective of a previously homeless person
Opinion
Rhonda Gregory
Chair, Homelessness NSW
The November "Rethinking Domestic Violence and Homelessness" Edition of Parity
News
Responding to “Issues in Estimating the Number of Homeless in Australia: A paper to
inform a review of Counting the Homeless methodology”
Homelessness Australia: November Update
Towards a Homelessness 2020 Strategy
By Claire Nyblom and Marian Pettit, Homelessness Taskforce, Housing and
Community Building, Victorian Department of Human Services
Feature:
Chapter 1: Historical Context
Women Domestic Violence and Homelessness
By Cate Nunan
Domestic Violence and Homelessness: Notes on the Policy Road So Far
By Jane Bullen
Constructing a Feminist Issue: Domestic Violence and the Victorian Refuge
Movement
By Jacqui Theobald
In the Beginning
Chapter 2: Framing the Policy Imperatives
Homelessness and Violence against Women in Australia: The Road Home or Blind
Alleys?
By Julie Oberin, National Chair, WESNET (Women’s Services Network)
Towards a Paradigm Shift: Spanning the Divide
By Alison Macdonald, Policy Officer, DV Vic
Policy and Gender: The Need for a Gendered Policy
By Vig Geddes, Executive Officer, Domestic Violence Resource Centre Victoria
(DVRCV)
The Challenges of Integrating Domestic Violence in a Homeless Policy Framework
By Catherine Gander, Executive Officer, NSW Women’s Refuge Movement and NSW
WESNET Representative and Taryn Champion, Project and Policy Officer, NSW
Women’s Refuge Movement
Chapter 3: Opening up the Framework for Discussion: Key Issues
Homelessness and Family Violence, Law and Policy Nearly One Year After the
Introduction of the Family Violence Protection Act 2008
Recognising Sexual Assault
By Dr Zoë Morrison, Senior Manager, Research and Policy Centre, Brotherhood of St
Laurence
Outside Glass Houses: The Legal Needs of Women at Risk of Homelessness Escaping
Family Violence
By Caris Cadd, Solicitor and James Farrell, Manager and Principal Solicitor, PILCH
Homeless Persons’ Legal Clinic
Living a Sheltered Life: Victims of Violence Isolated and Abused Who Seek Shelter for
Their Children
By Christina M. Dalpiaz, M.S., C.A.C. II
Chapter 4: Where Does the Research Take Us?
Women, Domestic and Family Violence and Homelessness: Putting Housing Back in
the Equation
By Dr Selina Tually, Dr Debbie Faulkner, Mrs Cecile Cutler and Associate Professor
Michele Slatter, Flinders Institute for Housing, Urban and Regional Environments,
Flinders University
Falling Through the Gaps: Domestic Violence and Homelessness
Responding to Family Violence and Preventing Homelessness: What is Required for
Effective Implementation of ‘Safe at Home’ Programs?
By Karen Crinall, PhD, SAFER Project, Monash University and Jenny Hurley, PhD,
SAFER Project, Monash University
Chapter 5: New Directions From and In Service Delivery
Service Targeting for DV: The Need for a Much Broader Understanding of Housing
and Violence
Dr Andrea Sharam, Partnerships, Policy and Projects Officer, Community Housing
Federation of Victoria
Improved Integration between Homelessness and Domestic Violence Services: One
Model of Service Delivery
By Sally Coutts (Research and Program Development), The Salvation Army Crisis
Services
Best Practice Family Violence Services for Aboriginal Women: Nunga Mi:Minar
Incorporated
By Rosney Snell BA MBA, CEO, Nunga Mi:Minar and Christine Small BA Project
Officer
Rethinking the Place of Children in the Nexus Between Domestic Violence and
Homelessness
By Halime Aldemir, North West Childrens Resource Coordinator, on behalf of the
Victorian Statewide Childrens Resource coordinators
Strengthening Accountability: Case Management for Men who Use Family Violence
By Janelle Cribb, Alison Fraser and Marita Nyhuis, Housing Support Services, Housing
Sector Development, Victorian Department of Human Services
Chapter 6: Voices That Have to Be Heard
Homelessness and Domestic Violence
By Cassandra Bawden, CHP PESP Project worker
Domestic Violence and Homelessness
By Lorraine Heaven
Surviving Domestic Violence: My Story
By a CHP, HAS, PESP Member
Opinion
Fiona McCormack
CEO Domestic Violence Victoria
2010
The February 2010:ABI and Homelessness" Edition of Parity
Vale Tim Matheson
Editorial
Michelle Burrell, CEO, Council to Homeless Persons
NEWS
Introducing Michelle Burrell, the new CEO of CHP
February Update: Homelessness Australia
Many Ways Home — Towards Ending Homelessness by 2020
Homelessness Australia’s 6th National Homelessness Conference
FEATURE: ABI and Homelessness
What is an ABI?
By Rachel Merton, Chief Executive Officer, Brain Injury Association of NSW Inc
Nowhere to Go: What the Literature tells us About Acquired Brain Injury and
Homelessness
By Monique Lucas, Case Manager, Statewide ABI Case Management Service,
Melbourne Citymission
Homeless Adults Living with Acquired Brain Injuries
By Alice Rota-Bartelink, Research Manger, Wintringham
Everybody Knows
By Nick Rushworth, Executive Officer, Brain Injury Australia
Working with People with an ABI: Looking Beyond the “Challenging”
By Rachel Merton, Chief Executive Officer, Brain Injury Association of NSW Inc
Hidden Homelessness: Supported Residential Services as a Default Option for
Individuals with an ABI
By Lucy Knox, Monique Lucas and Tom Worsnop, ABI Services Unit, Melbourne
Citymission
Cycles of Institutionalisation
By Joseph Connellan
Homelessness, Acquired Brain Injury and Corrections Victoria
By Jo Famularo-Doyle, ABI Clinician, Corrections Victoria, PhD Student Monash
University
An Interview with Andy
By Allan Martin, Peer Education Support Program member
An Interview with Dot Campbell
By Cassandra Bawden, CHP Homelessness Advocacy Service’s Peer Education
Support Program’s Project worker
Tertiary Homelessness: Case Studies into the Hidden Homeless?
By Antoinette Bogg, Philip McCrory and Peter McGrath, Melbourne Citymission ABI
Statewide Case Management Service
What Needs to be Done to Prevent Those with an ABI Becoming Homeless?
By Rachel Behn
Opinion – Tom Worsnop
Manager, Acquired Brain Injury Services, Melbourne Citymission
The March "What's Next" The White Paper 12 Months On Edition of Parity
Foreword
By The Hon Tanya Plibersek MP, Minister for Housing, Minister for the Status of
Women
Editorial
By Michelle Burrell, CEO, Council to Homeless Persons
News
March Update, Homelessness Australia (HA)
Elizabeth St Common Ground Commences Tenant Intake: 235 Referrals in 4 Days
Feature: “What’s Next?” The White Paper 12 Months On
Australian Government Initiatives
By the Australian Government Department of Families, Housing, Community Services
and Indigenous Affairs, Homelessness Branch
Centrelink’s Role in Responding to Homelessness
By Peter Humphries, Deputy National Manager, Social Work Services, Centrelink
How is the Personal Helpers and Mentors (PHaMs) Program helping the homeless?
and Indigenous Affairs, Mental Health and Autism Branch
More Emergency Relief and Commonwealth Financial Counselling to Support People
who are Homeless or at Risk of Homelessness
and Indigenous Affairs, Money Management Branch
A National Quality Framework for Services to People Experiencing and at Risk of
Homelessness
The White Paper: What’s Next?
Can We Reach the 2013 Target?
By Chris Chamberlain, Professor of Applied Social Research, RMIT University
Gathering Around the Table: Challenges to the Successful Implementation of the
White Paper
What is to be Done? The White Paper 12 Months On
By Adrian Pisarski, Chairperson, National Shelter
The White Paper: One Year On
Oh ACHA, ACHA! Wherefore art thou ACHA!
Governments’ Commitment to Consumer Participation: All Care, No (financial)
Responsibility
By Chris Hartley, Policy Officer, Homeless Persons’ Legal Service (NSW) and James
Farrell, Manager/Principal Lawyer, PILCH Homeless Persons’ Legal Clinic (Vic)
Australia’s Homeless Act
By James Farrell, Manager/Principal Lawyer, PILCH Homeless Persons’ Legal Clinic
and Caris Cadd, Secondee Lawyer, PILCH Homeless Persons’ Legal Clinic
Young Homeless Get a Voice
By Veronica Penna
Hitting our Targets: Leadership in Implementation Will Ensure Success
A Crisis With a Crisis Issue led to Focus and Solutions in Hornsby
By Judy Hopwood MP, State Member for Hornsby
The Ageing Elephant in the Room
On the Road to Nowhere?
By Cassandra Bawden,CHP PESP Project Worker
Counting Homelessness: Policy Based on What we Know?
By Ludo McFerran, Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse and
Older Women’s Network NSW
Increasing Engagement With, Investment In, and Visibility of Domestic Violence
Related Homelessness Services
WESNET Representative and Taryn Champion, Project and Policy Officer, NSW
Women’s Refuge Movement
Towards Equal Outcomes: Building on the Best of the Implementation Activities
Occurring Across Australia
By Prue Burns, Senior Research and Projects Officer, Mission Australia, Sean Lappin,
National Homelessness Advisor, Mission Australia and Anne Hampshire, National
Manager, Research and Social Policy, Mission Australia
Social Inclusion and Housing Allocation: Policy and Practice Tensions
By Chris Talbot, Executive Manager, Research and Development UnitingCare Wesley
Adelaide, Jo Baulderstone and Loretta Geuenich, Flinders University
There is Still a Need for Affordable Supported Housing
By Jed Donoghue, the Salvation Army (Tasmania), Manager Housing and Homeless
Services
Secondary Homelessness Services?: What Will be the Role of Existing Services Under
the New Approach?
Early Intervention and the States: A Deliberately Provocative Viewpoint
By Christopher Monie, Family Worker, Reconnect, Lisa Lodge
National Roundup
Sector and Government Collaboration on The Road Home in Queensland
By Jill Lang,Director QCOSS
The Northern Territory
By Louise Weber, NT Shelter
Tasmania
By Anita van Riet, Shelter Tasmania
White Paper 12 Months On: The Focus on Youth in Victoria
By Jane Lazzari, CHP Youth Policy Officer
Homelessness National Partnership The Implementation Plan for South Australia,
July 2009–June 2013
By Cécile Dutreix, Homelessness SA
Homelessness Policy Development and Implementation: Working Within a Regional
Framework
By Katherine McKernan, Housing NSW
Western Australia
By Gerhard Rousseau, Community Housing Coalition of WA
A New Assertive Outreach Service for the Inner City of Sydney
By Trish Connolly Acting/Principal Policy Officer, Homelessness Unit, Housing NSW
and Liz Giles, Manager, Homelessness Unit, City of Sydney
Opinion
Narelle Clay,
Chair, Homelessness Australia
The April"Out of Sight, Young People, the Hidden Homeless" Edition of Parity
Guest Editorial
Michael Coffey, YAA CEO and NYCH Co-Chair
NEWS
What About Me?
Homelessness Australia (HA) April Update
By Simon Smith, (Departing) Executive Officer, Homelessness Australia
National Youth Coalition for Housing
Youth Homelessness Matters Day 2010
FEATURE:
“Out of Sight” Young People, the Hidden Homeless
We Need a ‘Spectrum’ of Housing and Support for All Young People at Risk of or
Experiencing Homelessness
By Michael Coffey, Co-Chair NYCH and CEO YAA
Looking Backwards, Moving Forward: Implications for Policy of a Longitudinal Study
on Youth Homelessness
By Dr Shelley Mallett, General Manager Research and Service Development, Hanover
Welfare Services
Fighting for all Young People Without a Home
By Veronica Penna
Responding to the Needs of Same Sex Attracted, Transgender and Intersex (SSATI)
Young People in Homelessness and Housing Services
By Fiona Murray, Family Access Network
Jake’s Story
By Housing Support Service, Outer Western Municipality, Victoria
A Place to Live: Invisible Homelessness and the Experience of Young People from
Refugee and Migrant Backgrounds
By the Centre for Multicultural Youth
My Least Favourite Room: Young People and Rooming Houses in Victoria
Jane Lazzari, Youth Policy Officer, Council to Homeless Persons
Models, Specialist Services, Mainstream Services, and Are We on the Right Track?
By Narelle Clay, AM, Southern Youth and Family Services, NSW.
‘Hybrid Foyers’: A 21st Century Response to Youth Homelessness Accommodation?
By Dr. Susan Oakley and Dr. Janette Hancock, Service to Youth Council Inc
Hidden Within a Hidden Population: Unaccompanied Children in Homelessness
Services
By George Mudford, Youth Accommodation Association
Student Homelessness Hidden in North-East Melbourne
By Cheryle Michael, Youth Planning and Policy Officer, Banyule City Council
The Wilum Youth Drug and Alcohol Supported Accommodation Program
By Christa Grapentin, Manager, YSASS Wilum Supported Accommodation Program
HYPA Housing: Helping the Hidden Homeless
By Lisa Kosandiak, Service to Youth Council Inc
On the Outside Looking In: An interview with a young person who has experienced
homelessness
By Cassandra Bawden, CHP PESP Project Worker
Are We Teaching Children and Young People in State Care to be Homeless?
By Amanda Shaw, Senior Advocate, Office of the Guardian for Children and Young
People,South Australia
OPINION
Dr Shelley Mallett
General Manager, Research and Service Development, Hanover Welfare Services
The May "Social Inclusion and Homelessness" Edition
Foreword – Tanya Plibersek
Editorial
News
Social Inclusion: Getting it; Right(s)
Community Sector Workers Turn Out in Force for Equal Pay
By Julie Kun, ASU Organiser, ASU Victorian Authorities and Services Branch
Homelessness Australia Update
By Travis Gilbert, Acting Chief Executive Officer, Homelessness Australia
Chapter 1: Australian Government Initiatives
A Stronger, Fairer Australia: The National Statement on Social Inclusion
and Indigenous Affairs, Strategic Policy Branch
The Australian Social Inclusion Board
Social Inclusion in Australia: How Australia is Faring
Conferring on Social Inclusion: The January 2010 Australian Government Social
Inclusion Conference in Melbourne
By Dr Maria Degabriele, Policy Manager, St Vincent de Paul Society NSW
Chapter 2: Getting the Framework Right
Social Inclusion and Homelessness: Including the Already Excluded
By Anne Pate and Emma Cull, Melbourne Citymission Research and Social Policy Unit
Homelessness and Social Inclusion: Bringing Them in From the Margins
How to Exclude Without Really Trying
By Kasy Chambers, Executive Director, Anglicare Australia
Social Inclusion is Not a Fad but a More Meaningful Way Forward
By Tony Barnett, Policy and Research Manager, Brotherhood of St Laurence
The Economics of Inclusion 23
Homelessness and Social Inclusion
By Jo Fildes and Sean Lappin, Mission Australia
The Role of Home and Place in Social Inclusion: Expanding the Agenda
By Kath Hulse and Angela Spinney, Institute for Social Research, Swinburne
University of Technology, Melbourne
Chapter 3: State Governments: Applying the Framework
Social Inclusion and Homelessness: A South Australian Perspective
By Monsignor David Cappo AO, Commissioner for Social Inclusion
Report on Research: Social Inclusion and Homelessness in South Australia — A
Critical Appraisal
By Chris Horsell, PhD Candidate, School of Social Work and Social Administration,
Flinders University
From Houses to Homes and Homes to Neighbourhoods: Good Process, Good
Location and Good Design for Social Inclusion
By Professor David Adams, Social Inclusion Commissioner for Tasmania
Partnerships and Principles for People: Social Inclusion and Homelessness in
Tasmania
By Mellissa Gray, Director, Social Inclusion Unit, Department of Premier and Cabinet
and Mercia Bresnehan, Director, Housing Tasmania, Department of Health and
Human Services
Chapter 4: Social Inclusion, Programs in Action
Social Inclusion and Chronic Homelessness
How We Have Helped Others to Help Ourselves
By Robyn Szechtman, City of Port Phillip
Journey to Social Inclusion: Social Inclusion for People who have Been Chronically
Homeless
By Sue Grigg, J2SI Manager and Suzi James-Nevell, BUDS Coordinator
A View From Inside Regina Coeli
By Jeanne Gabrielle, Resident Regina Coeli Community
Asylum Seekers and Refugees: Another Pathway to Homelessness and Social
Exclusion in Australia
By Johanna Burns, Northern Initial Assessment and Planning Coordinator,
HomeGround Services, Former Senior Caseworker, Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
Homelessness, Philanthropy and Social Inclusion
By Shane Austin, Leader — Community Strategy, Lord Mayor’s Charitable
Foundation, Chair — Philanthropy Australia’s Addressing Homelessness Affinity
Group
PESP Monthly Update
By Cassandra Bawden, PESP Project Worker
Opinion
The Meaning of Social Inclusion: An Interview with David Montgomery, PESP
Member
The July "Everybody Knows" Leaving Care and Homelessness Edition of Parity
CONTENTS
News
New Arrival at CHP
Putting the ‘Care’ Back into the Leaving Care System
By Cheryl Baxter, Director, and Livia Carusi, Regional Manager, The Salvation Army
EastCare Network
Identifying What Works and Why?
Feature: Leaving Care and Homelessness
Introduction
A Policy Goal or a Policy Problem?
By Philip Mendes, Monash University and Guy Johnson, RMIT University
Chapter 1: Government Initiatives
National Standards for Out of Home Care
By Karen Wilson, Branch Manager, Children’s Policy Branch, Women’s and Children’s
Group, Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
Improving Outcomes for Young People Leaving Care
By Sarah Finegan (in consultation with Children Youth and Families Division, DHS),
Project Leader, Housing Support Services, Housing and Community Building,
Scrambling Amongst the Silos
By Bernie Geary, Child Safety Commissioner
Chapter 2: Making Sense of Leaving Care Issues
Experiences of Homelessness by Care Leavers in Australia
By Joseph J. McDowall, Griffith University and CREATE Foundation
Housing Beyond State Care?
By Darren Lewin-Hill, Policy and Project Leader, Membership and Sector
Development, Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare
Addressing the Housing Needs of Young People
Transitioning from State Out of Home Care in Rural Victoria — A Case Study of St
Luke’s Anglicare in Bendigo
By Associate Professor Philip Mendes, Department of Social Work, Faculty of
Medicine, Monash University
Transition Planning: Three Policy Issues
By Guy Johnson, RMIT University and Kristin Natalier, University of Tasmania
Nobody Knows: Young People with Disability Leaving Care
By Robyn Edwards, Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales
Care Leavers and Homelessness in England: Protective Factors Offered by
Right2BCared4 and Staying Put 18+ Initiatives
By Clare Lushey, Research Associate, Centre for Child and Family Research,
Loughborough University, UK and Debi Maskell-Graham, Research Assistant, Centre
for Child and Family Research, Loughborough University, UK.
Post-Care Housing Pathways
By Dr Stian Thoresen, Research Associate and Dr Mark Liddiard, Senior Lecturer,
Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute and School of Occupational Therapy and
Social Work, Curtin University
Journeys of Exclusion: The Experiences of Young People with an Intellectual Disability
Exiting Care
By Sarah MacDonald, Research Worker, Community Living Association, Inc
Leaving Care: Numbers — People — Responses?
By Erin Ashmore, Melbourne Youth Support Service, Melbourne Citymission
Leaving Care
By Trish McCluskey, Regional Director, Berry Street Gippsland
Leaving Care Without Losing Care
By Nick Grainger, Anglicare
Chapter 3: Program Developments and Initiatives
Lead Tenant Services: A Bridge to Leaving Care
By Zoe London, Christopher Craig, Ninevah Haddad, Shane McLeod and David Parker,
MacKillop Family Services
Leaving Care: A Flexible and Innovative Approach to Housing
By Leah Galvin, Research and Social Policy Officer, Terry Atwood, Leaving Care Team
Leader, Cate Uren, Leaving Care Support Worker, and Sue King-Smith, Leaving Care
Support Worker, St Luke’s Anglicare
The Affordable Housing for Life Project for ‘At risk’ Young People
By Pauline Robertson, Executive Manager Business and Development Strategies
Exiting the Youth Justice System: Employment and Homelessness
By Caroline Gatenby, Research and Evaluation Manager, Whitelion
The Burwood House Leaving Care Program
By Dr. Jenny Higgins, Researcher, Research and Social Policy Unit, Wesley Mission
Victoria
Chapter 4: Voices from the Coalface
A Way to Go
By Tracie Alborough, The Salvation Army EastCare Network
My Transition from Care
By Samantha Gilligan, The Salvation Army EastCare Network, Program Client
Miracle Workers
By Tumua I Mailei (Zac), Residential Care worker, Salvation Army EastCare
Leaving Care and Homelessness: The Interview
Conducted by Cassandra Bawden, Peer Education Support Program Project Worker
PESP Monthly Update
By Cassandra Bawden, Peer Education Support Program Project Worker
Opinion
Bernie Geary OAM Child Safety Commissioner
‘Everybody knows – leaving care and homelessness’
The August" Responding to Homelessness in Queensland" Edition of Parity
Foreword — Responding to Homelessness in Queensland
Anna Bligh MP, Premier of Queensland
Editorial
Michelle Burrell, CEO CHP
Homelessness Australia August Update
By Travis Gilbert, Policy and Research Officer
Chapter 1: Government Responses and Initiatives
Implementing the National Partnership Agreement on Homelessness in Queensland:
An Overview
By Policy and Performance, Housing and Homelessness Services, Department of
Communities
Collaborative Homelessness Community Action Planning in Queensland
By Homelessness Programs, Housing and Homelessness Services, Department of
Communities, and the Queensland Council of Social Service
Community Support for Homeless People with a Mental Illness
By Community Mental Health, Disability Services, Department of Communities
Integrating Service Responses to Young People in Inner-city Brisbane
By Brisbane Region, Department of Communities and Children’s Health Services,
Queensland Health
RentConnect helps Queenslanders Access the Private Rental Market
By Private Housing Support, Housing and Homelessness Services, Department of
Communities
Chapter 2: Issues at Stake in Response to Homelessness in Queensland
The ‘Not So Lucky Country’
By David Hinchliffe, Councillor, Brisbane City Council
Homelessness in Queensland: Service Providers Perspectives
By Peter Mengede, Policy Officer,Queensland Shelter
Why Queensland Needs a Youth Homelessness Action Plan
By Maria Leebeek, Executive Officer, Queensland Youth Housing Coalition Inc
‘If I Had My Kids, I’d Be Rich’: Homelessness and Child Removal
By Dr Tamara Walsh and Dr Heather Douglas, TC Beirne School of Law, The
University of Queensland
Legal Health Checks: A Targeted Response to Legal Need
By Sue Garlick, QPILCH Homeless Persons’ Legal Clinic and Rachel Watson, Mission
Australia
A Crisis Unrecognised: The Invisibility of Women’s Homelessness
By Carol Birrell, Spiritus, Group Manager, Homelessness Services Women and
Children
HIP HOP – Scratching for Housing: Where are the Young Women in the
Homelessness Implementation Plan?
By Maria Leebeek, Executive Officer, Queensland Youth Housing Coalition Inc and
Talei Rice Zig Zag Young Women’s Resource Centre
Defining ‘Drop In’ on The Road Home
By Adam Barnes, Homelessness and Housing Coordinator, Brisbane Youth Service
Chapter 3: Program, Service and Practice Responses
Three Models at Work: Simple, but Not Easy
By Rod Kelly, Manager, 139 Club
The Ozcare Supported Parole Program
By Ozcare Queensland
Under 1 Roof: A Multi-Agency Response to Homelessness
By Fiona Caniglia, Under 1 Roof Project Worker
Mission Possible: Mission Australia Services and Collaborations in Queensland
By Avryl Gration, Operations Manager, Mission Australia Queensland, Amanda
Smith, Adventure Based Learning Coordinator and Robyn Lawrence, Lifestyle
Coordinator, Roma House
Where are Queensland’s Children Sleeping Tonight?
By Heather McAllan, Spiritus Youth Services and Karen O’Donohue, In-SYNC Youth
Services
Brisbane City Council and the Response to Homelessness
By the Brisbane City Council
Intensive Case Management through Homeless Outreach: Footprints in Brisbane Inc
By Carolyn Perry, Mental Health Projects Manager, Footprints in Brisbane Inc
Housed but not Forgotten
By Natasha Livings, Service Coordinator, Spiritus Anglican Women’s Hostel
Including All, Working Together: The Provision of Mental Health Care in the
Homeless Sector
By Liz Fritz, Manager, Blair Athol Accommodation Support Services and Chairperson,
Gold Coast Homeless Network and Hazel Bassett, Team Leader, Gold Coast Homeless
Health Outreach Team, Queensland Health
Real Outcomes vs Capacity Reporting: Changing Service Approach at the Ozcare
Homeless Men’s Hostel, Bundaberg
The Homeless Health Outreach Team (HHOT): Inner North Brisbane Mental Health
Service
By Dianne Tarrant, Acting HHOT Team Manager, INBMHS Metro North Mental
Health Service
Collaboration: The Key to Successful Client Outcomes
The RecLink “Transformers” Choir
By Genevieve Dingle, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Ben
Pennings, Community Development Co-ordinator, RecLink Brisbane, Chris Brander,
School of Psychology, The University of Queensland and Jolanda Jetten, School of
Psychology, The University of Queensland and The University of Exeter, England
Chapter 4: Housing and Homelessness, Responses and Issues in Queensland
Benefit Recipients Reliant on Shared Accommodation
By Joanne Copp, Executive Officer, Research and Advocacy, Spiritus
Six Star: Balancing the Benefits
By Jamie Muchall, Planning and Development Coordinator, Horizon Housing
Company
The Landlord’s Just Not That Into You: An Examination of ‘Just Cos’ Evictions and the
Magna Carta
By Janice McDonald, Coordinator of the Tenant Advice and Advocacy Service —
Brisbane Inner North
50 Lives 50 Homes: A Campaign to House and Support Brisbane’s Fifty Most
Vulnerable Homeless People
By Helen Styles, Community Liaison and Business Services and Karyn Walsh,
Coordinator, Micah Projects
Suburban Action: A Case Study for Family Homelessness
By Members of the South Queensland Council for Homeless Persons
“...it’s not great, but it’s home”: Notes of a Rooming Worker in Inner City Brisbane
By Liz Don, Tenant Rooming Advocate, Tenant Advice and Advocacy Service,
Brisbane Inner North
Affordable Housing in the Boom
By Margaret Robertson, Tenant Advice, Mackay
Supporting Homeless Families: Housing, Education, Training and Employment
By Maureen O’Regan, Kylie Robertson and Alison Thorburn, Micah Projects
Up for Rent Program at the Women’s Centre, Townsville
By Cathy Crawford, Coordinator, the Women’s Centre
From Drawing Board to Boardroom: Interview with Eloise Atkinson
A Local Government Response to Housing Need in the Community: The Gold Coast
By Ms. Kerrie Young, Chairman, Gold Coast Housing Company, Director of Property
Development Consulting Firm, Kerrie Young Property Pty Ltd
Tenancy Law and Homelessness: A Queensland Perspective on a National Issue
By Maria Tennant, Lurline Comerford, Sally Watson and Selina Toohey, Tenants’
Union of Queensland
“A real turn around”: Lynette’s Story
By Rebecca Oelkers, Business Development Manager, Brisbane Housing Company
The National Affordable Rental Scheme: Strengthening Affordable Housing Options
By Tegan Richardson, Policy Officer, Queensland Shelter
New Partnerships for Managing Growth and Affordability
By Paul Eagles, CEO, Queensland Urban Land Development Authority (ULDA) and
Rebecca Oelkers, Business Development Manager, Brisbane Housing Company (BHC)
Chapter 5: Consumer and Client Voices
My Ideal Home: Perspectives of the Homeless
By Joe Hurley and Gary Penfold, West End Community House
Homelessness on the Gold Coast
Ray’s View: Being Homeless and Living within Support Systems
Even in Happy Families: A Case Study of Domestic and Family Violence
Opinion
Opinion 1 – Nagging Thoughts and Damn Statistics Obscure a Homeless Free Vision?
By Adrian Pisarski, CEO, Queensland Shelter
Opinion 2 – Homelessness is Not the Sole Responsibility of Funded “Specialist
Homelessness Services”
By Jill Lang, Director, Queensland Council of Social Service
The September "National Homelessness" Conference Edition
Editorial
Narelle Clay, Chair, Homelessness Australia, CEO, Southern Youth and Family
Services Assoc Inc
News
In the event of... National Homeless Persons’ Week
By Aileen Solowiej, Communications, Media and Membership, Homelessness
Australia
Feature: “Many Ways Home”
From Transitional Housing Models to Permanent Housing Models for Homeless
People: A Paradigm Shift
By Jane Bullen, University of Technology Sydney, New South Wales
The Integration of Homelessness, Mental Health and Drug and Alcohol Services in
Australia
By Elizabeth Conroy and Lucy Burns, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre,
Paul Flatau and Anne Clear, Murdoch University
Common Ground Innovations in Australia
By the Australian Common Ground Alliance, Common Ground Adelaide, Common
Ground Tasmania, HomeGround (Victoria), Micah Projects (Queensland) and the
Mercy Foundation (NSW)
Experiences of Homelessness Among Adult Men in Sydney: Findings from the
Michael Project Research Study
By Anne Hampshire, Tim Marchant, Kathryn Di Nicola and Karen Larsen (Mission
Australia), Paul Flatau, Rebecca Roberts and Mark Spencer (Murdoch University),
Lucy Burns, Elizabeth Conroy, Bridget Spicer, Robyn Edwards (UNSW)
The Human Rights Based Response to Homelessness: Developments since the
Release of the White Paper
By James Farrell, Manager, Principal Lawyer, PILCH Homeless Persons’ Legal Clinic
It Could Be You: Female, Single, Older and Homeless
By Ludo McFerran, with assistance from Sonia Laverty
What Would it Take to Have an Effective Aboriginal Tenancy Support Service?
By Anna Paris, Ruah Community Services and Dr Paul Flatau, Murdoch University WA
Supporting Children Made Homeless by Family Violence
By Dr Angela Spinney, ISR, Swanbourne University
The Wicking Project Outcomes: Supporting Older People Living with Alcohol Related
Brain Injury
By Alice Rota-Bartelink, Research Manager, Wintringham
Every Home: A Safe Refuge from Violence
By Robyn Edwards, Social Policy Research Centre
Enhancing Social Inclusion Through Community Embedded, Socially Supported
University Education: The Catalyst-Clemente Program
By Alicia Baukis, Murdoch University, Jude Butcher, Australian Catholic University,
Jonathan Campton, St Vincent de Paul Society, Brenda Cherednichenko, Edith Cowan
University, Paul Flatau, Murdoch University, Gillian French, Mission Australia, Anne
Hampshire, Mission Australia, Peter Howard, Australian Catholic University, Tim
Marchant, Mission Australia, Sherry Saggers, Curtin University, and Youssef Taouk,
Australian Catholic University
Making the Invisible Visible, The Sydney Women’s Homelessness Alliance: A Starting
Point for Change
By Lara Sabbadin, Homelessness NSW
Responding to Children: Findings from a National Survey of Specialist Homelessness
Services
By Kylie Morphett and Christine Gibson, The Australian Centre for Child Protection,
University of South Australia
Mixed Messages: Anti-Social Behaviour and Public Housing
By Chris Povey, Senior Lawyer, PILCH Homeless Persons’ Legal Clinic, Victoria
The Homeless Persons’ Legal Service Solicitor Advocate: Ensuring Effective
Representation
By Julie Hourigan Ruse, HPLS Coordinator
Reframing Family Homelessness: A Citizenship Approach
By Angela Spinney and Kath Hulse, ISR, Swinburne University of Technology,
Melbourne and Violet Kolar, Hanover Welfare Services
Transition Beds: For When the Time is Right?
By Pamela Shepherd, Community Liaison Team, Royal Adelaide Hospital
A New Way Forward for an Aboriginal Women’s Homelessness Service —
Strengthening Service Linkages and Collaboration
By Anna Paris, Ruah Community Services
A Fine Outcome: Work and Development Orders
By Julie Hourigan Ruse, Coordinator, Homeless Persons’ Legal Service, NSW
Delivering Services and Improving Systems: The Call this a Home? Campaign Case
Study
By Gerald Frape, Social Cause Communication Consultant, Daniel Scoullar,
Communications Manager, HomeGround Services, Anne Tuohey, Research and
Policy Coordinator, St Vincent de Paul Aged Care and Community Services
Intergenerational Homelessness and Lifetime Experiences of Homelessness in
Australia: Evidence for the Need for Early Interventions
By Paul Flatau and Mark Spencer (Murdoch University), Tony Eardley, Robyn
Edwards, Elizabeth Conroy and Catherine Spooner (University of New South Wales),
Catherine Forbes (Monash University)
The Sum of Us — Our Journey Providing Homeless Healthcare
Sally Millinship, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney
Safe at Home in Victoria: Examining the First Six Months of Preventing Homelessness
among Women and Children Experiencing Family Violence
The October Come Together: Integrating the Response to Homelessness
Foreword
Senator the Hon Mark Arbib, Minister for Social Housing and Homelessness
Editorial
News and Recent Developments
The Victorian Homelessness Strategy: The Lift We Need on the Long Road Home
Homelessness Australia Update October 2010
By Nicole Lawder, Chief Executive Officer
The Road Home: Progress and Lessons
A Better Place: CHP’s Response to The Victorian Homelessness 2020 Strategy
New Ticketing System Entitlement for People with Disabilities in Victoria
Part 1: Conceptualising Systems Integration and the Response to Homelessness
Working Together to Achieve Service Integration
By the Australian Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and
Indigenous Affairs, Homelessness Implementation Branch
Service Integration: The Holy Grail for Human Services
By Rhonda Phillips, Professor Andrew Jones and Professor Brian Head
Integrating Responses to Homelessness: The Contribution of Participatory Action
Research
Dr Phil Crane, Senior Lecturer, Social Work and Human Services, Faculty of Health,
Queensland University of Technology
Closing Gaps and Opening Doors: Key Findings from the Evaluation of the
Queensland Responding to Homelessness Strategy
By Assoc. Prof. Robyn Keast, Queensland University of Technology, Dr Jennifer
Waterhouse, University of Newcastle, Prof. Kerry Brown, Southern Cross University,
Dr Glen Murphy, Queensland University of Technology
Making Service Integration Work
By Carol Jarrett, Manager, Strategic Development, Homelessness Strategy, Strategic
Programs, Department of Families and Communities, South Australia
Integrated and Personalised Services for Young People
By Sharon Bond, Research and Policy Centre, Brotherhood of St Laurence
Getting Serious About Systems Integration
By Sean Lappin, National Advisor, Homelessness and Housing, Mission Australia
Part 2: Systems and Service Integration in Practice
Diversion as an Aspect of Service Integration for Older Australians
By Shelley Mallett and Trish Westmore, Hanover Welfare Services
An Integrated Response to Homelessness in Tasmania: New Supply, New Services,
New Ways of Working
By Maryanne Lewis, Senior Housing Analyst, Homelessness and Indigenous Policy,
Projects and Reform, Housing Tasmania
Queensland Health Emergency Department Liaison Project
By Vivien Houston, Cezanne Ballinger, Christine Cotter, Joanne Lacey and Ann
Thomsen-Ajayi
Steps Outreach Service: What We Have Learnt in Our 25 Years of Working with
Young Homeless People in Melbourne
By Anne Mitchell, Manager, Steps Outreach Service
The 2010 Yarra HACC and Homelessness Service Coordination Forum
Is the Tide Turning for Older People Threatened with Homelessness?
On the Upside
By Nada Vindis, STREAT, General Manager Social Support
PESP Monthly Update
By Cassandra Bawden, PESP Project Worker
The Parity Interviews — Consumer experiences of Service Integration
Interviewed by Cassandra Bawden, PESP Project Worker and the Peer Education
Support Program (PESP)
Opinion
Paul Flatau
Murdoch University and Director of the AHURI WA Research Centre
The November 2010 "Homelessness and Dispossession" Edition of Parity
Contents
Editorial, Michelle Burrell, CEO CHP
NEWS
Homelessness Australia November 2010 Update
FEATURE: Homelessness and Dispossession
Introduction — Dispossession Starts at Home
By Noel Murray, Parity Editor
The Dispossession of Indigenous People: and it’s Consequences
By Mick Dodson AM, Director of the National Centre for Indigenous Studies at the
Australian National University
Indigenous Homelessness in Australia: An Introduction
By Paul Memmott and Catherine Chambers, University of Queensland
The Roots of Aboriginal Homelessness in Canada
By Andrew Leach, Chief Executive Officer of the Aboriginal Housing Management
Association (AHMA), British Columbia, Canada, and a member of the St’at’imc Nation
The Original Peoples of Australia, New Zealand and Canada and Homelessness: Are
we truly living in ‘Post Colonial’ Societies?
By M. Morning Star Doherty, Turtle Island Indigenous Education Corp, Vancouver,
Canada
Indigenous Homelessness: The Long Grass Difference
By Dr Cameron Parsell, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Social Science
Research, The University of Queensland
Displacement of Indigenous Peoples in the Former White Settler Colonies of
Australia, New Zealand and Canada
By Simon Emsley
Homeless in the Homeland: A Growing Problem for Indigenous People in Canada’s
North
By Frances Abele, Nick Falvo and Arlene Haché
SAFE TRACKS — A Strategic Framework for Supporting Aboriginal Mobility and
Reducing Aboriginal Homelessness
By Kerry Beck and Carol Shard, Department for Families and Communities, South
Australia
Indigenous Journeys from School to Work: A Canadian Perspective
By Lianne Britten, Macquarie University
Contemporary Displacement Pressures on Indigenous Australians in the Northern
Territory
By Simon Emsley
What Has Changed?
By Dan Laws, State-wide Aboriginal Homelessness Network Coordinator
Opinion
Flora Baoin-McCann — Australian Indigenous Homelessness and Dispossession
The December 2010 "Women and Homelessness" Edition of Parity
Foreword
The Hon Kate Ellis MP, Minister for the Status of Women
Editorial
Fiona McCormack, CEO, Domestic Violence Victoria
FEATURE: Women and Homelessness
Women and Homelessness
Safe and Free from Violence: A National Plan to Reduce Violence Against Women
and their Children
and Indigenous Affairs, Safety Taskforce
1800 RESPECT: National Sexual Assault, Family and Domestic Violence Counselling
Line
and Indigenous Affairs, Safety Taskforce
The ASU’s Family Violence Clause: Making Family Violence a Workplace Issue
By Julie Kun, ASU Organiser
Family Law and Women’s Homelessness
By Elspeth McInnes, BA Hons, PhD AM, University of South Australia
Poems
By Kathleen
Fallow Ground: (Re) Examining Women’s Experiences of Housing and Homelessness
By Robyn Martin, PhD Candidate, RMIT University Victoria, Lecturer, School of
Occupational Therapy and Social Work, Curtin University WA
It Could be You: Female, Single, Older and Homeless
The Family Violence Challenges for CALD Women and Women Living in Remote
Areas
By Amanda Alexander, Manager Olive’s Place and Marian Community
A Predictable Crisis: Older, Single Women as the New Face of Homelessness
Dr Andrea Sharam, Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology
One Size Does Not Fit All
By Yvonne Lay, Quality and Service Development Coordinator, Womens Domestic
Violence Crisis Service
Measuring Family Violence in Victoria Workshops
By Trish Westmore
Successful Interventions with Indigenous Women Using Homelessness Services
By Anne Wilson and Chris Talbot, UnitingCare Wesley, Adelaide
Tools for Change, Women and Financial Capability
A project about mentoring, low financial confidence and domestic violence…
By Sandi King, Women’s Health Goulburn North East
Improving Housing Services for Women from CALD Backgrounds
By Clare McKenzie, student at Family Violence Outreach Program and Stella
Riethmuller, student at Youth and Family Outreach Program, Salvation Army St Kilda
Crisis Services
Building Brighter Beginnings Playgroup: Social Connections, Education and Support
for Mums and Bubs
By Amelia Harris and Nich Rogers, Anchor Inc
Pathways to Recovery, A Community Based Model Supporting homeless women with
a mental illness from homelessness to independence
By Kara Holmes, City Women’s Hostel (in association with B Miles Women’s Housing
Scheme)
The Role of Advocacy: Collaborating to Build a Better Future for Homeless Women
By Sue Cripps, CEO Homelessness NSW
Invisible and in Need: Policy Recommendations for Single Women Impacted by
Homelessness
By Lara Sabbadin, Project Officer, Homelessness NSW
Supporting Women with Complex Needs
By Kim Burns, ICMI Project Coordinator, Hanover Welfare Services
Safe at Home and Safe at Work: Minimising the Impact of Violence
The BSAFE Pilot Project 2007–2010
By Elly Taylor and Rachael Mackay, Women’s Health, Goulburn North East
Women’s Experiences of Prisons, Drug-related Offending and Homelessness
By Renee Sinclair, Homeless Persons’ Liaison Officer, PILCH Homeless Persons’ Legal
Clinic and Michelle Batsas, Secondee Solicitor, PILCH
Domestic Violence: Things Aren’t What they Seem
By Shirley Slan, WESNET Indigenous Women’s Representative, North Queensland
Domestic Violence Resource Service, Mount Isa
Still Falling Through the Net — The experience of Homelessness as seen through the
eyes of women at the Medically Supervised Injecting Centre
By Sarah Hiley, Health Education Team Manager, Medically Supervised Injecting
Centre, Kings Cross, Sydney
Women and Homelessness: The Response Should Start with Empowerment
By Cassandra Bawden, CHP PESP Project Worker
Crisis? What Crisis?
By Grace McCall
A Call for Justice Towards Immigrant Women: Amending Australia’s Domestic/Family
Violence Provisions
By Maryann Athaide
The Outstanding Ethical Issue of Turning Away Women and Children who are Seeking
Refuge from Violence
representative, Women’s Services Network (WESNET) and Taryn Champion, Policy
and Project Officer, NSW Women’s Refuge Movement
Opinion
Julie Oberin — Australia Knows
2011
The February 2011 "Street to Home" Edition of Parity
Editorial: If Not Now When?
NEWS
Homelessness Australia – February 2011 Update
By Nicole Lawder, Chief Executive Officer, Homelessness Australia
New Women Against Violence Alliance Formed
Responding to the Queensland Natural Disasters
By the Queensland Department of Communities
2nd World Conference of Women’s Shelters
Youth Homelessness Matters Day
Chapter 1: Conceptualising Street to Home and Housing First
Conceptual Clarity: Housing First Strategies for Ending Homelessness
By Sarah Kahn, Manager, Policy and Communications Unit, Council to Homeless
Persons
Where Does Street to Home Fit Within Past and Present Homelessness and Housing
Policy Settings?
By Dr Jane Bullen, Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW
Street to Home: Opportunities and Challenges for Australia
By Dr Cameron Parsell, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Social Science
Research, The University of Queensland
Evaluating Street to Home: Does ‘Housing First’ Make Housing Last?
By Guy Johnson, Senior Research Fellow, Global Studies, Social Science and Planning,
RMIT University
A Street is Not a Home: Why Rapid Access to Housing Matters
Chapter Two: New South Wales: Building on Solid Foundations
No Longer Anonymous: Understanding and Addressing the Needs of Chronically
Homeless Rough Sleepers in Sydney
By Felicity Reynolds, CEO, The Mercy Foundation
Way2Home: Assertive Outreach Service for the Inner City of Sydney
By Trish Connolly, Acting/Principal Policy Officer, Homelessness Unit, Housing NSW
Reaching Home: Assertive Outreach Service, Newcastle NSW
By Reaching Home Newcastle
Chapter Three: Victoria: Taking the First Steps
Melbourne’s Most Vulnerable Begin the Journey from Street to Home with MS2H
By Clover Laurier, Coordinator, Housing Outreach Team, HomeGround Services, and
Georgina Standfield, Team Leader, Melbourne Street to Home, Community Outreach
Services, The Salvation Army
Melbourne Street to Home... How It Works! A Case Study
By Trish Dalton and Kate Maddaford, Community Health Nurses, RDNS Homeless
Persons Program / Melbourne Street to Home
Social Media and Melbourne Street to Home: A Match Made in Heaven
By Daniel Scoullar, Communications Manager, HomeGround Services and Melbourne
Street to Home
Councils and Homelessness: Calling for a Better Approach
By Kate Moore and James Farrell
Journey to Social Inclusion (J2SI): Breaking the Cycle of Chronic Homelessness
By Sue Grigg, Manager, J2SI
Homeless Vulnerability to What?
By Theresa Swanborough, OAM, Manager, RDNS Homeless Persons Program
Finding the Path from Street to Home
By Cassandra Bawden, CHP Peer Education Support Program Project Worker
Chapter Four: The South Australian Model and Experience
The Street to Home Service, South Australia
By Scott Kerdel, Service Coordinator, Street to Home Service, Adelaide Health
Service, SA Health
Shared Governance, Health and Housing Working Hand in Glove: The South
Australian Experience
By Trica Cash, Director, Street to Home Service, Ambulatory and Primary Health Care
Directorate, Central Northern Adelaide Health Service
Some Reflections on Working with Street to Home
By Kris Ryan, Senior Social Worker, Street to Home Service
Primary Homelessness and Alcohol and Other Drug Use
By Peter Beaumont, Clinical Nurse, Street to Home Service
Responding to Rough Sleeping at Adelaide’s Street to Home Service
By Tabitha Wallis-Smith, Senior Social Worker, the Street to Home Service (STH)
Chapter Five: Queensland
Fifty Homes are Just a Start: Street to Home Brisbane
By Karyn Walsh, Coordinator, Micah Projects
Chapter Six: Overseas Models
Ending Chronic Homelessness in the United States
By Lisa Stand and Kate Seif, National Alliance to End Homelessness, Washington, DC
An Introduction to the 100,000 Homes Campaign
By Rosanne Haggerty, Common Ground New York
Opinion
The March "Homelessness and Children" Edition of Parity
Editorial: The Good with the Bad
News
Census Update
By Sarah Kahn, Manger Policy and Communications, Council to Homeless Persons
Homelessness Australia Update March 2011
Chapter 1: Making the Connections
Linking Services for Young People Under Sixteen and Alone
By Claire-Anne Willis, Project Officer for the Linking Services for Young People Under
Sixteen and Alone project, Office of the Child Safety Commissioner
Can Collaboration Between Services Help Children?
By Christine Gibson, Australian Centre for Child Protection, Hawke Research
Institute, University of South Australia
Housing and the Wellbeing of Children
By Dr A. M Dockery, Director, Centre for Labour Market Research, Curtin University
The Need for Collaborative and Cohesive Early Childhood Programs
By Alison Thorburn and Kate Fanton, Micah Projects
Thoughts from the Frontline
By Zoe Probyn and Jodi Mohr, North West Homelessness Network
Chapter 2: Listening to Their Voices
Children as Active Agents Within the Homelessness Services System Response
By Julie Maggs, Children’s Resource Program, Loddon Mallee Region
Children are Not Invisible
An interview undertaken by Cassandra Bawden, PESP Project Worker and the Peer
Education Support Program (PESP) on behalf of the Council to Homeless Persons
Joining the Dots: Homeless Children’s Experience of Education
By Katrina McAuley, The North West Regional Children’s Resource Program
Chapter 3: Programs at Work (That Work)
Jason: A Tandana Place Case Study
By Mel Thomson, Program Manager and Provisional Psychologist, Tandana Place
Adolescent Rehabilitation House
Lighthouse Foundation Home for Young Mothers and Babies
By Rudy Gonzalez, Director of Care Services and Tymur Hussein, Clinical Care
Manager, the Lighthouse Foundation
Bright Futures: Children’s Specialist Support Service (Bright Futures)
By the Bright Futures Team Shureeka Alves, Luisa Iapozzuto and Michelle Atlas
North West Children’s Resource Program Homeless Children’s Brokerage Support
Project
By Halime Aldemir, North West Children’s Resource Program
Homeless Children’s Specialist Support Service
By Sharon Rooney, Natalie Lewis, Frances Butare and Frances Allen, Women, Youth,
Families and Children, Homeless Children’s Specialist Support Services, Hanover
Welfare Services
Chapter 4: Issues in Practice, Infants
Introduction – Mind the Baby: How the ‘homeless infant’ is Kept in Mind!
By Wendy Bunston, Manager, Addressing Family Violence Programs (AFVP),
Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital, Integrated Mental Health Program
The Homeless Infant
By Karen Glennen,Coordinator, Barwon South West Regional Children’s Resource
Program
Let’s Start At The Very Beginning: The Sound of Infants, Mental Health,
Homelessness and YOU
By Wendy Bunston, Manager, Addressing Family Violence Programs, Melbourne’s
Royal Children’s Hospital, Integrated Mental Health Program
Supporting the Homeless Infant through Mother/Infant Work in a Shelter Context
By Janet Orchard
Making the Most of Every Encounter
By Kirsty Manning and Jessica Little, Children’s Workers, Mercy Care Program,
McAuley Community Services for Women
A Children/Mother’s Group Work Program and the Question of “to stay or to go”?
When is leaving a better option?
By Tara Pavlidis, Mental Health Clinician, Addressing Family Violence Programs
(AFVP), Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital, Integrated Mental Health Program
Chapter 5: Therapeutic Interventions
Strengthening Bonds Through Music
By Rebecca Fairchild, Registered Music Therapist, Homeless Children’s Specialist
Support Service, Bethany Community Support
‘A Place Where I Belong’
By Stephanie Lai, Children’s Counsellor, Women’s Health West, Melbourne
Bright Futures Therapeutic Group Work Program
By Michelle Atlas and Janine Sheridan, Merri Outreach Support Service
Opinion
Bernie Geary OAM, Child Safety Commissioner
The April "Housing stress and Homelessness" Joint edition of Parity/HousingWorks
EDITORIALS
Affordable Housing at the Crossroads
Michael Perusco, CEO, Sacred Heart Mission; Chair, Council to Homeless Persons and
Chair, Australians for Affordable Housing
Taking the Steps to Alleviate Housing Stress
Joan Ferguson, Chief Executive Officer, Australasian Housing Institute
NEWS
2nd Annual Leadership Retreat Set to Offer New Perspectives
A New CEO at CHP
Michael Perusco, CEO, Sacred Heart Mission; Chair, Council to Homeless Persons and
Chair, Australians for Affordable Housing
Homelessness Australia April 2011 Update
FEATURE: HOUSING STRESS AND HOMELESSNESS
Introduction
An Introduction to Australia’s Housing Affordability Problem: Causes and Solutions
By Sarah Kahn, Manager, Council to Homeless Persons, Policy and Communications
Unit
Chapter 1: Rethinking Housing Stress and Homelessness
How and Who: Defining and Calculating Housing Stress
By Robert Tanton, Research Director, Social Inclusion and Small Area Modelling,
NATSEM
Housing Stress and Homelessness: Is There a Connection?
By Terry Burke, Swinburne University of Technology
Housing Stress and Housing Distress: What’s the Difference?
By Michelle Gabriel and Anne Coleman, School of Sociology and Social Work,
University of Tasmania
Renters and Purchasers at Risk of Homelessness
By Robert Tanton, Research Director, Social Inclusion and Small Area Modelling,
NATSEM
Housing Stress or Insecurity?
By Lise Saugeres, Principal Consultant, In-Depth Social Research, and Kath Hulse,
Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology
Housing Stress and the Mental Health of Families
By Elly Robinson, Research Fellow, Australian Institute of Family Studies
Home Ownership: A Better life or a Debtor’s Life?
By Barry Doyle, Senior Policy Officer, Community Housing Coalition of Western
Australia
Chapter 2: Renting and Marginal Tenancies
Who Experiences Rental Stress and How
Rent Increases: The Neglected Affordability Issue
By Deborah Pippen, Executive Officer, Tenants’ Union ACT
Marginal Tenures in Australia: Boarding Houses, Caravan Parks and All That
By Jon Eastgate
Unlocking the Door: New Hope for Older Women Facing Homelessness
By Tony Gilmour, Project Manager, Elton Consulting and Sue Cripps, Chief Executive
Officer, Homelessness NSW
Chapter 3: Perspectives on Affordable Housing
The Great Australian Nightmare: Confronting Australia’s Housing Affordability Crisis
The Social Impact of the High Cost of Housing
By Dr. Shae Garwood, Shelter WA
Community Rooming Houses: One Solution to Housing Stress?
By Dr Mandy Leveratt, Quality and Service Manager, St Kilda Community Housing Ltd
Is a Growing Community Housing Sector the Panacea for Alleviating Homelessness?
By Janelle Muller, National Manager, Communications and Quality, MA Housing and
Sean Lappin, National Homelessness and Housing Advisor, Mission Australia
Delivering Affordable Housing Differently
By Housing NSW
Under One Roof: Supporting People Away from the Housing Pathway into
Homelessness
By Andy Denniss, Operations Controller, Brisbane Housing Company
Housing Victorians Affordably is Not Impossible
By Steve Staikos, Policy and Public Affairs Officer, Community Housing Federation of
Victoria
The Nation Building Economic Stimulus Plan in NSW: Implications for Addressing
Homelessness
By Housing NSW
The May "Pets and Homelessness" Edition of Parity
Editorial
Homelessness Australia — May 2011 Update
How You Can Help the RSPCA
Introduction
Pets and Companion Animals: Why This is an Important Issue
Dr Rose Searby
Chapter 1: What Works?
Much More than Cats and Dogs
By Michael Linke, CEO, RSPCA ACT
People, Pets and Public Housing
By Jennie Churchill
The Unique Bond
By Jennifer Davis, Executive Manager Marketing, RSPCA Victoria
The Importance of Pets in Times of Hardship
By Debra Boland, Marketing and Communications, Animal Aid
Lort Smith Animal Hospital’s Emergency Welfare Assistance Program
By Melissa Hughes, Marketing and Fundraising Assistant, Lort Smith Animal Hospital
Pets Out West: Housing Rough Sleeping Pets in Western Sydney
By Stephanie Brennan, Manager, Community Services, Wentworth Community
Housing
Ferreting Out a Solution: Jane’s Story
One Department of Human Services — Achieving Great Client Outcomes
By Kirsty Carter, Manager, Service Integration and Sarah Acreman and Rebekah
Woods, Service Integration Officers, Service Integration, Client Outcomes, North and
West Metropolitan Region, Department of Human Services, Victoria
Pets of the Homeless: USA
By Genevieve Frederick, Executive Director/Founder, Pets of the Homeless
Chapter 2: Pets, Women, Families and Domestic Violence
Pets in Peril: Making the Connection Between Domestic Violence and Animal Cruelty
By Judy Johnson OAM, Former Manager, Eastern Domestic Violence Service
Safe Beds for Pets: The Forgotten Fallout from Domestic Violence
By Karen Thorne, RSPCA NSW and Jennie Churchill, Australian Common Ground
Alliance (and veterinarian)
We Made it Home — The betrayed, traumatised look in their eyes is finally gone
By Aileen Solowiej, Communications Officer, Homelessness Australia
Family Violence: What About Pets?
By Lisa Sandy, Support Worker, Family Violence Outreach Program, Salvation Army
Crisis Services
Sheltering Animals and Families Together (SAF-T) Program
By Allie Phillips, J.D.
Chapter 3: Older People, Homelessness and Pets
Tails of Friendship: Companion Animals and Wintringham
By Daniel Gray, Recreation Manager, Wintringham
Chapter 4: Interview(s)
Faithful Friends Are Family
Interviews by Allan Martin, Peer Education Support Program Graduate
Opinion
Felicity Reynolds
CEO Mercy Foundation
The June "Preventing Elderly Homelessness" Edition of Parity
Editorial — The Elderly Homeless Get a Win
Bryan Lipmann AM, CEO, Wintringham
News
Homelessness Australia — June 2011 Update
Section 1: Policy Perspectives
Policy Priorities to Prevent and End Homelessness
By the Council for Homeless Persons Australia
Older Homeless People: The Gap People
By Lynne Evans, CEO and Sally Kingdon-Barbosa, St Bartholomew’s House
Aging, Elder Abuse and Homelessness
By Margaret Steel, Lawyer, Seniors Rights Legal Clinic, Public Interest Law Clearing
House (Vic) Inc*
The Not so Golden Years: Responding to Homelessness Among Older Australians
Section 2: The ACHA Program
The ACHA Program: Assisting in the Prevention of Elderly Homelessness
By Glen Atkins, ACHA Coordinator, Paul Williams, ACHA Coordinator and Bernadette
King, Senior Coordinator, Homelessness, Mental Health and Disability Services,
Catholic Community Services
How the Assistance with Care and Housing for the Aged (ACHA) Program Prevents
Homelessness Amongst the Frail, Aged
By Elaine Smith, ACHA Outreach, Wintringham
Section 3: Housing
Older Renters in the Private Rental Market: Issues and Possible Solutions
By Alan Morris, School of Social Sciences and International Studies, University of
New South Wales
Better Services and Housing Outcomes: A New Lease on Life for Older People
Inc
Housing for Older Australians: Affordable, Well-located and Suitable?
By Barbara Squires, Sarah Fogg and Marianne Doherty, The Benevolent Society,
Sydney, NSW
Service Models for Older Homeless Women
By Annabel Senior, Director, Regional Services, Homelessness, Mental Health and
Disability, Catholic Community Services
Residential Park Rent Increases: The Road to Homelessness
By Dianna Evans, Co-ordinator, Park and Village Service, Combined Pensioners and
Superannuants Association of NSW
Deckchairs on the Iceberg
By Kate Incerti, Team Leader, Housing and Homelessness Services, The City of Port
Phillip
Housing Older People in Victoria: New Partnership and Tested Models Needed for
Challenging Times
By Joseph Connellan, Director, MC Two Pty Ltd
Section 4: Health and Mental Health Issues
Integrating Aged Care and Homelessness Services through CACP: Benefits and
Barriers Experienced by Ozanam Community Centre
By Doug Harding, Acting Team Leader, Ozanam Community Centre
The Voice of Experience: The Development of Consumer Participation Strategies for
Older People Experiencing Mental Health Problems
By Chris Hartley and Ka Ki Ng, NSW Consumer Advisory Group, Mental Health Inc
Premature Ageing and Homelessness
By Alice Rota-Bartelink, Wintringham
Old Age Comes at a Bad Time
By Gabrielle Nunan, Case Manager, Community Connections Program, Merri
Outreach Support Service
Section 5: Responding to Squalor
Preventing Progression from Squalor to Homelessness
By John Snowdon, Old Age Psychiatrist, Concord Hospital and University of Sydney
Older People, Their Living Conditions and Homelessness
By Leonie Miller, Service Manager, Catholic Community Services, Central Coast,
Hunter and Mid North Coast
Section 6: Overseas Experience and Models
Elderly Homeless in the UK: Lessons from Abroad
By Tina Magennis, Director, Strategic Innovation and Research, Catholic Community
Services
Preventing Homelessness Among Older People in England
By Maureen Crane, Social Care Workforce Research Unit, King’s College London and
Tony Warne, Sheffield Institute for Studies on Ageing, University of Sheffield
Section 6: Interviews
“God Bless All of Them”
Interviews by Allan Martin, Peer Education Support Program Graduate
Section 7: Opinions
John Blewonski — A Society that Cares About Our Older People Living on the Edge
Chief Executive Officer, VincentCare
Annabel Senior
Director, Regional Services, Homelessness, Mental Health and Disability, Catholic
Community Services
The July "Centrelink and Homelessness" Edition of Parity
Foreword
Tanya Plibersek MP, Minister for Human Services, Minister for Social Inclusion
Editorial — ‘Centrelink and Homelessness’
Jenny Smith, CEO, Council to Homeless Persons
NEWS
Homelessness Australia — July Update
Countdown to Census Night: Tuesday the 9th of August 2011
By Sarah Kahn, Manager, Policy and Communications Unit, CHP
Part A: Centrelink and the Response to Homelessness
Secretary’s Message
By Kathryn Campbell, Secretary, Department of Human Services
The Portfolio of Human Services: What can we do to help?
Overview of Payments and Services
Department of Human Services
A Unique Partnership
By Scott Buick, Centrelink Social Worker, Wodli HOME Advice Program, SA
Social Work Values in Engagement Officer Practice
By Anne Manicas, Centrelink Social Worker, Area North Central, Victoria
Brian’s Story
By Dalia Pisk, Centrelink Social Worker, Bankstown Centrelink Customer Service
Centre, New South Wales
Grass Roots Assistance in Alice Springs
By Christine Sharma, Centrelink Community Engagement Officer, Alice Springs,
Northern Territory
Mandy’s Story
By Vicky Bowen and Michelle Bail, Centrelink Social Workers, Townsville, Queensland
Thursday Morning in the Life of a Centrelink Community Engagement Officer
By Gavin Bampton, Centrelink Community Engagement Officer, Rockhampton,
Queensland
Rockhampton Homeless Connect: A Centrelink Community Engagement Officer
Perspective
By Leah Munns and Gavin Bampton, Centrelink Community Engagement Officers,
Area Central North Queensland, Rockhampton
Social Work: Reflections from the Recovery Centre
By Glen Muller, Centrelink Social Worker, Area Central North Queensland,
Rockhampton
A Delicate Balance of Needs
By Angela Bowen and Liza Roberts, Centrelink Social Workers, Gladstone,
Queensland
Beyond The Link: Supporting Homeless Men Along the Participation Pathway
By Paula Webber, Centrelink Social Worker, Parramatta, NSW
Centre Links: Exploring Story, Strengths and Community Partnership for Homeless
Youth
by Daniel Hadson, Centrelink Social Worker, Wyong Shire, and Corrina Peck, LINKS
Youth Service, San Remo Neighbourhood Centre
Soup Patrol
By Simon Murrish, Centrelink Community Engagement Officer, Innaloo, Western
Australia
Soccer Brings People Together
By Aaron Fisher, Centrelink Collaborative Service Development Manager, Western
Australia
Connecting People with a Brighter Future Ahead
By Brenton Sloane, Portfolio Communication, National Support Office, ACT
Part B: Centrelink and Homelessness, Analysis, Examination, Discussion
Centrelink and Homelessness: Part of an Emerging ‘Mainstream’ Response?
By Peter Humphries
The Hand That Feeds: Centrelink and Homelessness
Use Centrelink Power to Help People!
By Maree O’Halloran, NSW Welfare Rights Centre
Income Quarantining — The Cure or The Cause?
By James Farrell, Manager/Principal Lawyer, PILCH Homeless Persons’ Legal Clinic
(HPLC)
Half a Citizen: Life on Welfare in Australia
An excerpt from Half a Citizen: Life on welfare in Australia, by John Murphy, Suellen
Murray, Jenny Chalmers, Sonia Martin and Greg Marston
Centrelink Community Support Unit at the Crisis Centre: 20 Years On
By Dr Lisa Harris, Lecturer Social Policy, RMIT University
Flexibility is Required to Make the System Work
By Suzi James-Nevell, Building Up and Developing Skills Coordinator, Sacred Heart
Mission, Journey to Social Inclusion and Stella Young, Employment Consultant,
Mental Illness Fellowship of Victoria
Prisoners, Centrelink and Homelessness
By the Research and Evaluation Unit, Australian Community Support Organisation
(ACSO)
Income Management and Homelessness
By Emily Webster, Welfare Rights Legal Officer, Central Australian Aboriginal Legal
Service
Tamara: A Case Study
By Dr Shefali Rovik, Coordinator, External Relations Unit, Office of Chief Executive,
Juvenile Justice, NSW Department of Attorney General and Justice
Part C: Consumer Voices
Consumer Voices: Centrelink and Homelessness
Interview by Allan Martin, Consumer Advocate with the Peer Education Support
Program
The Peer Education Support Program (PEST) Update
Homelessness and Centrelink
By Kevin
Part D: Further Food for Thought
Garbage
By Dr John Falzon, Chief Executive Officer, St Vincent de Paul Society, National
Council of Australia
Hard to Take: Constructions of Welfare Dependency and Privileged Entitlement
By Mark Furlong, Senior Lecturer in Social Work, Deakin University
Book Review
Half a Citizen — Life on welfare in Australia
Reviewed by Felicity Reynolds, CEO, Mercy Foundation
Opinion
Maree O’Halloran
President, National Welfare Rights Network
Removing Centrelink’s Road Blocks
The August "Evaluating Homelessness Programs" Edition of Parity
Editorial
NEWS
Homelessness Australia Update: August 2011
New Australian Homelessness Clearinghouse
Work First. What Next? The Government’s Participation Reforms (Following on from
the previous edition)
By Verity Archer, Lecturer, School of International and Political Studies, Deakin
University
Feature: Evaluating Homelessness Programs
Introduction
By Associate Professor Jo Baulderstone, Director, Flinders Institute of Public Policy
and Management, Flinders University of South Australia
Part A: Doing Evaluation
A Primer on Doing Evaluation of Social Programs
By Jeff Borland* and Yi-Ping Tseng
Everyday Evaluation on the Run
By Yoland Wadsworth, RMIT University
Evaluations: Including the Important Questions
By Julie Goodall and John Thomson, Thomson Goodall Associates
Reflections on Reflecting
D.I.Y. Outcome Measurement
By Mark Planigale
The Outcome Business
By Tony Chasteauneuf
Part B: Evaluation in Practice
Evaluating J2SI: Linking the Processes and Outcomes of Becoming Housed
By Sharon Parkinson and Guy Johnson (RMIT University), Yi-ping Tseng and Daniel
Kuehnle (Melbourne University), Nicola Wylie (Sacred Heart Mission)
Elizabeth Street Common Ground Supportive Housing
By Mandy Bow, Senior Evaluation and Policy Officer, Department of Human Services,
Victoria
The Homeless Intervention Project (HIP)
By Jayke Burgess, Case Manager, Darryn O’Brien, Manager, The Haymarket Centre
and Kay Elson, CEO, The Haymarket Foundation
The Joint Tenancy Assistance Program Review Report: Evaluation in Practice
Juvenile Justice, NSW Department of Attorney General and Justice and Sarah Keech,
Associate Lecturer and Indigenous Studies at Nura Gili, UNSW
CONSUMER VOICES: Evaluating Homelessness Programs: From The Horse’s Mouth
Interview conducted by Allan Martin, Consumer Advocate with the Peer Education
Support Program
Part C: Evaluation and Homelessness Policy
The NSW Homelessness Action Plan: Continuing to Build the Evidence
By the NSW Department of Family and Community Services
Evaluating Homelessness Reforms in South Australia
By Nancy Rogers, Manager, Research, Department for Families and Communities
Opening Doors: The Queensland Strategy for Reducing Homelessness 2011–14
The Contribution that Accreditation/Quality Improvement Work Makes to Evaluation
By Karen Sherry, Sector Accreditation Project Officer, Council to Homeless Persons
Opinion
Evaluating Homelessness Programs
By Professor Paul Flatau, Director, AHURI UWA Research Centre and Director, UWA
Business School Centre for Social Impact
Editorial
NEWS
Homelessness Australia Update: August 2011
New Australian Homelessness Clearinghouse
Work First. What Next? The Government’s Participation Reforms (Following on from
the previous edition)
By Verity Archer, Lecturer, School of International and Political Studies, Deakin
University
Feature: Evaluating Homelessness Programs
Introduction
By Associate Professor Jo Baulderstone, Director, Flinders Institute of Public Policy
and Management, Flinders University of South Australia
Part A: Doing Evaluation
A Primer on Doing Evaluation of Social Programs
By Jeff Borland* and Yi-Ping Tseng
Everyday Evaluation on the Run
Evaluations: Including the Important Questions
By Julie Goodall and John Thomson, Thomson Goodall Associates
Reflections on Reflecting
D.I.Y. Outcome Measurement
By Mark Planigale
The Outcome Business
By Tony Chasteauneuf
Part B: Evaluation in Practice
Evaluating J2SI: Linking the Processes and Outcomes of Becoming Housed
By Sharon Parkinson and Guy Johnson (RMIT University), Yi-ping Tseng and Daniel
Kuehnle (Melbourne University), Nicola Wylie (Sacred Heart Mission)
Elizabeth Street Common Ground Supportive Housing
By Mandy Bow, Senior Evaluation and Policy Officer, Department of Human Services,
Victoria
The Homeless Intervention Project (HIP)
By Jayke Burgess, Case Manager, Darryn O’Brien, Manager, The Haymarket Centre
and Kay Elson, CEO, The Haymarket Foundation
The Joint Tenancy Assistance Program Review Report: Evaluation in Practice
Juvenile Justice, NSW Department of Attorney General and Justice and Sarah Keech,
Associate Lecturer and Indigenous Studies at Nura Gili, UNSW
CONSUMER VOICES: Evaluating Homelessness Programs: From The Horse’s Mouth
Interview conducted by Allan Martin, Consumer Advocate with the Peer Education
Support Program
Part C: Evaluation and Homelessness Policy
The NSW Homelessness Action Plan: Continuing to Build the Evidence
By the NSW Department of Family and Community Services
Evaluating Homelessness Reforms in South Australia
By Nancy Rogers, Manager, Research, Department for Families and Communities
Opening Doors: The Queensland Strategy for Reducing Homelessness 2011–14
The Contribution that Accreditation/Quality Improvement Work Makes to Evaluation
By Karen Sherry, Sector Accreditation Project Officer, Council to Homeless Persons
Opinion
Evaluating Homelessness Programs
By Professor Paul Flatau, Director, AHURI UWA Research Centre and Director, UWA
Business School Centre for Social Impact
The September "Responding to the National Plan to Reduce Violence Against
Women and Their Children" Edition of Parity
Foreword
By The Hon. Kate Ellis MP, Minister for the Status of Women
Editorial
By Jenny Smith, CEO Council to Homeless Persons
NEWS
Homelessness Australia September Update
Wintringham Awarded United Nation’s ‘Habitat Scroll of Honour’
Introduction
A Long History: The National Plan in Context
By Jacqui Theobald
The National Plan to Reduce Violence Against Women and their Children
By the FaHCSIA Safety Taskforce
Responding To The National Plan To Reduce Violence Against Women and Their
Children
By Jill McCabe, Director, Office of Women’s Policy, Department of Human Services
(Victoria)
Reflections on Developing and Implementing the National Plan to Reduce Violence
Against Women and their Children
By Heather Nancarrow
Long-term Security Prevents Family Violence
By Kathy Landvogt and Rathi Ramanathan, Good Shepherd Youth and Family Service
The Intersections Between the National Plan, the Homelessness White Paper and its
Impact on Services to Women and Children who are Homeless due to Domestic and
Family Violence
By Catherine Gander, Executive Officer, NSW Women’s Refuge Movement (WRM)
and NSW representative, Women’s Services Network (WESNET) and Taryn
Champion, Policy and Project Officer, NSW Women’s Refuge Movement and WRM
representative on the Australian Women Against Violence Alliance Advisory Group
Australian Women Against Violence Alliance — AWAVA
By Julie Oberin, Chair AWAVA
Domestic Violence and Animal Cruelty: The National Plan has Missed the Link
By Judy Johnson OAM, Board Member, Eastern Domestic Violence Service
Imperatives for the Women’s Sector in the Implementation of the National Plan
By Tracy Castelino MSW, PhD, Consultant, Preventing Violence Against Women
The National Plan Must be Evaluated, Sustainable and Whole-of-Government
By Renee Imbesi, Manager, VicHealth’s Preventing Violence Against Women
Program
Consumer Voices
An interview conducted by CHP PESP Team Leader and HAS Advocate Cassandra
Bawden with the support and assistance of DV Vic.
What About Research? Comment on the National Plan to Reduce Violence Against
Women and their Children
By Deb Western and Robyn Mason, Gender, Leadership and Social Sustainability
(GLASS) Research Unit, Department of Social Work, Monash University
Tackling Violence Against Women: It’s Our Responsibility
By the ACT Minister for Women, Joy Burch MLA
An Opportunity Lost
By Danny Blay, Executive Officer, No to Violence and the Men’s Referral Service
Getting the Numbers Right: The Basis for Sound Policy
By the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW)
The ALRC’s Inquiry into Family Violence and Commonwealth Laws
By Khanh Hoang, Legal Officer, Australian Law Reform Commission
Why Domestic Violence is a Workplace Issue
By Ludo McFeran, Workplace Rights and Entitlements Project Officer, Australian
Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse
Extending the Reach: A Timely and Tailored Response to Children who Experience
Family Violence
By Anita Morris, Turtle Program, Northern Domestic and Family Violence Service,
Berry Street, Victoria and General Practice and Primary Health Care Academic
Centre, University of Melbourne, Emma Toone, Mary Utter and Fevi Christovitchin,
Turtle Program, Northern Domestic and Family Violence Service, Berry Street,
Victoria
Taking the National Plan to the Community
Community Engagement in Remote and Regional Australia
By Julie Oberin and Karen Bentley
The M Factor: Media as a Setting for Violence Prevention
By Vanessa Born, Media Projects Officer, Domestic Violence Victoria (DV Vic)
Stalking and Violence and the Workplace
By Ludo McFeran, Workplace Rights and Entitlements Project Officer, Australian
Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse
The Importance of Regional Integration and Coordination in Practice within the
National Plan to Reduce Violence Against Women and their Children
By Robyn Trainor, Loddon Campaspe Regional Integration Coordinator, Family
Violence EASE Inc and Centre for Non-Violence, and Erin Davis and Jill Faulkner,
Eastern Region Family Violence Partnership Executive Committee member and
Deputy Executive Officer of Eastern Domestic Violence Service
Opinions
Fiona McCormack
CEO, Domestic Violence Victoria (DV Vic)
Andrea Durbach
Deputy Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Australian Human Rights Commissioner
Julie Oberin
National Chair, WESNET
The October Homelessness Research Edition of Parity
Foreword
Senator the Hon Mark Arbib, Minister for Social Housing and Homelessness
Editorial
Jenny Smith, CEO Council to Homeless Persons
Hoarding and Squalor
By Annabel Senior, Director, Regional Services, Homelessness, Mental Health &
Disability
Youth Homelessness Matters Day — 18 April 2012
Feature: Homelessness Research: Improving Services, Improving Outcomes and
Working to End Homelessness
Introduction
Homelessness and Research: A Golden Age or a Missed Opportunity?
By Dr Guy Johnson, Senior Research Fellow School of Global Studies, Social Science
and Planning, RMIT University
Part 1: The National Homelessness Research Agenda
The National Homelessness Research Agenda
By the FAHCSIA Evidence and Planning Branch
Filling the Knowledge Gap: Journeys Home: Longitudinal Study of Factors Affecting
Housing Stability
By the FaHCSIA Evidence and Planning Branch
Part 2: Research Projects Under the National Homelessness Research Agenda
What Makes a Difference? An Evidence based Client Outcomes Model for
Homelessness
By Hellene Gronda, Director, AHURI Research Synthesis Service
Researching Policy and Service Integration in Homelessness: What Works and Why?
By Rhonda Phillips and Brian Head, Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR),
University of Queensland
Developing Homelessness Research Capacity at the Institute for Social Science
Research at the University of Queensland
By Andrew Jones and Mark Western, The University of Queensland Institute for
Social Science Research
Taking Shape: Street to Home Programs and Initiatives
By Dr Eleanor Button, Flinders University
Researching ‘Street to Home’ in the Australian Context
By Cameron Parsell and Kristen Davis, The University of Queensland Institute for
Assisting Women to Break Free of the Cycle of Repeated Use of Refuge and Crisis
Accommodation
By Angela Spinney, Swinburne Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of
Technology
The Challenge of Monitoring Regional Indigenous Homelessness
By Paul Memmott, Kelly Greenop, Michele Haynes, Andrew Clarke and Mark
Western, The University of Queensland Institute for Social Science Research
Non-Psychiatric Disability and Homelessness: Building an Evidence Base for Better
Policy
By Professor Andrew Beer, Director, Centre of Housing, Urban and Regional
Planning, Deb Batterham, Emma Baker, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Housing,
Urban and Regional Planning (CHURP) School of Social Sciences, The University of
Adelaide and Shelley Mallett, General Manager Research and Service Development
at Hanover Welfare Services
Homelessness and Older Australians: Developing a Research Evidence Base
By Maree Petersen and Andrew Jones, The University of Queensland Institute for
Part 3: Issues and Themes in Australian Homelessness Research
Responding to the Needs of the Elderly Homeless — Ageing in What Place?
By Trish Westmore, Project Manager, Hanover Welfare Services
Action Research and Reconnect — ‘Speaking Action Research as a Second Language’
in a National Youth Homelessness Prevention Program
Responding to Youth Homelessness — Young People’s Experiences with a Foyer-type
Service
By Professor Marty Grace, Victoria University, Dr Deborah Keys, University of
Melbourne (formerly of Melbourne Citymission), Aaron Hart, Victoria University and
Bernadette Keys formerly of Melbourne Citymission
Homeless Women — No Home at the End of the Road
By Dr. Andrea Sharam, Research Fellow, Swinburne Institute for Social Research,
Swinburne University
Homeless Men — Chronically Homeless Men in Parramatta CBD
By Gabrielle Drake and Michael Darcy, University of Western Sydney
Homelessness, Health and Sex Work — The SHANTUSI Report: Understanding the
Complexities of Homelessness, Health and Sex Work
By Sue White, General Manager, Inner South Community Health Service, Melbourne
and Dr. James Rowe, RMIT University
Issues in Service Delivery — Unintended Consequences: The Impact of Delivery
Systems on Homelessness
By Michael Darcy, Hazel Blunden and Neil Hall, University of Western Sydney
Consumer Participation — Owning the Research Agenda
By Cassandra Bawden, CHP, PESP Project Team Leader
Food Insecurity — Food Insecurity, Health and Homelessness
By Jill Whelan, PhD Candidate, Deakin University
Researching the Homelessness Workforce: What Sustains an Effective Workforce to
Tackle Homelessness?
By Bill Martin, Rhonda Phillips and Ning Xiang, The University of Queensland Institute
for Social Science Research
Part 4: The Future of Homelessness Research
The Future of Homelessness Research
By Dr Andrew Hollows, Deputy Executive Director, Australian Housing and Urban
Research Institute (AHURI)
The National Homelessness Research Agenda: Questioning State-Sponsored
Homelessness Research
Part 5: Perspectives on Counting the Homeless
Homelessness Australia October 2011 Update
Counting the Homeless and Beyond — More than Mere Statistics: The Importance of
Research in Increasing our Understanding of Homelessness
“Who’s Counting and What Counts”
By Zoë Probyn, North and West Homelessness Network
Opinion
Shelley Mallet
General Manager, Research and Service Development at Hanover Welfare Services
The December Responding to Homelessness in Tasmania Edition of Parity
Foreword
Cassy O’Connor, MP,Minister for Human Services
Editorial
Jenny Smith, CEO, Council to Homeless Persons
Feature: Responding to Homelessness in Tasmania
Putting the Pieces Together
Introduction
Pieces of the Jigsaw: Homelessness in Tasmania
By Dr Anne Coleman, Guest Editor, School of Sociology and Social Work, University
of Tasmania
Chapter 1: Homelessness in Tasmania
Homelessness in Tasmania
By Compliance and Corporate Support, Housing Tasmania, Department of Health and
Human Services
Tasmania’s Approach for Supporting People who are Homeless or at Risk of
Homelessness
By Housing Strategy, Housing Tasmania, Department of Health and Human Services
Homelessness and Affordable Housing in Hobart
By Simon Duffy, Community Inclusion Coordinator, Community Development,
Hobart City Council
Chapter 2: The Policy Framework
The Homelessness Policy Framework in Tasmania
The Tasmanian Homelessness Plan 2010–2013: Coming in from the cold
Tasmanian Social Housing Policy: From Affordable Housing Strategy to Tasmanian
Affordable Housing Limited
By Jed Donoghue, Manager Housing and Homeless Stream, Salvation Army Tasmania
and Dr Ellie Francis-Brophy, Institute of Education, University of Reading, UK
Counting the Homeless: ABS Revised Estimation Methodology
“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple” or are they?
By Andrea Witt and Belinda Jones, Shelter Tasmania
Hobart City Council’s Policy Response to Homelessness and Affordable Housing in
Hobart
Hobart City Council
Understanding the Problem of Homelessness
By Keith Jacobs, School of Sociology and Social Work, University of Tasmania
New Ways of Working
Chapter 3: Key Themes and Issues in the Response to Homelessness in Tasmania
Keeping the ‘public’ in Public Spaces
By Anne Coleman, School of Sociology and Social Work, University of Tasmania
“Gimme Shelter!” — Where is the Voice of Tasmania’s Homeless Men?
By Julian Northmore, Colony Outreach Support Service (COSS)
Shelter from the Storm: The Demand for Community Housing
By Jed Donoghue, Manager, Housing and Homeless Stream, Salvation Army
Tasmania and Bruce Tranter, Associate Professor, School of Sociology and Social
Work, University of Tasmania
Key Hobart City Council Actions in Response to Homelessness and Affordable
Housing in Hobart
Hobart City Council
Young People Leaving Care Transition Program
Age a Key Issue
By the Karinya Team, Karinya Young Women’s Service
Tasmanian’s Mental Health and Homelessness Symposium
By Michelle Swallow, Mental Health Council of Tasmania, Jane Carlson, Anglicare
Tasmania, Pattie Chugg, Shelter Tasmania and Toni Law, Mental Health Council of
Tasmania
A Journey to Independence
By Shari Collis, Youth Services Manager, Colony 47
Recognising Homelessness in Public Space: Intolerance and Invisibility
By Tristan S. Ferguson, University of Tasmania
Strata Title Legislation and the Implications for Homelessness
By Erika Altmann, PhD Candidate, University of Tasmania
Avoiding the ‘Double Whammy’ — Personal Strategies to Prevent Mental Ill-Health
and Homelessness in Tasmania
By Anita Pryor, Anglicare Tasmania Social Action and Research Centre
Domestic Violence and Homelessness in Tasmania
By Diane Burton, Team Leader, McCombe House and Jed Donoghue, Manager
Housing and Homeless Stream, the Salvation Army Tasmania
Supporting Children Made Homeless by Family Violence: An Update on the Safe from
the Start Project
By Dr. Angela Spinney, SISR, Swinburne University, Melbourne
Private Rental Support: An Effective Homelessness Prevention Strategy
By Jenny Forrest, Senior Private Rental Support Scheme (PRSS) Worker, Anglicare
Tasmania
Busting the Myths about Quality
By Kate Lord and Shandell Elmer, Quality Management Services (QMS) Tasmania
Chapter 4: Consumers, Clients and the Voices of the Homeless
An Interview with Mark Hay
By Julian Northmore, Colony Outreach Support Service (COSS)
Nightmare to Dream
By Colin
Skye’s Story
By Skye
Voices from Colony 47
Chapter 5: Program and Service Responses to Homelessness in Tasmania
What Makes a (Boarding) House a Home?
By Louise Bieser, Northern Area Manager, Housing and Homeless Services, Anglicare
Tasmania Inc
Centacare Tasmania Housing Programs
By Centacare Tasmania
“Silver Lining”… Engaging Marginalised Families: Innovative, Inclusive, Selfdetermining, Responsive and Respectful
By Erin Breen, Silver Lining Project Worker and Mim Domanska, CTSS and Silver
Lining Team Leader, Centacare, Launceston, Tasmania
Common Ground Tasmania: Introducing Common Ground Supportive Housing to
Tasmania
By Elizabeth Thomas, Managing Director, Common Ground Tasmania
Centrelink and Homelessness in Tasmania
By Lara Kirkpatrick, Public Affairs and Media Officer, State, Emergencies and Events
Communication, Communication Division, Department of Human Services
Family Literacy and Vocational, Education, Resource and Support Pilot Program
(FLAVERS)
By Wendy Meek, Project Coordinator, FLAVERS at Hobart Women’s Shelter and
Women’s Creative Leadership Program
Empowering Women in Crisis, Magnolia Place, Launceston Women’s Shelter
By Carolyn Banks, Response Tenancy Worker, Magnolia Place, Launceston Women’s
Shelter
Providing Services for Single Fathers
By Jon Richings and Haidee Fullard, Support Workers ACCESS North West
STAY: Positive, Healthy, Connected and Housed
By Kevin Preen, State Coordinator, STAY Program and Jacinta Atkins, Mark Thorp and
Phoebe Scott Perry, Centacare Tasmania
Reintegration for Ex-Offenders
By Don McCrae, Senior Case Manager in the Salvation Army (REO) Reintegration for
Ex-Offenders (REO) Program
Young Mums with Nowhere to Go
By Karinya Young, Women’s Service
Opinion
Pattie Chugg
CEO Shelter Tasmania

1998 – 2011 - Council to Homeless Persons

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