#EndHomelessnessWA Update:
April 2019
Welcome to the e-news for the WA Alliance to End Homelessness. Read on for updates on the 10-Year Strategy to End Homelessness in Western Australia and to find out how you can get involved.
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Upcoming Meetings & Events
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Next Pulse Meeting | Wednesday 8 May, 9.30am
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Topics: Housing (Common Ground) and ER Connect
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Join us at our next Pulse Meeting!
Each fortnightly Pulse Meeting offers the opportunity for anyone working towards ending homelessness to come together, hear updates, workshop ideas, and use our pop-up co-working space.
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The next Pulse Meeting includes discussions on housing supply, in particular the Common Ground model. Representatives from WACOSS will also be at the meeting to share the digital tool ER Connect with an opportunity to try it. |
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Upcoming Meeting | Wednesday 22 May, 9.30am
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Topics: Data (VI-SPDAT) and the Rough Sleepers Cohort Plan
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What Happened at the Last Meeting
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At the WA Alliance to End Homelessness Pulse Meeting on 10 April, attendees contributed to discussions and workshopping of ideas related to initiatives including
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‘By-Name Lists’, the Rough Sleepers Action Plan, and providing better employment pathways for those who are experiencing homelessness.
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SAVE THE DATE |‘Home, Safe Home’ | 5 - 11 August 2019
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Save the date for Homelessness Week, held between 5-11 August this year. The Week's theme is 'Home, Safe Home' and will see events happening around WA.
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The aim of the week is to raise awareness of homelessness, the issues people face, and the action needed to end homelessness.
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All not-for-profit community services organisations and local governments in Western Australia are invited to apply for the Homelessness Week event grants.
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Grants are available for up to $2,000 per organisation. They are designed to have a wide-reaching effect in raising awareness about homelessness.
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Are we failing our young homeless people?
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A recent National Report Card on Youth Homelessness found little progress has been made in the past decade. WAAEH Project Officer Kai Schweizer spoke to ABC Radio's
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Jessica Strutt about how being homeless made him "invisible". Kai says he knew what services were out there but struggled to get access to them.
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Youth Homelessness Matters Day Service Safari
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Members of WA's Youth Homelessness Advisory Council boarded the Street Connect bus to tour the metro area and see first-hand the critical services available to homeless youth. The 'service safari' held on Youth Homelessness
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Matters Day toured local homeless services and provided a valuable opportunity for council members to talk to staff about what can be done to improve the current system.
Photos: YACWA |
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Bush dwellers told to move
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People living in bushland in East Rockingham have been issued with a move-on notice, but WAAEH Lived Experience Advisor Jonathan
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Shapiera says they need to be supported, rather than removed from an area that has become their home.
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Representatives from relevant organisations or individuals with a passion and interest in particular areas of homelessness in WA are
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invited to express an interest in joining or advising to a working group to help progress a part of the 10-year plan to end homelessness.
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Anglicare Australia has released its Rental Affordability Snapshot. The Snapshot surveyed over 69,000 rental listings across Australia and found that there is a chronic shortage of affordable rentals. More and more people have been pushed into rental stress and homelessness.
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Older Women’s Risk of Homelessness: Background Paper. The paper, published by the Australian Human Rights Commission, provides context regarding older women’s homelessness. It offers some potential solutions to reduce women’s risk of homelessness with a focus on preventative and innovative approaches that look beyond social and community housing as the answer.
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If you would like to find information about homelessness and related services in Western Australia, please click the button above.
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The Western Australian Alliance to End Homelessness is proudly supported by Lotterywest.
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We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of country throughout Western Australia and recognise their continuing contribution to land, waters, and culture. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.
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