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Homelessness Summit Examining the integration of policy,

strategy and innovative service deliveryto overcome the cycle of homelessness

PRESENTING THE 4TH BIENNIAL

22 – 23 July 2015 | Wesley Conference Centre, Sydney

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS IN OVERCOMING HOMELESSNESS:

– Addressing housing affordability and building capacity & sufficient support

– Engaging with families at risk to prevent impending homelessness

– Examining specialist Aboriginal homelessness services

– Reviewing new approaches to youth homelessness

– Focusing on innovative approaches and responses to women’s homelessness and domestic violence

– Facilitating complex healthcare needs

– Breaking social isolation and building communities

PRESENTATIONS FROM:

Rev Paul Turton, Senior Manager, Homelessness and Justice Services, Melbourne City Mission

Sherri Bruinhout, Director Homelessness and Justice Services, Melbourne City Mission

Karyn Walsh, CEO, Micah Projects

Kate Jeffries, Operations Manager – Accommodation and Therapeutic Services (ATS), Communicare

Kylie Travers, CEO, Occasio Enterprises

Michelle Waterford, Research and Policy Director, Anglicare Australia

Annabelle Daniel, CEO, Women’s Community Shelters

Daniel Scoullar, Director, Social Change

Matthew Gray, Director, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS:

– Getting social right at your NFP

– Innovation in integrated homelessness service delivery

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Homelessness Summit Wednesday 22 July 2015

8:30 Registration and welcome coffee

9:00 Opening remarks from the Chair


9:10 OPENING ADDRESS

Examining the directions for homelessness policy and strategy

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9:50 Delivering a diverse mix of service models to tackle the ‘wicked’ social issue of homelessness

— Increasing numbers of people at risk of homelessness in cities

— Developing reforms that set informed priority directions for investments in a diverse service system designed to reduce homelessness

— Establishing robust links between prevention and early intervention

— Partnership and collaboration between specialists services to drive a holistic strategy

Sherri Bruinhout, Director Homelessness and Justice Services, Melbourne City Mission

10:30 Morning tea

STATE OVERVIEWS

10:50 Providing integrated services to address homelessness in Western Australia

— Identifying the gaps in homelessness services in WA

— Securing greater resources to enable social housing

— Developing a responsive, collaborative and diverse service that integrates early intervention and prevention at the core

— The challenges for crisis accommodation


11:30 Implementation of new reforms and the management of the interim period

— Addressing emerging funding gaps in the vacuum between implementation of new reforms - focus on young people, women and children and other vulnerable groups

— Investing in crisis response while the reform is being bedded down

— Committing to homelessness funding for the six year reform with a minimalist approach to re-tendering to enable services to consolidate service delivery

— Additional investment in social and affordable housing


12:10 Victoria – The 2020 strategy – where are we at now

— Challenges for early intervention and prevention

— The Life Stage Approach – a systemic strategy addressing the cause and effect for people experiencing homelessness at different stages of their lives

— Building capacity and skills in the workforce primed for early intervention and skilled to tackle diverse issues


12:50 Lunch

1:50 The central importance of housing affordability in alleviating poverty and homelessness

— The budget and recent economic and policy indicators

— Thinking about housing as a national infrastructure priority to maximise its potential to contribute to economic growth, productivity and participation

— Considering how negative gearing and capital gains tax breaks affected housing affordability

— Tackling the continuing challenges for availability, access, managing demand and the housing prices

— Building capacity and sufficient support


2:30 Examining the integration of policy, strategy and innovative service delivery to overcome the cycle of homelessness

— Working alongside people and communities who are marginalised to help them develop options and pathways

— Service diversity to model collaboration through multiple service provisions and external relationships

— Ensuring people’s complex barriers can unfold and have a reduced impact on their lives

Michelle Waterford, Research and Policy Director, Anglicare Australia

3:10 Applying a framework of social innovation to homelessness service delivery

— The fundamental factors in meeting social need and the implications for prevention and management of homelessness

— Evolution and adaptation of existing approaches and strategies by applying innovation that integrates multiple actors across areas of function

— Building the skills and capacity to move along the continuum of homelessness to sustained tenancy


3:50 Afternoon tea

4:10 Engaging with families at risk to prevent impending homelessness – The Rubys Reunification program

— Understanding the risk factors for homelessness

— Working holistically with families where there are high degrees of conflict, thus placing a young person at risk of homelessness

— Intensive engagement with multiple family members to drive a holistic intervention

— Taking a therapeutic approach with a focus on relationships and creating change with clients

Cheryl Hillier Service Manager, Therapeutic Youth Services, Uniting Communities

4:50 Examining the outcomes of the Journey to Social Inclusion program

— Developing a relationship informed model based on persistence and trust, with a focus on rapid access to independent housing

— Tackling the challenge of entrenched disadvantage and trauma

— The importance of developing service delivery frameworks that are flexible and reflect the needs of the participants rather

— Strengthening links between homelessness services and long-term support

Cathy Humphrey, CEO, Sacred Heart Mission (invited)

5:30 Closing remarks from Chair and end of Day One with Networking Drinks

DAY 1

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8:30 Networking coffee

9:00 Opening remarks from the Chair

9:10 Assessing the cost of homelessness

— The personal, societal and economic cost of homelessness

— The experience, impact and needs of homelessness

— The social and economic outcomes of the transition to self-reliance and independence, improved health and well-being and the re-establishing of positive social connections and employment participation


9:50 FOCUS SESSION: SERVICE MODEL – Examining Communicare’s innovative and strategic response to FDV and Homelessness

SESSION 1: Developing the full wrap around services for accommodation and therapeutic support services to women and children escaping violence

— Perpetrator behaviour change intervention

— Advocacy, support and training for minority groups such as people in same sex relationships and CaLD communities

— Breathing Space: A three month residential behaviour change for FDV perpetrators

Kate Jeffries, Operations Manager – Accommodation and Therapeutic Services (ATS), Communicare

SESSION 2: Providing support in addressing and stabilising the complex needs

— The Transition In program: Addressing mental health and drugs and alcohol which would otherwise be an exclusion criteria for men who are FDV perpeterators

— The Transitional Support program: Supported accommodation for men who have completed FDV perpetrator programs

— Enabling the men completing FDV programs the best chance of long term behaviour change

Gary Smith, Program Manager, Offender Services, Communicare

10:40 Morning tea

11:00 Innovative approaches and local community responses to women’s homelessness and domestic violence

— Why politics gets in the way of true long-term thinking and building capacity for innovative endeavours in the homelessness

— Examining the contexts and immediate and entrenched factors that pose a challenge for women

— What defines the nature of homelessness among women and their experiences?

— Learning from the engagement and interaction of women as users of homelessness services to inform strategy

— Establishing new crisis accommodation for homeless women

Annabelle Daniel, CEO, Women’s Community Shelters

11:40 Domestic violence and homelessness: not just a lower income issue

— Looking at the needs of victims of domestic violence in middle income groups who end up homeless

— How we can help them and how to prevent them falling into homelessness

— Using social media to raise funding and awareness

Kylie Travers, CEO, Occasio Enterprises

12:20 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and drivers for homelessness

— The key risk factors that entrench and perpetuate homelessness amongst Indigenous Australians

— How has policy and strategy responded and how effective has service provision been in alleviation, early intervention and prevention?

— An overview of stand-out programs in recent years that have had a measure of success in long terms strategy and support

Matthew Gray, Director, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research

12:50 Lunch

1:50 Examining the specialist Aboriginal homelessness services

— Establising an assertive outreach program for Aboriginal people and to connect them with essential services, support and housing

— Focusing on intentionally adapting services to Aboriginal-specific practice and changing policies to ensure culturally appropriate services

— Nature of support services - detox


2:30 Reimagining Youth Homelessness Support

— The evidence for change exists, not the combined will

— Progress requires welfare agencies and government to address our contested relationships

— Shifting the focus of support from origins to destinations


3:10 New approaches to youth homelessness - The Education First Youth Foyer model being led by the Brotherhood and Hanover

— Lack of education and employment as two of the most significant factors that lead to homelessness

— An integrated learning and accommodation centre to develop the skills of young people at risk by providing and combining accommodation, education, training and employment

— Accentuating the positives for long term and sustainable outcomes for youth

Senior Representative, Brotherhood of St Laurence

3:50 Afternoon tea

4:10 Changing the world one tweet at a time – Social media as community engagement

— Challenging the view of homelessness services as Government sub-contractors and why they aren’t doing more to engage their communities around the causes, contexts and long-term solutions to homelessness in Australia

— Outlining a theory of change based on galvanising true public commitment to the goal of ending homelessness

— Focusing on how modern tools such as social media, online communities and mobile devices can be used to break down barriers, stigma and prejudice and how every service provider can be an effective agent of change

Daniel Scoullar, Director, Social Change Projects

4:50 The Homelessness to Healthcare program – Breaking social isolation to build community

— Addressing the complex health needs

— Building on the momentum created through the Brisbane Homeless Healthcare Network to improve the health response to homeless

— Working through multiple settings - centre-based and street-based settings, to people aged from 14 to 86 years

Karyn Walsh, CEO, Micah Projects

5:30 Closing remarks from the Chair and end of conference

Homelessness Summit Thursday 23 July 2015 DAY 2

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Venue Details

Wesley Conference Centre, 220 Pitt Street, Sydney NSW 2000

Phone: (02) 9263 5500, www.wesleymission.org.au

Sponsorship & Exhibition Opportunities

Excellent opportunities exist to showcase your organisation. For further information, please contact: Damian Dulanovic on (+61 2) 9080 4042 or email: [email protected]

PRE CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS | TUESDAY, 21ST JULY 2015

WORKSHOP A

9:00 – 12:30 Top to bottom – Getting social right at your NFP

This workshop will take participants step by step through a process for developing, implementing and monitoring an effective social media strategy.

Case studies and examples from homelessness, housing and other community services will be used to illustrate how this process can be used by organisations large and small. Suitable for managers and others overseeing or directly involved in social media in not-for-profits.

Daniel Scoullar, Director, Social Change

WORKSHOP B

1:30 – 4:00 Innovation in integrated homelessness service delivery

Kate Jeffries, Operations Manager - Accommodation and Therapeutic Services (ATS), Communicare

Gary Smith, Program Manager Offender Services, Communicare

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