The Department is funding a number of training opportunities to registered community housing providers as part of the Strengthening Social Housing – A strategy to build capacity of not for profit housing providers. Training is being delivered by the Centre for Managed Strategies through the...
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Inside this edition:
- Implementation of Homelessness Community Action Plans
- Vacancy Capacity Management System rollout
- Implications of taking a ‘duration of need’ approach
- Ensuring accurate assessments of clients’ need for social housing
- Workforce development news
Pro Bono News May 9, 2012
Homelessness Australia (HA) the peak body for homelessness has welcomed the delivery of the final instalments of the affordable housing and homelessness agreements in the Federal Budget. “We are pleased to see that the final instalments in funding for the National Affordable...
Pro Bono News April 17, 2012
A new program aimed at tackling homelessness among Sydney men has found that access to a range of health, education and social supports can help homeless people improve their well-being, social and economic participation and access to sustainable housing. The Michael Project, run...
Pro Bono News April 12, 2012
The Australia Institute for Combined Pensioners and Superannuants Association (CPSA) has called on the Federal Government to abandon the recommendations of the Productivity Commission’s report ‘Caring for Older Australians’ following the results of its nationwide survey.The call comes...
Pro Bono News April 4, 2012
The Federal Government will commit $60 million dollars over three years to help build community-based accommodation for adults with severe or profound disability. Prime Minister Julia Gillard said that twenty-one organisations across Australia will share in the funds through the...
Pro Bono News April 4, 2012
Half of Australians seeking help for homelessness are under 25 and almost twenty per cent are under 10, according to new research by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. The report, ...
Pro Bono News March 29, 2012
A new report which compares the lives of 1.1 million Australians who have experienced homelessness with the general population paints a stark and depressing picture, according to leading homeless organisation Mission Australia.
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Pro Bono News March 29, 2012
The Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan has opened the Australian Council of Social Service’s 2012 Conference by highlighting the importance of Australians to have a stake in the policy debate and economic success of the country. ...
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