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Homelessness Australia (HA) is the national peak body organisation for homelessness services and homeless people in Australia.The organisation provides systemic advocacy for the sector and works in collaboration with support services, state and national homelessness organisations, other peak organisations, government agencies and the broader community.
Youth Off The Streets provides various homelessness and housing support services for young people aged 25 and under. [16] These services include prevention and early intervention support, crisis accommodation in two youth refuges, transitional housing, one-on-one casework support and referrals to other specialist services.
Mission Australia is a national Christian charity that provides a range of community services throughout Australia. It has its roots in the Brisbane sector of The British and Foreign Bible Society’s sub-committee, The Colporteur Society (1869), and Sydney City Mission (1862), but was only officially established in 1996, bringing together a number of city missions across the country.
Jewish House is an Australian-Jewish non-profit organisation assisting homeless people. It is based in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. [1] The organisation was founded in 1986 by local businessmen Roger and Anthony Clifford.
Interagency Council on Homelessness, a US federal program and office created by the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act of 1986 [1] International Brotherhood Welfare Association; Invisible People, Invisible People is an American 501(c)(3) non-profit organization working for homeless people in the United States.[1] The organization educates ...
There were 105,237 people experiencing homelessness in Australia on census night in 2011. This equated to 1 in 200 Australians, [4] and represented an increase of 17% from the 2006 census, with the rate of homelessness increasing from 45 per 10,000 to 49 per 10,000 or an increase in population percentage terms of 0.04%.
Najidah is a nonprofit secular organisation in Australia dedicated to reducing societal tolerance of abuse and the development of safer communities. Located in Queensland on the Sunshine Coast, it was founded as "Jacana lodge" (a homelessness service) in the early 1990s before becoming an incorporated association in 1999.
Coast Shelter (registered as Central Coast Emergency Accommodation Services Ltd.) [1] is a non-profit organisation supporting homeless young people, adults and women and children experiencing domestic & family violence in the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. Coast Shelter is the largest regional Specialist Homelessness ...