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The NSW Homelessness Action Plan
The NSW Homelessness Action Plan (HAP) - A Way Home: reducing Homelessness in
NSW, sets the direction for state-wide reform of the homelessness service system
to achieve better outcomes for people who are homeless or at risk of
homelessness. Through the NSW HAP, the NSW Government will re-align existing
effort, increasing the focus of the service system on prevention and long-term
accommodation and support.
HAP Program Summary
The HAP establishes a series of priorities, strategies and actions to achieve the
following three strategic directions:
- Preventing homelessness to ensure that people never become homeless
- Responding effectively to homelessness to ensure that people who are homeless
receive effective responses so that they do not become entrenched in the system
- Breaking the cycle to ensure that people who have been homeless do not become
homeless again.
One of the major focuses of the HAP is the reform of the specialist
homelessness, specialist and mainstream service systems to ensure that services
identify people early who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, and provide
them with joined-up flexible services that meet their needs.
RDA Murray NSW HAP
Consists of:
Early Intervention Brokerages (50)
Brokerage packages (moderate/low needs) will be available to support case plans
of at risk groups, managed by partner agencies and will allow for access to
services that are otherwise unavailable through existing funds/infrastructure.
Social Housing Intensive Support Packages (30)
Housing NSW will provide 30 social housing tenancies per annum for homeless
people. These capital properties and/or leases will be located in Albury, Wagga
and Griffith. 30 high needs brokerage packages will be available aimed at
sustaining these tenancies.
Target Group
The target group for this service is "people, including Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander people who are home¬less or at risk of homelessness".
This includes:-
- People who are in crisis and at imminent risk of becoming homeless;
- People who are experiencing domestic violence and are at imminent risk of
becoming homeless; and
- People who reside in the Riverina/Murray (encompassing the Local Government
Areas of Albury, Balranald, Berrigan, Carrathool, Conargo, Coolamon,
Cootamundra, Corowa, Deniliquin, Greater Hume, Griffith, Gundagai, Hay,
Jerilderie, Junee, Leeton. Lockhart, Murrumbidgee, Murray, Uarrandera, Temora,
Tumbarumba, Tumut, Urana, Wagga, Wakool.)
Project Aims
The project will contribute to the reform agenda by better integrating the homelessness
and mainstream service system.
To achieve this, the project will provide interagency supports to clients and
allocate funding based on client needs identified in an interagency case
management plan.
HAP Program Structure
Client Eligibility Criteria
Early Intervention Brokerages
Single adults, families or young people aged 16-25 years who are: re:
- Not currently in supported accommodation;
- Who are at risk of homelessness;
- Who may be disengaged or at risk of disengaging from family, school/education,
training or employment.
Social Housing Intensive Support Packages
10 single adults and 20 families with accompanying children experiencing primary
homelessness who are or may be:
- Repeat users of crisis accommodation services; or
- At risk of chronic homelessness; or
- Rough sleepers (at the time of referral); and
- Experiencing complex issues including but not limited to: alcohol and other
drugs, mental health including self harm, intellectual/ cognitive disability and
challenging behaviour.
For more details please contact Sherri Driver
at
sherri.driver@rdamurray.org.au or on +61 2 6058 0600
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