Subject: INFORM 9 March, 2012, Homelessness
Australia.
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Weekly digest from the
homelessness and allied sectors in Australia and abroad 9 March, 2012 |
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CAMPAIGNS Homing
In: on the real issues of homelessness Homelessness Australia’s awareness campaign has launched! See more here. ACOSS:
$35 a day is not enough! Lift
paltry allowances and help people into paid work Join our Campaign to raise
unemployment allowances such as Newstart and demand better targeted jobs
assistance Twitter @ACOSS on
hashtag #ImNoBludger. Australians
for Affordable Housing Nearly one in ten
Australian households are in housing stress. A startling 460,000 households
spend more than half of their income on housing costs. It’s time to make some
noise about housing affordability. Website.
Facebook: www.facebook.com/housingstressed
Media: -Australians for Affordable Housing
Welcomes New Federal Cabinet Housing Minister End
Youth Homelessness With Virgin Unite,
sign the Petition. See the Partners.
Watch the Media.
Twitter: @EYHAustralia, Facebook. EVENTS &TRAINING Call for
Abstracts
for Homelessness Australia’s 7 National Conference due by 16 March ASU Training on Negotiating Domestic Violence
Clauses Australasian Housing Institute March Red
Roses Musical Touring nationally, website. Concentrations
of social disadvantage in Australia's cities: key questions and hypotheses Canberra, 14 March, website. Housing
and social wellbeing: new AHURI research Melbourne, 15 March,
website. Seeking
asylum in Australia - mental health and human rights of children and families Seminar,
Melbourne,15 March, website. What
works to increase Indigenous employment? AIHW, Canberra, 19
March, website. Young
People from refugee & migrant backgrounds and homelessness forum Multicultural Youth
Affairs Network of NSW is hosting this forum, Sydney, 20 March, website. Housing
First Partners' Conference 2012 New Orleans, 21 -
23 March, website. ACOSS
Media Forum Sydney, 28 March, website. New
approaches to Indigenous housing This AHURI Housing Research Seminar will present the findings
from two new AHURI research projects. Adelaide, 28 March, website. ACOSS
National Conference The ACOSS Annual
Conference is a premier national event for policy-makers, researchers and
those engaged in social services or advocacy in Sydney, 29 -
30 March, website. April Northern
Territory Regional Homelessness Action Plans More information here
or contact Morgan Sabbith at NT
Shelter by email hpo@ntshelter.org.au . The
Big Issue Street Football Festival The festival with
corporate, government, junior events & National Championships of The Big
Issue’s Community Street Soccer Program. Cockle Bay, Sydney,
April 11 - 22, website. Youth InterACT Conference: 2012
Change Your World All young people
aged 12 -
25 are welcome and encouraged to attend. Information: Facebook. Innovations
in ending youth homelessness: unlocking private rental; an interactive
Q&A forum Council to Homeless Persons, Melbourne, 16 April, website. The
inaugural Third Sector Expo Free-to-attend two
day professional development conference and exhibition, Melbourne, 16 -
17 April, website. Youth Homelessness Matters
Day Theme: Be part of the Solution Nationally: 18
April Website & Facebook Homelessness
Research Conference From AHURI and RMIT
University, Melbourne, 19 - 20 April, website. May The
Connecting Up Conference Sydney, 1 -
3 May, website. The
Australian Regional Women Leaders
Convention 2012 A national event for
regional and rural women, Sydney, 3 - 4 May, website. Reforming
Public Services Summit Melbourne, 7 - 8
May, website. CLCNSW
State Conference 2012 Sydney, 8 - 10 May website. Community
Legal Centres NSW Pushing the
Boundaries, Sydney, 9 - 10 May, website. Homelessness
NSW Conference Getting
Results, Newcastle, 14 - 15 May, website. ACTU
Congress Sydney,
15 – 17 May, website. National
Rural and Regional Law and Justice Conference Coffs Harbour, 18 -
20 May, website. Specialist
Homelessness Services Conference Leading the Road
Home, Perth, 28 - 29 May, website. 7th
Young Children Without Homes National Conference The only national
conference that focuses exclusively on young children and their families who
experience homelessness, Boston, USA, 30 May, website. June Crime
prevention and communities Shelter NSW Conference: Explorations
in nonprofit housing: models vicissitudes resurgence Sydney, 14 June, website. Australian
Suicide Prevention Conference Cairns, 13 - 15
June, website. International
Women's Conference: Connecting for Action in the Asia-Pacific Region Cairns, 14 June, website. July Australasian
Conference of Child Trauma Gold Coast, 4 -
6 July, website. Missing
People: Issues and Implications Conference Brisbane, 5 -
6 July, website. 12th
Australian Institute of Family Studies Conference Melbourne, 25 – 27
July, website. 3rd
National Affordable Housing Exchange Australia Technology
Park, Sydney, 26 - 27 July, website. August 8th
World Congress on Active Ageing Glasgow, Scotland,
13 -
17 August, website. Doing
Justice for Young People - Issues
and Challenges for Judicial Administration in Australia and New Zealand Brisbane, 23 -
24 August, website. September 7th
National Homelessness Conference: “Making It Home” the real issues in homelessness Homelessness
Australia’s 7th conference, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition
Centre, 5 -
7 September 2012, website. Access to housing for homeless
people in Europe University of York,
UK, 21 September, website. October The
21st Century Approach to Mental Health Perth, 17 -
19 October, website. The 7th National Housing Conference Brisbane, 30 October - 2 November, website. November 3rd
International Conference on Survivors of Rape Galway, West
Ireland, 9 - 10 November, website. No
To Violence (NTV) Conference Melbourne, 14 -
16 November, website. WEEKS & DAYS 2012 Sector
related awareness days and weeks see webpage. Youth
week is 13 - 22 April Youth Homelessness Matters Day (YHMD)
day is 18 April Monday 6 August –
Sunday 12 August |
NATIONAL NEWS $1 million taken from criminals
to help women and children escaping domestic violence Jobless figures tipped to rise Official
unemployment figures are expected to reveal ongoing weakness in the labour
market, with economists expecting a rise in the unemployment rate from 5.1
per cent in January to 5.2 per cent in February. ABC News, 8 March. National alcohol guidelines
being ignored New research
suggests the vast majority of Australians don't know how many drinks
constitute a safe level of consumption. ABC News, 6 March. NewStart allowance gap grows
wider Indigenous jail rate 'shameful' Aboriginal youths
are 25 times more likely to be imprisoned than their non-indigenous
counterparts, a figure Aboriginal legal activists have called ''shameful''. The Age, 6 March. Cancer death rates higher for
Indigenous people New research shows
Indigenous people with cancer are 50 per cent more likely to die in the year
following their diagnosis than non-Indigenous people. ABC News, 5 March. Sleeping giant: worker fatigue
'epidemic' Australian workers, especially parents, are
suffering from an ''unrecognised epidemic'' of tiredness, a new study
suggests. The Canberra Times, 5 March. Assaults on kids by parents are
on the rise Disturbing reports of parents assaulting
their children have soared by nearly a third in just a year. Herald Sun, 5 March. The home truth about violence Reports of men abusing partners are
soaring. The Age, 4 March. The tricks charities try to
cash in on the vulnerable, elderly and dying Wave of asylum seekers to wash
into community Continued Assistance for
Homeless Older People Federal government
ministers ACT Children's
suburbs pointers to exclusion More than one in 25 Australian children risks life-long social
exclusion because of the suburb in which they grow up, according to new
research from the University of Canberra. The Canberra Times, 7 March. Mixed
response to new ANU housing Teepee student A young man is
living in a teepee on Canberra's Lake Ginninderra because he does not like
student housing. ABC News, 2 March. NSW Changing
face of homelessness: How did this ex-cop become so broke she had to live in
a car? News, 9 March. Access
all areas: new rules for miners Shooting
deaths spark call for mental health overhaul Care Connect (Ongoing) Service to help At
Risk of Homelessness in Inner West Sydney. Care Connect’s Community Options Program (Housing
Support) provides short-term to medium-term support services to people who
are at risk of being homeless or being marginally housed. The Program has
vacancies now. Please contact Lisa Clarke, Intake Case Manager on (02) 9830
8903 or lallen@careconnect.org.au. NT Scrap
NT intervention laws: Malcolm Fraser Qld Relocation fears as ocean
swallows Torres Strait islands SA Gloom strips $15m from charity
coffers SA will be safer as population
ages Tas Detention centre doors close The last asylum
seekers have been transferred from Tasmania's Pontville Detention Centre and
the Federal government has now officially closed the site. ABC News, 6 March. Vic State Coroner investigates
several youth suicides State
close to recession Remember women facing homelessness
on International Women’s Day - Homeground Future of housing program in
doubt Council to Homeless
Persons chief Jenny Smith said the program focused on getting families out of
unsuitable places such as dangerous rooming houses and into transitional
homes and permanent accommodation. Need for better outcomes for
vulnerable children Surge in abuse reports stretch
crisis services to breaking point 'Embarrassed' victim kept
silent for 13 years WA Young
crims may face adult courts Broome
police lay sly-grog charges INTERNATIONAL NEWS NZ Housing NZ cuts kill praised
home-find service UK Housing the homeless: Charity
launches property fund USA Homeless
people become their own advocates Home
for Good Los Angeles County is often called the national capital of
homelessness, with more than 51,000 people lacking shelter on any given
night. The NY Times, 1 March. SURVEY Homelessness Australia Members Only Survey 2012 Help
shape the Victorian Whole-of-Government Alcohol and Drug Strategy forum and
survey. Survey of household energy use and
affordability GRANTS/SCHOLARSHIPS/FUNDS Australian Scholarships Foundation Reducing Violence Against Women
and Children Grants Energy Efficiency Information
Grants Program Round One, closing 16 March. Funding to support community-based
projects Queensland Alliance for Mental Health Resilient Places Project:
Micro-grants, round 2. THANKS to... The journalists and media
who write and report on the homelessness, housing and support sector. -ACOSS Media Monitor fernando@acoss.org.au -Australian Domestic and Family Violence
Clearinghouse -Australian Institute of Family
Studies -The National Tenant Support Network
(National TSN) Email to subscribe |
RESOURCES ABC
iview 6202.0 - Labour Force, Australia,
Feb 2012 Fair-Go should be extended to
people on income support who are living in poverty Submission in response to the Fair
Work Act
Review Background Paper Submission to Consolidation of
Commonwealth Anti-Discrimination Laws Discussion Paper Age discrimination: A waste of
human resources Harder for rural women to access
DV services Creation of position a boost to
multicultural policy Multi-generation households in
Australian cities (Essay) Children’s exposure to domestic
violence in Australia The many facets of shame in
intimate partner sexual violence Life around here: Community, work
and family life in three Australian communities Cancer incidence projections,
Australia 2011 to 2020 Family Violence and Commonwealth
Laws Report Position Paper on Homelessness of
Asylum Seekers Living in the Community Destitute and Uncertain: the
reality of seeking asylum in Australia AUDIO Eradicating
Poverty White
Ribbon: Constructions of masculinity Natural
disasters increase violence against women Books
for Free Australian Homelessness Clearinghouse BLOG 12 Great Online Fundraising
Platforms for Donors and NonProfits CMY’s Sector Development and
Policy team has produced a series of five Good Practice Guides IWD MR: Women and Children Need Rapid
Rehousing A guide to Australian Government
payments Education
Tax Refund The Education Tax Refund provides up to 50% back on
a range of children's education expenses FACEBOOK Homeless No More (Aus) Homeless Directions
(Aus) Equal Opportunity for Women in the
Workplace Amendment Bill 2012 Another European Parliament Call
for an EU Homelessness Strategy: When Will EU Action Come? A New Ten Year Plan for Mental
Health PDF printable version of A New Ten Year Plan for Mental Health (PDF
17 KB) Multiple Exclusion Homelessness Homing in on female homelessness
on Homeless
Hub (Can) Working with the private rented
sector No Safe Place to Go - LGBTQ Youth
Homelessness in Canada: Reviewing the Literature Flick’s Housing & Homelessness
Blog Sydney Women’s Fund:
Background paper 4: Women and
housing in Greater Sydney National Alliance to End Homelessness
(USA) The State of Homelessness in
America 2012 The Emergency Solutions Grant,
Recommendations From The Alliance National Coalition for the Homeless (USA) Hate Crimes against the Homeless All babies count: prevention and
protection for vulnerable babies Mental Health and Work, Sick on
the Job? Myths and Realities about Mental Health and Work Equity and Quality in Education -
Supporting Disadvantaged Students and Schools Create Your Better Life Index, an
interactive website Divided We Stand: Why Inequality
Keeps Rising Parity
2012 Parity publication
commences in April: Philanthropic,
Corporate and Private Sector Responses to Homelessness edition.
May edition is on: Policing Homelessness. Contact
Noel Murray: parity@chp.org.au
Back issues. Productivity Commission Regulatory Impact Analysis:
Benchmarking For organisations: election media
kit Relationships key to creating
sustainable opportunities SBS Shelter
NSW Dwelling with visual and acoustic
privacy SOCIAL
MEDIA How
to be Ethical in Social Media Australian BusinessWomen’s Network Claire Wardle on Social Media, 10
February. The
BIG ISSUE The
Sydney Women’s Fund Portrait of Women & Girls in
Greater Sydney The Treasury (Aus) Discussion Paper - Charitable
Fundraising Regulation Reform UNICEF UNICEF launches 'The State of the
World's Children 2012' The eight Millennium Development Goals Progress of the World’s Women,
factsheet USICH
(USA) Victorian Homelessness Action Plan
2011-2015 VIDEO/FILM
Porter County Plan to End Homelessness Rough sleeping on the bendy bus
WEBSITES
etc POSITIONS VACANT Housing & Homelessness
Services jobs in Australia Part-time GPs required
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providing health services to the homeless and marginalised. For further
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