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9 September 2011

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AWARDS

Equator Prize 2012

The Equator Initiative is pleased to announce the call for nominations for the Equator Prize 2012, which will recognize 25 outstanding local initiatives that are working to advance sustainable development solutions for people, nature and resilient communities. Nominations close 31 October 2011. Video on You Tube. Prize website.

 

BOOK

A Different Inequality
The politics of debate about remote Aboriginal Australia by Diane Austin-Broos. To view and purchase.

 

Managing the Undesirables
By Michel Agier Polity, $37.95. See article from Inside Story.

 

CAMPAIGN

Say NO – UNiTE to End Violence against Women is a global call for action

 

Walk for Youth Homelessness

Phil and Anne Standen will be walking from 12 September to 13  October, along the Camino de Santiago, a pilgrimage walk in Spain, and will raise funds along the way for Queensland Youth Housing Coalition. Walk and QYHC website.

 

Cycle 4 Life

In September Philippa Seldon will cycle close to 1600km from Canberra to Brisbane generating awareness of suicide prevention whilst raising vital funds for Lifeline. Campaign website.

 

Build Communities Not Prisons

A campaign supported by people who believe that building more prisons and sending more people to prison is not the best way to improve community safety. Website.

 

Campout

Not for profit camp for LGBTIQ teens needs your support to make 2011 camp fabulous!! Website.

 

Depression Awareness and Suicide Prevention

Starting September 2012

This is a campaign walk around Australia to raise awareness of depression and help prevent suicide. Campaign website.

 

Every Australian Counts

Every Australian Counts is the campaign for the introduction of a National Disability Insurance Scheme. The National Disability Insurance Scheme will revolutionise the way people with a disability, their families and carers are supported in this country. Campaign website.

 

End Youth Homelessness

Virgin Unite also has a national petition running on their website http://endyouthhomelessness.com.au/ and we are encouraging as many people as possible to join.

 

GRANTS

Grants to End Homelessness

The Mercy Foundation Grants to End Homelessness are available for initiatives, services, projects and research that will contribute to the goal of ending homelessness.  EOIs are due in by September 30. Follow this link to read more about our Grants to End Homelessness and download an EOI form.

 

LISTEN

Nowhere to live

Rents are rising even in country towns, and more people are forced into caravan parks, the back rooms of old pubs - or the river bank - even with young children. It can happen to anyone. It will get worse. Various attempts to create more places for people to live at cheap rent are not meeting the need. Background Briefing, 4 September.

 

Shrinking homes and tiny houses

For decades houses have been getting bigger: we've all heard of McMansions. But are things changing? Whether driven by economic or environmental factors it seems there's a new move towards smaller houses -- and some of them are really tiny! Future Tense, 8 September.

 

Suicide Rates in Northern Territory highest in Australia

New studies show that the Northern Territory has the highest  rate  of suicide than anywhere else in Australia. Head of Corporate Affairs at Headspace Elizabeth Tucky speaks about mental health and wellbeing. Headspace in Alice Springs  is a confidential  service that provides people aged 12 to 25 a safe place to meet and  speak with  either a councillor or other health  professional. On CAAMA, 6 September.

 

Meet the new Race Discrimination Commissioner

Australia's new Race Discrimination Commissioner, Dr Helen Szoke, started in the job this week. Life Matters, 8 September.

 

Family breakdown and the impact on

children Life Matters, 7 September.

 

The ethical treatment of depression: Dr Paul Biegler Life Matters, 7 September.

 

Child neglect

Child neglect is one of the most pervasive forms of child abuse and the impacts on children and their families can be severe and long lasting. Life Matters, 5 September.

 

Young people online: are we messing with their minds?

Many parents say they're worried about what their children might be doing on the internet. A panel of researchers and mental health experts put their concerns into perspective. Life Matters, 1 September.

 

MEMBERSHIP

HA Membership time! Renew or join us...

Homelessness Australia invites you to read our brochure and think about becoming a member.

 

POSITIONS VACANT

Housing & Homelessness Services jobs in Australia

 

CREATE Foundation

Positions Currently Available

 

Part-time GPs required (ongoing)

Mobile GP is a non-government agency providing health services to the homeless and marginalised. Work in a fully accredited mobile practice, be supported by a nurse in a 1:1 ratio and also have the back-up of a mental health nurse. If you are interested in the homeless, chronic disease, Aboriginal medicine, mental health, youth health and patients with addiction, Mobile GP would love to have you on their team. For further information, please call Stephanie Dunstan on 0457 925 357 or email steph.dunstan@mobilegp.org.au

 

SCHOLARSHIPS

The Charlie Perkins Scholarships

Two annual postgraduate scholarships will allow talented Indigenous Australians to study at the University of Oxford for up to three years. Applications for the 2012-2013 Charlie Perkins Scholarships will open Monday 15 August 2011 and will close Friday 14 October 2011. Scholarship website.

 

SOCIAL MEDIA

5 Tips for Sparking a Grassroots Movement Online from Mashable

 

BLOGS

How to Make TANF Work Better for Homeless Families (USA)

 

It’s madness: the incarceration of disabled homeless people in the US

 

Met a Homeless Man As I Came Out Of The Station (USA)

 

VCOSS Voice

How to solve a housing crisis (or at least where to start)

 

The Blackfullas Daily

 

The Disabled World Daily

 

The Non-for profit Daily

 

Sex trafficking and homeless youth

 

Abe Oudshoorn's Blog (Can)

 

YFoundations (Youth homelessness AUS)

 

The homelessness-advocate Daily (INT)

 

The Indigenous and Remote Daily (Aus)

 

The #ausyouth Daily (Aus)

 

An International Effort to End Homelessness

National Alliance to End Homelessness

 

EMAIL

5 Email Invitation Tips that Get Attendees to Your Events

 

FACEBOOK

Home For Good (USA)

 

LINKED IN

Making LinkedIn Work for You

 

TWITTER

Twitter in Plain English

From  http://commoncraft.com  a quick and plain English intro the micro-blogging service Twitter on You Tube.

 

SURVEY

Employment Action for Cultural Diversity

is conducting a survey of service providers in Qld who work with CALD women from new and emerging communities to explore their experiences and observations in supporting women to obtain employment. Survey closes 16 September 2011. Survey.

 

Queensland Shelter

A survey about the ongoing impacts of the natural disasters that affected Queensland at the start of this year. Survey.

 

VIDEO/FILM

Video: Impact on Heaven - It's about Housing People (AUS)

An exploration for Homeless Persons Week which confronts key issues in the international and Australian struggle to house and support the homeless. Encounter website.

 

Jason's drug addiction led him into homelessness (CAN)

 

Documentary: (Un)veiled: Muslim Women Talk About Hijab

 

Melbourne's Common Ground marks one year of safe housing for tenants (AUS)

 

Shelter shortage pushes homeless teens out (AUS)

 

Alice (AUS)

Youth Homelessness (YConnect)

 

Youth Homelessness (AUS)

Contains content from Channel 9 Australia.

 

Young Family Homelessness – the impacts (AUS)

 

Dementia Video of Childhood Memory of Being Forgotten

 

Beth's Story

 

VODCAST

Gambling reform & problem gambling awareness


WEBSITES

Social Enterprise

 

Top 50 Web Forums for Social Workers

 

33 Nonprofit Mobile Websites

 

Parenting Strategies (AUS)

Preventing Adolescent Alcohol Misuse.

 

Girraween High School: Hungry for Home (AUS)

Targeting the eradication of youth homelessness. Your help would be greatly appreciated in spreading the message and create a positive impact on youth homelessness.

 

THANKS to...

The journalists and media who write and report on the homelessness, housing and support sector.

 

The National Tenant Support Network (National TSN) is an independent, unincorporated not-for-profit initiative delivering a range of services to social and affordable rental housing stakeholders throughout Australia and New Zealand. Email to subscribe: TSN@thenexus.org.au

 

-Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse

-Australian Institute of Families

-Australian Policy Online

-Breakfast Politics

-Twitter and facebook just for existing!

 

NATIONAL

ACOSS and  Asylum seekers and refugees

ACOSS would like to thank the more than 500 signatories (and counting) to the statement calling for a new approach to Australia's asylum seeker policy following last week's historic High Court ruling.

 

Your enormous support and donations has enabled us to raise enough funds to place this statement along with well over 200 organisational signatories as a half page broadsheet ad in yesterday's Australian Newspaper (Thursday 8 September 2011). ACOSS.

 

Survey reveals parlous work-life juggling act

PIA Cerveri has found juggling family life and a career tricky. After working as a social worker and manager, she left to raise her son, and now she and her partner get by on one income. The Age, 7 September.

 

Youth mental illness linked to family breakdowns

The Australian Christian Lobby says the Federal Government must provide much more support for families amid rising levels of child neglect. ABC News, 6 September.

 

VAW affects us all

In a world full of acronyms 'VAW' is one that is not well known. It refers to events that impact the lives of millions of women every day, is one of the most widespread violations of human rights in the world, devastates communities, families and economies and in Australia alone will cost an estimated $15.6 billion in 2021-22. Online Opinion, 6 September.

 

Don't get starry-eyed about housing

During the Cold War reliable information about the inner workings of the Soviet leadership was hard to get, and so a new pseudo-scientific discipline emerged. SMH, 5 September.

 

Senator the Hon Mark Arbib

Latest media releases

 

The Hon Tanya Plibersek MP

Latest media releases

 

The Hon Kate Ellis MP

Latest media releases

 

DEEWR media releases

 

ACT

Older single women the new face of homeless

There will be a ''tsunami'' of older single women in housing stress in the years to come if the ''severe'' shortage of affordable housing in Australian is not addressed, experts say. The Canberra Times, 7 September.

 

NSW

NCOSS on NSW Budget

NSW Budget - For All Citizens

Welcomed Investments and Planning for the Future

 

Government commits to NSW infrastructure

A record investment in infrastructure will deliver the hospitals, transport, roads and housing that NSW desperately needs, the state government says. Sky News, 6 September.

 

NSW in the red, thousands of jobs to go

The New South Wales Government is taking the state's finances into deficit, despite promising an $8 billion cost-cutting plan that will slash 5,000 jobs from the public sector. ABC News, 6 September.

 

Single mother's struggle reveals some home truths

Gemma Lord thought she had reached rock bottom the day she went to the Department of Housing with her baby daughter to ask for special consideration. She was 20 and homeless, not yet living on the street, but fast running out of relatives and friends who could put them up. SMH, 5 September. Anglicare’s Home Truths.

 

ICAC urged to probe stalled housing projects

Stalled public housing projects on the Coffs coast have been referred to the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) and the state's auditor-general. ABC News, 5 September.

 

Concerns over Cooks Hill development

Changes to the design of a $31 million high rise development in Cooks Hill have failed to appease residents who say it's still too big for the suburb. ABC Newcastle, 5 September.

 

NT

New chance to cut re-offending

THE Territory Government believes it can reduce re-offending rates of prisoners in the Territory by 10 per cent with a new approach, including a work camp prison. NT News, 9 September.

 

Anderson denies deal in switch to Country Liberals

Former Northern Territory Labor Minister Alison Anderson insists no deals have been done with the Opposition Country Liberals in exchange for her support. ABC News, 8 September.

 

Qld

Homelessness blamed on mining boom

A community worker in the central Queensland town of Gladstone says an increasing number of people are resorting to living in their cars and in makeshift camps, because of a major hike in rental prices and a reduction in the number of available properties. ABC News, 6 September.

 

Red Cross 'night cafe' helps homeless youth

The Red Cross 'Night Cafe' has helped homeless youth in south-east Queensland for a decade. Watch on ABC News, 5 September.

 

Tas

Time to shed light on suicide

Tasmanians have been urged to talk more openly about suicide and look for warning signs to help stem the state's high rate of self-caused deaths. The Mercury, 9 September.

 

Volunteer helpers crisis

Declining volunteer numbers have local organisations fearful they may not have enough people to offer much-needed help to vulnerable members of the community. The Mercury, 9 September.

 

Call to fill mental health jobs

Fifty-seven positions in Tasmania's mental health sector sit vacant while a depleted front-line workforce, including locums, works overtime and costs the State Government millions of dollars. The Mercury, 8 September.

 

SA

Stop the bodgy count

The latest street count survey figures were released at the end of August this year alongside claims that homelessness had halved in South Australia . Shelter SA expressed concerns then that the street count clouds the truth about the real numbers of people who are homeless. Online Opinion, 7 September.

 

Shelter SA makes an urgent call upon Minister Rankine to stop street count of homeless people

 

Vic

Street to Home announces Registry Week 2011 to run in October

Melbourne Street to Home (MS2H) will run its second Registry Week from Monday 24 – Friday 28 October.  This will provide MS2H and the broader homelessness and housing sector with important information regarding the extent and types of vulnerability among people rough sleeping in inner-Melbourne. Information.

 

Victoria’s first Common Ground— One year on…

To mark the occasion, HomeGround has focused the latest quarterly update on the successes and challenges of the first year. HomeGround.

 

Court ruling blow to homeless

Victorians who believe their human rights have been violated by being evicted from public housing will now have to take their cases to the Supreme Court. 9 News, 6 September.

 

Slumlords operating without control

In the wake of a fire that destroyed a boarding house this week, the Metropolitan Fire Brigade slammed slumlords who operate dangerous rooming houses as callous and despicable after the Sunday night fire in Footscray that forced seven residents to evacuate. The Age, 6 September.

 

Waiting and hoping

Amina Aden is the human face of what is wrong with Victoria’s public housing waiting list. The Somali woman has been homeless since migrating to Melbourne in 2008 as a refugee, unable to secure public housing that can support her five children. Moonee Valley Leader, 5 September.

 

WA

Rally for the Rights of the Homeless

The Streeties - "we will not be moved on". Watch this footage from our encounter at State Parliament: Police Minister Rob Johnson speaks to our Homeless Folk: Youtube.

 

New hostel to accommodate 50 more homeless men

About 50 more homeless men will soon have shelter after the state government today announced the redevelopment of a hostel in Northbridge. SMH, 5 September.

 

INTERNATIONAL

CANADA

A Town Without Poverty?

Try to imagine a town where the government paid each of the residents a living income, regardless of who they were and what they did, and a Soviet hamlet in the early 1980s may come to mind. The Dominion, 5 September.

 

NZ

Housing NZ dodging a $650,000 question

OPINION: I read with interest Housing Corporation head Lesley McTurk's article about the Pomare evictions case (September 2) including her claim that the Human Rights Review Tribunal "found that Housing New Zealand did not discriminate against the three tenants". The Dominion Post, 7 September.

 

Housing NZ job cut plans causing stress – Labour

The Labour Party says planned about job cuts at Housing New Zealand are causing stress for staff and tenants. Radio New Zealand News, 4 September.

 

UK

Localism Bill: Lords to debate tenants complaint shake-up

The House of Lords heard an amendment to the Localism Bill which aims to preserve the right of tenants to complain about their social landlord directly to the Housing Ombudsman. 24 Dash, 7 September.

 

USA

Photos: Youth hunger and homelessness in Minnesota

Homeless youth in the state -- whether in shelters, couch hopping, or on the streets -- struggle to get enough to eat. Food shelves and meal programs offer help, but some youth have to use their own survival skills to get by. MPR News, 6 September.

 

Homeless patients pose unique problems for EMS

Treating homeless patients can present overwhelming challenges for EMS providers. EMS 1, 6 September.

 

Intermission: What It's Like to Be Gay in Rural America

We know gay people don't just live in big cities, and with societal acceptance on the rise, rural same-sex couples are coming out more and more. Stumble Upon, 2 September.

 

Homeless shelters swamped in Olympia: 'We're really alarmed'

"Alarming" is the word being used to describe a fast-growing homeless population in the state capital of Olympia. Komo News, 2 September.

 

Homelessness in The Huffington Post

 

WEEKS & DAYS

National Child Protection Week 4-11 September

 

Dementia Awareness Week 16-26 September

 

R U OK DAY? 15 September

 

International World Suicide Prevention Day 10 September, see AUS campaign Out of the Shadows

 

International Day of Older Persons, October 1

 

World Homeless Day 10/10/2011

 

Mental Health Week

Sunday 9 - Saturday 15 October

 

Anti-Poverty Week

This week was established in Australia as an expansion of the UN's annual International Anti-Poverty Day on October 17.

 

The main aims of Anti-Poverty Week are to:

    * strengthen public understanding of the causes and consequences of poverty and hardship around the world and in Australia;

    * encourage research, discussion and action to address these problems, including action by individuals, communities, organisations and governments. Click here for week website.

 

Global Launch of the International Year of Cooperatives (IYC)

31 October, United Nations Headquarters, New York

 

Social Inclusion Week 19 - 27 November

SIW website.

 

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 25 November

 

White Ribbon, (AUS) 25 November

 

PUBLICATIONS & RESEARCH

ABS

6530.0 - Household Expenditure Survey, Australia: Summary of Results, 2009-10  

 

ACOSS

ACOSS Australian Community Sector Survey 2011

 

ADFVC

Adolescent violence in the home: the missing link in family violence prevention and response, Howard J 2011

 

AIFS

Family Matters: Family resources, roles and responsibilities

 

AIHW

Pathways in aged care: do people follow recommendations?

 

ANGLICARE

State of Sydney 2011: Home Truths

Anglicare Sydney’s annual State of Sydney report for 2011 finds that housing insecurity is making more women socially excluded, with women the highest users of homelessness services.

 

Calgary Homeless Foundation

Plan to End Youth Homelessness

 

Council to Homeless Persons (Vic)

Inquiry into the opportunities for participation of Victorian seniors, August 2011

 

Equality Rights Alliance

Women’s Experience of Income

Management in the Northern Territory

 

FaHCSIA

Supported Accommodation Innovation Fund (SAIF)

Supported accommodation for people with disability

How much?

-$60 million has been committed over three years to build up to 150 new supported accommodation places for people with disability. 

Apply when?

-from 5/09/2011  to 20/01/2012

Who to contact?

- Email saif@fahcsia.gov.au or visit the SAIF website - http://www.saif.govspace.gov.au 

 

Filling the Gap

‘Filling the gap service model: integrated post crisis response for women and children who have experienced family violence’, Good Shepherd Youth & Family Service and McAuley Community Services for Women, Melbourne. Service Model.

 

Homelessness Australia

Sector Briefing: ABS Methodological Review of Counting the Homeless Position Paper
ABS Position Paper

 

National LGBTI Health Alliance

Mental Health & Suicide, by Gabi Rosenstreich

 

RMIT

Design Challenge 2011 on Homelessness

Each year the Design Research Institute's Design Challenge focuses on a different real and pressing issue, those which are too complex to be solved by one discipline or by one set of expertise. In 2011 the focus will be Homelessness. Challenge website or see flyer attached.

 

Sacred Heart Mission

Long-term Homelessness: Understanding the challenge

The first of four reports evaluating the Journey to Social Inclusion (J2SI) program. Report.

 

Shelter NSW

NSW housing factsheet

A quick guide to housing facts and figures

 

The Homeless Hub (Canada)

 

Vic Health

Precarious housing and health in three parts

 

WIPAN

No exit into homelessness Still a Dream? The Housing Needs of women leaving prison. Discussion Paper. How to make your voice heard?

The questions at the front of this paper are a guide only. You can answer the questions that interest you. We are also interested in your personal stories about how you found housing or stayed homeless. Deadline for submissions or comments: 25 November 2011. Email: info@wipan.net.au Website: http://www.wipan.net.au

Postal Address: PO Box 345 Broadway, NSW, 2007

 

TRAINING, SEMINARS, FORUMS, WORKSHOPS

VCOSS Clearinghouse Rural & Regional Training - Coming to a town near you in 2011!

 

Modern Award workshops

VCOSS is partnering with Jobs Australia to hold Modern Award workshops about the Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services Industry Award (SCHCADS) otherwise known as the Modern Award.

 

AIATSIS Seminar Series

Series 2, 2011: Housing and homelessness

This series will look at the broad scope of issues surrounding housing and homelessness for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Overcrowding, poor quality housing, low levels of home ownership, discrimination in the public housing system, homelessness, relationships to health, employment and education, are some of the issues facing Indigenous people in remote, regional and urban areas. Seminars.

 

Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Course Information

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health First Aid Course is designed as a 14 hour course. The course is designed to be conducted in 6 modules; however, the delivery format is flexible. Website.

 

AIFS seminar series presentation

Early Parenting Support for Vulnerable Families: Why, what and how?

10:00 am – 11:15 am, Tuesday 18 October 2011, AIFS Seminar Room, Melbourne Professor Jan M. Nicholson, Director of Research at the Parenting Research Centre. Please RSVP if you would like to attend this seminar

 

A Relationship Based Strengths Approach to Working with Youth

Newcastle Youth Accommodation Service Ltd is promoting a 'Relationship Based Strengths Approach to Working with Youth' workshop run by Canadian Stephen de Groot. The workshops are being run in: Gosford - 27 & 28 September, Newcastle – 29 & 30 September, Sydney – 6 & 7 October. Workshop website.

 

Commonwealth Youth Forum

The Australian Government is proud to be hosting the Commonwealth Youth Forum in Fremantle, Western Australia from Sunday 23 October to Thursday 27 October 2011. Forum website.

 

BSI Learning (BSIL)

A leading provider of Organisational and People Development Services and outsourced training solutions in Australasia.

 

Volunteering Victoria

Presents a series of workshops covering key aspects of managing successful volunteer programs. Training workshops.

 

EVENTS

SEPTEMBER

Social Housing Exhibition 2011, UK

The exhibition, which forms the focal point of the National Housing Federation's flagship Annual Conference, has grown considerably in recent years and offers delegates and visitors the chance to explore the latest innovations, products and services from over 100 exhibitors who supply and support the sector. Birmingham, 12 - 14 September. Exhibition website.

 

AHURI Improving housing affordability through tax reform: Australia and the UK in comparison

Thursday, Sydney, 15 September. Event website.

 

AWAVA is delivering a number of FREE community engagement events in remote and regional parts of Australia, to help support and promote the National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children.  The aim of these events is to provide an opportunity to share ideas with others in your community and consider options for violence prevention activities.  This will be done with a view to identifying realistic steps that can be taken by local communities to help reduce violence against women and their children.

 

First event is in Katherine NT, Thursday 15th September followed by events in Bendigo Victoria, Broome WA, Launceston TAS, and Wilcannia NSW. Please see details in the website www.awava.org.au.

 

European Research Conference

Homelessness, Migration and Demographic Change in Europe, Pisa, Italy, 16 September 2011. Conference website.

 

3rd Biennial (First National LGBTIQ Domestic Violence: Another Closet

Sydney, Friday 16th September 2011

 

Australian Teenage Expo

Be in the Know, Is a MASSIVE event for young people, which will include entertainment from some of Australia’s Hottest Acts. Prizes, Giveaways, Master-classes, Hip Hop/Breakdancing Comp, Stalls on Education, Services and a Heap of Awesome Products you NEED TO HAVE. Moonee Valley Race Club, Melbourne, 16 - 18 September. Website.

 

AIATSIS National Indigenous Studies Conference 2011

Young and old: connecting generations. 19 - 22 September, Canberra. Conference website.

 

OCTOBER

Site UnSeen

Site UnSeen will be the voicing of the unvoiced, the sight of the unseen, an event-packed exploration of everyday social exclusion with a special focus on homelessness. 6 -22 October, Theatre Works St Kilda.

 

Rooftop Charity Golf Day

Held on October 14, at the Gungahlin Lakes Golf Club, ACT, see flyer attached. Rooftop website.

 

Heart of Melbourne Ball by Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation

This spectacular event raises money for people experiencing homelessness throughout Victoria. Melbourne, 15 October. Event website.

 

First Annual Convention of the European Platform against Poverty and Social Exclusion

The Convention, to be organised on 17-18 October in Cracow, will review the progress made towards the headline target of reducing poverty and social exclusion by at least 20 million by 2020 and the implementation of the European Platform against Poverty. It will also debate suggestions for future actions. Convention website.

 

The National Drug Trends Conference

National Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour, Sydney, 8.45am - 5.00pm Monday 17 October. Conference website.

 

Making a Difference Conference 2011: Breaking through the Barriers

Industry experts from Australia and abroad will share information and ideas on meeting changing client needs and workforce development; supported by speakers who have themselves broken through the barriers either in their professional or personal life and at times in both.  Brisbane, 19 – 20 October. Conference website.

 

European Conference, Luxembourg City

This year's annual conference focuses on Quality in social services from the perspective of services working with homeless people 21 October 2011.

 

PR Directions 2011

An initiative of the Public Relations Institute of Australia (PRIA), PR Directions is the largest and most comprehensive event for public relations and corporate communication professionals in the region.  Sydney, 23 - 25 October. Conference website.

 

9th Asia / Oceania Congress of Geriatrics and Gerontology

“Ageing well together: Regional perspectives”,  Melbourne, 23 - 27 October. Conference website.

 

AHURI: Beyond the Current NAHA

What is next for Australian Housing Policy

This conference is timed to make a contribution to the review and reform process associated with developing a new NAHA and it will bring together 300 senior stakeholders, Melbourne, 27-28 October, event website.

 

NOVEMBER

Youth Health 2011: Its totally important!

Sydney , 9 - 11 November. Congress website.

 

Ride for Home

Melbourne’s most unique and exciting cycling event, and help support Hanover to Break the Cycle of Homelessness.  Melbourne, 13 November. Event website.

 

Growing Up in Australia and Footprints in Time

The LSAC and LSIC Research Conference: Findings from The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) and The Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC).  Melbourne, 15 - 16 November. Conference website.

 

LSAC and LSIC Research Conference

Growing Up in Australia and Footprints in time: The combined Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) and Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC) Research Conference will be held at Rydges on Swanston, Melbourne, 15 - 16 November. Conference website.

 

YFoundations: End Youth Homelessness 2011

YFoundations conference vision for the conference is "think global, act local". It will provide a key opportunity for Specialist Youth Homelessness Services, Mainstream Services, Government Officials, Advocates and Young People to develop networks and contacts throughout and beyond the sector.  Sydney, 22 - 24 November. Conference website.

 

Welfare in a growing economy

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare is proud to launch their flagship report Australia's welfare 2011 at a national conference in Canberra, 24 November. Conference website.

 

DECEMBER

Housing Affordability Congress

The Housing Affordability Congress provides a holistic analysis of issues encompassing housing affordability in the housing industry today.

Melbourne, 14 - 15 December. Conference.

 

Generation Next 2011 events

 

2012

Pathways to Housing & DESC Present the First:

Housing First Partners' Conference 2012

New Orleans, 21 - 23 March. Conference Website.

 

Homeless Persons Week 2012

Monday 6 August – Sunday 12 August

 

7th National Homelessness Conference

Making It Home: The Real Issues in Homelessness

Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre 5-7 September 2012. A website is currently being developed and details when available.

 

 

 

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