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The Preliminary program is now available. Please note this is subject to change without notice and you should check back regularly to ensure you have the most recent program.
Conference Session Times:
Wednesday 1 September - Pre Conference workshops (Please note there is no catering on Wednesday)
9:00 - 11:00
Mezzanine Room 1 - FaHCSIA Quality Systems
Mezzanine Room 2 - A Thousand Good Reasons
Mezzanine Room 3 - Indigenous Workshop
11:30 - 1:30
Mezzanine Room 1 - Homelessness Awareness Training
Mezzanine Room 2 - Research
Mezzanine Room 3 - Culturally and Linguistically Diverse
2:00 - 4:00
Mezzanine Room 1 - National Coalition of Youth Homelessness
Mezzanine Room 2 - Older People - The Unlikely Homeless
Mezzanine Room 3 - Wesnet
Thursday 2 September
The conference commences at 8:30am and finish at 5:00pm
Friday 3 September
The conference commences at 9:00am and finishes at 4:30pm
Pre-Conference Workshops - 1 September
These are two hour workshops which are available to all delegates. Please note numbers are limited to the capacity of the room and your first preference may not be available.
These pre-conference workshop admission is included as part of your registration. However there will be NO catering available. Delegates are responsible for their own food on Wednesday only. Tea and Coffee will be available.
Additional information on each pre-conference workshop will be made available as they are finalised.
09:00 - 11:00
FaHCSIA - Quality Systems
This session will look at a number of existing systems that are in place across Australia to encourage quality service provision in the homelessness sector. It will also include an update on the development of the National Quality Framework and feedback from the stage one consultations which were held earlier this year.
Presenter is Ms Julie Baracz, Section Manager, Quality and Legislation’ Homelessness Implementation Branch
For further information on this workshop, please contact FaHCSIA directly at
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A Thousand Good Reasons - Early intervention and socially excluded young people
Presented by the Lord Mayors Charitable Foundation and Youth Development Australia
The idea that it is better to intervene early to help young people before problems have become entrenched has become a strong argument in the Australian social policy debate.
Between 80 and 85 per cent of young Victorians intend to complete schooling to Year 12 and beyond and succeed in doing so. These young people feel valued and cope well with the issues of passage through adolescence. They have support networks of family and friends around them.
However, not all young people are born into supportive and loving families. Families breakdown; sexual and physical abuse occurs; a significant minority of young people do not complete secondary school to Year 12; some young people experience the onset of mental health issues or become involved in substance use and abuse.
Then there are young people, some 7000 young people aged from 12 to 24 years of age who are homeless each night according to the 2006 census. During the year, 5,700 young people aged 15-19 years and 5650 young adults aged 20-24 passed through homelessness services. At any one time there are 3000 young people under care and protection orders.
Every year, 13,000 young Victorians receive treatment from specialist mental health services. In 2005, 57 young people in Victoria committed suicide. Some 9,000 young people have received support from specialist alcohol and other drug service in Victoria.
Young people assisted early have a much greater likelihood of recovering from their problems and avoiding further harmful consequences.
A thousand good reasons: Early Intervention and Socially Excluded Young People is a series of events presented by Youth Development Australia and supported by the Lord Mayors Charitable Foundation that seeks to bring experts and service providers together to positively influence our collective thinking about how to best address youth disadvantage and marginalisation.
The Homeleness Australia Pre-Conference Workshop will ask….
- What does early intervention mean in practice?
- Can we identify common principles for early intervention for young people that make sense across service systems and program areas?
- How can early intervention be coordinated so that young people and their needs are central?
- What do we each need to do to move the early intervention policy discussion from rhetoric to reality?
- What would a community approach to early intervention look like?
For further information on this workshop, please contact Janet Jukes at Youth Development Australia directly at
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11:30 - 1:30
City of Port Phillip - ‘Homelessness awareness’ training workshop
In collaboration with Council to Homeless Persons and Inner South Community Health Services City of Port Phillip has recently developed a homelessness awareness training package for staff. This was a recommendation in both the City of Port Phillip’s Housing Strategy 2007 and Homelessness Action Strategy 2008-2013.
This training identifies that staff across Council work in a diverse range of areas which can engage them in responding to homelessness in different ways, for eg community development, customer service through to town planning or administering local laws.
The workshop will involve a discussion of how City of Port Phillip developed the training and provides an overview of the material presented by Council to Homeless Persons Peer Educators. There will be an interactive discussion with Conference delegates about how to develop and promote similar training material in their workplaces.
The workshop could have broad appeal, particularly for Conference delegates looking for strategies to engage with mainstream services whose work brings them into contact with people experiencing homelessness.
For further information on this workshop, please contact Kate Incerti at the City of Port Phillip directly at
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2:00 - 4:00
Council for Homeless Person's Australia - Older People – The Unlikely Homeless?
The tragedy of older people who are homeless is a blight on Australian society.
What is missing in the current discussions of housing and homelessness is how to respond to the challenges of an ageing population.
The Council for Homeless Person’s Australia (CHPA) believes that this is a significant gap within the policy framework both in Government, Non Government and Peak Organisations. The voices of older people who are experiencing homelessness are rarely heard.
Come and listen to a group of experts share their thinking on key issues such as:
- the siloing of services and its impact on delivery of services to older people
- the role of gender in risk of homelessness for older people
- the power of definitions – does a focus on rough sleepers deny the reality of homelessness for many older people?
- the impact of affordable housing supply and universal design
- the impact of service design to effectively respond to the ageing process
- the impact on mainstream services of under resourcing services and housing for older people
Join in the discussion and debate to help form key policy positions for strong advocacy over the coming months and years to better meet the needs of older people.
For further information on this workshop, please contact Lynne Evans, CHPA directly at
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