END STREET SLEEPING COLLABORATION
End Street Sleeping Collaboration is a collective impact initiative whose goal is to halve rough sleeping across NSW by 2025 and work towards ending it by 2030. The Collaboration involves governments, non-government organisations, philanthropists, businesses and the community, all of whom are committed to a vision that no person should sleep on the streets in NSW. PAYCE Foundation support The PAYCE Foundation is the founding philanthropic partner providing funding to run the critical programs the End Street Sleeping Collaboration is rolling out in Sydney and across the state. It has been a particularly challenging year for people living without a roof over their heads, with the added displacement and isolation caused by this year’s long COVID-19 lockdown. COVID-19 has disrupted so much of modern life, but the pandemic has not made life on the streets any easier for Sydney’s homeless. People sleeping on the streets die years before they should. They suffer illnesses that many in the wider community never experience. They are also among the most vulnerable people in our society and are more likely to experience violence and discrimination. Less than two years since its inception, the End Street Sleeping Collaboration is making notable inroads in reducing the number of people sleeping rough. The PAYCE Foundation, with its commitment to the most disadvantaged in our community, signed on as the Collaboration’s founding philanthropic partner in late 2019. The major stumbling block in tackling street sleeping is delivering a sustainable housing solution for rough sleepers without critical information. In 2019, the Collaboration partnered with Microsoft to develop the By-Name List. The list is a real-time database that is shared by frontline service providers to access information they need to provide sustainable housing and support services to people experiencing homelessness – without the person needing to retell their story. PAYCE Foundation Director Dominic Sullivan said the By-Name List project had proved an excellent tool in the campaign to provide direct support to homeless people. “The By-Name List has been a critical component in the rollout of the successful Together Home Program this year,” Mr Sullivan said. “In 2020-21, the program provided for 800 packages of housing and support services for people who were sleeping rough or in temporary accommodation during the COVID-19 pandemic.” Newly appointed End Street Sleeping Collaboration CEO GrahamWest said the Collaboration+Data strategy was being rolled out more widely across NSW. “No one needs to experience chronic homelessness,’’ Mr West said. “The system can be changed at all levels, and together, we are committed to making that happen. I would like to thank the PAYCE Foundation for their support, not just financially, but also its staff who are playing a vital role in helping us achieve our objectives.’’
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