Sacred Heart Mission - a Journey to Social Inclusion
Housing Choices actively seeks opportunities to partner with support organisations to enhance housing stability and to increase affordable housing and quality services where it can make a difference in people’s lives.
Housing Choices’ partnership with Sacred Heart Mission’s Journey to Social Inclusion (J2SI) Mark II program commenced in December 2015. This follows the success of the J2SI pilot program, which ran from 2009 to 2012. The program focuses on the underlying causes of a person’s homelessness, equipping them with the skills to reconnect to the mainstream community, and to build social networks outside of the homeless subculture. The second phase is being delivered in areas that experience high and chronic homelessness. The aim of this partnership is to deliver tenancy management and intensive support services to enhance housing stability for people who are chronically homeless. This collaboration, in providing rapid-access housing pathways to long-term affordable housing with Sacred Heart Mission’s intensive case-management support, aims to increase security and stability and to improve the wellbeing of those experiencing chronic homelessness through a sustainable tenancy approach. To date five people experiencing chronic homelessness have found stable accommodation with Housing Choices. Anna Paris, Manager of Journey to Social Inclusion, said “It has been very positive to work in partnership with HCA this year to progress our shared aim of sustained housing for J2SI participants, with five people already rapidly housed in properties that have great amenity and good locations. It has been really helpful to work with HCA staff who we have found to be open, collaborative, and proactive in communication with us to assist with early intervention and prevention of any tenancy concerns that may arise.” The provision of access to long-term affordable housing and support delivers a partnership that provides the chronically homeless with housing stability both now and into the future.
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ANNUAL REPORT 2015–16
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