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                    Ending homelessness

                    Ending homelessness is a priority for the City of Melbourne.

                    Through our special entity, Homes Melbourne, we are working with partners to deliver 6000 affordable homes and help end homelessness in our city.

                    We work across the entire housing spectrum to help people who are rough sleeping to move into short-term, supported housing while increasing long-term affordable rental housing and affordable housing.

                    Our work to prevent and help end homelessness

                    • Our daily support team links people sleeping rough to support services, health and housing to find permanent pathways out of homelessness.
                    • We convene the Melbourne Service Coordination Project, which brings together Homes Victoria and 14 agencies working with people sleeping rough.
                    • We lead the ‘By Name List’, which gathers data about homelessness and links people to the support they need and ultimately into permanent housing.
                    • We have Australia’s first dedicated Library Social Worker to provide support and referrals to people experiencing homelessness.
                    • We partner with and fund organisations to prevent homelessness and support people at risk of homelessness:
                      • Salvation Army Melbourne Project 614 – provides support by supplying meals, clothing and counselling and working with clients to help create pathways out of their current state of marginalisation.
                      • Melbourne City Mission Frontyard Youth Services – a specialist youth service located in Melbourne’s CBD. Young people can find emergency accommodation, get quality case management from staff and access a range of co-located and visiting services. The team supports young people to meet their physical, emotional and social needs and develop pathways out of homelessness.
                      • cohealth Central City Community Health Service – a holistic health service for people experiencing homelessness in the CBD. cohealth provides dietitian services, drug and alcohol counselling, homelessness allied health, homelessness mental health service and homelessness support services. It is underpinned by a human rights framework and trauma-informed practice.
                      • Salvation Army Youth Street Teams – volunteers who connect with intoxicated young people who have become separated from their friends and vulnerable to potential assault, abuse. The team operates on Friday and Saturday nights between 10pm and 5am.

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