Country: Australia

  • EVALUATION: Findings from the 50 LIVES 50 HOMES Program – Zero Project, Perth, Australia

    The 50 Lives 50 Homes program (50 Lives), which commenced in late-2015 and was the first Housing First program in Western Australia (WA). It was a collaborative program that...

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    Category: | EvaluationHousing First

    • Homelessness Australia

    Homelessness Australia is the national peak body for homelessness in Australia. We provide systemic advocacy for the homelessness sector. We work with a large network of organisations to provide a unified voice when it comes to preventing and responding to homelessness. Our vision is to proactively advocate and promote national policy and action to end […]

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    Housing, homelessness and mental health: towards systems change

    This research progresses the priority areas identified by the National Mental Health Commission (Commission) and provides evidence about the systemic issues and policy levers that need to be addressed...

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    Category: | HomelessnessHousing FirstMental Illness
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    A home but how to connect with others? A qualitative meta‐synthesis of experiences of people with mental illness living in supported housing

    This study looks into how living in supported housing facilitate social connections and participation from the viewpoints of people living with mental illness. The findings show that supported housing...

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    Category: | Mental Illness
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    A health and social cost too high

    This report represents the first analysis of the consolidated Registry Week data across Australia. The data provides the largest and richest collection of information on people experiencing homelessness in...

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    Category: | Homelessness
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    A place to call home: study protocol for a longitudinal, mixed methods evaluation of two housing first adaptations in Sydney, Australia

    The aim os this study was to determine whether two Housing First configurations (scattered site  versus congregated site ) are associated with different health-related outcomes. https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-015-1700-y

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    Category: | Housing First
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    What drives the high health care costs of the homeless?

    This research provides a significant economic argument for government intervention to break the cycle of homelessness as the findings reveal significant potential savings to effective interventions for homeless people...

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    Category: | Costs of HomelessnessHomelessnessMental Illness
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    First examination of varying health outcomes of the chronically homeless according to Housing First configuration

    Health-related outcomes of two Housing First configurations (scattered site versus congregated site) were compared

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    Category: | EvaluationHousing First