Housing the homeless: Prevention and Response

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Following a previous webinar examining homeless persons services response to the pandemic this webinar seeks to understand:

  • What the outcomes are for those people housed under pandemic;
  • How homelessness may be prevented; and
  • Explore the Victorian Government’s housing policy Homes for Victorians: Affordability, access and choice.

Part 1 – What happened to population that was housed under COVID

Part 2 – How do we prevent homelessness

Part 3 – Special populations – women and corrections

Speakers:

  • Bevan Warner (CEO, Launch Housing)
  • Dr Jess Heerde (Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Paediatrics (Melbourne Medical School), Research Fellow (Westpac Scholars Trust) and Honorary Research Fellow (Centre for Adolecent Health, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute).
  • Elisa Buggy (CEO, Flat Out)
  • Chair: Miriam Suss OAM