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ISSR UQ Homelessness Research Partnership Agreement with FaHCSIA

This project is designed to provide  evidence base research to inform service and practice responses to homeless and public-place dwelling Indigenous people,including rough sleepers.

It will involve identification and critical analysis of a number of different types of service responses to public-place dwelling and homeless Indigenous people in three selected regional centres, with a focus on those regional centres away from south-east Australia that have a majority or a major proportion of Indigenous people in their profile of homeless people (including those present in towns who come from remote settlements).

It will be based upon previous conceptual analysis on the distinctive nature of Indigenous homelessness, and will focus on the specialised service responses required to obtain effective outcomes for Indigenous people who are homeless. There will also be a particular emphasis on service integration and the significance of funding and policy models for collaborative service delivery. This will include analysis of the roles of Indigenous (specialist homelessness and mainstream) and non-Indigenous (specialist homelessness) organisations and factors promoting and impeding service integration.

    Aims: 
  • identification and critical analysis of a number of different types of service responses to public-place dwelling and homeless Indigenous people in three selected regional centres
    Outcomes: 
  • recommendations for changes to government policy
    Status: 
  • Complete
    Date: 
  • 2010 to 2013
Project Contacts
Partners & Funding Details
    Partners: 
  • ISSR
    Funding Body: 
  • Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
    Funding Amount: 
  • $1 300 000.00
    Publications: 
  • Memmott, P., Birdsall-Jones, C., and Greenop, K. 2012 “Why are special services needed to address Indigenous homelessness?”, Full Report, Dept of FaHCSIA, Canberra [sighted 31/07/12]
  • Memmott, P., Birdsall-Jones, C., and Greenop, K. 2012 “Why are special services needed to address Indigenous homelessness?”. Evidence Note No. 10, Dept of FaHCSIA, Canberra [sighted 20/11/12]