The Gadigal People of the Eora Nation

• A perspective on the Implementation of the White Paper – progress to targets
• The challenges of delivering national and state housing and homelessness agenda’s
• The development of evidence based approaches
• The need for new approaches and paradigms in service delivery

• Understanding what counts as good evidence
• How and where to collect it
• How to analyse the evidence

• Outlining the National Homelessness Research Agenda and key milestones
• Findings from research projects
• Concepts and tools practitioners can apply to end homelessness
• Food for thought for program evaluation

• Quantitative and qualitative studies on the effectiveness of ‘Housing First’ approaches – an 85% housing retention rate
• Transforming lives for people with mental health and addiction problems
• Research on community integration, social inclusion and recovery
• Cost studies showing significant savings from reduced service utilisation when implementing housing first programs

• Illustrating the cost of chronic homelessness
• The Common Ground model of PSH and research behind the Vulnerability Index
• Reducing the number of rough sleepers
• Illustrating how long term accommodation solves chronic homelessness

• The research and evidence base
• Designing an outcomes based framework
• A focus on prevention and early intervention
• Ensuring on-going evaluation of what works

• Evidence based new and improved services
• Outlining how 2009/10 projects were based on evidence and met core outputs of the NPAH
• Commonwealth funding into evidence based services
• Achieving sustainable change – additional investment in prevention services

• ‘Pathways’ Housing First Model – local context
• Outlining evidence base and outcomes from Way2Home
• Street to Home – assertive outreach model
• An overview of Way2Home and key learnings

• Focussing on conceptual questions and deciding what we want to evaluate
• Beyond individual programs and immediate impacts
• What evidence and what will it show?
• Evaluation – working with vulnerable people, multiple stakeholders and systems

• Successful examples of collaboration between organisations
• How to overcome common challenges with partnering
• Tried and tested models of successful integration:
• Joint ventures and consortia
• Shared services and pooled purchasing – Lead agency and sub-contracting

• Illustrating effective supports needed for permanent housing models
• Ensuring credible data to formulate effective partnerships
• Achieving positive outcomes for those experiencing chronic health and disability issues
• Reaching a 30% decrease in homelessness from the 50/50 campaign

• When is it homelessness, when is it mobility
• How to overcome challenges of developing appropriate service responses
• Lessons and future directions in working with Aboriginal mobility in SA

• Outlining what hasn’t worked in the past
• Illustrating the data collection methodology used to help increase access by Aboriginal people to the service system
• Wentworth Housing’s assertive outreach and tenancy support model used for Aboriginal tenants/clients
• Results from surveys on ‘quality of life outcomes’

• How correction’s ‘supportive transitional housing’ has increased sustainable livelihoods upon existing prison

• How collecting and utilising credible data lead to an effective central in-take service
• Enabling an accurate assessment of the homeless population in the ACT
• Improving referrals and emergency assistance through a service log-on portal
• Enabling transparency of where service delivery gaps lie

• Engaging people with serious and enduring mental illness in private rental in Victoria
• Increasing personalisation of services: Integrated support teams
• Increasing sustainability: using evidence based employment interventions
• Application in inner city, outer suburban and rural locations

• Illustrating effective ways to support families in crises
• Supporting organisations to implement evidence based approaches