2022-10-31
Minister for Homelessness Rebecca Vassarotti released the ACT’s Strategic Investment Plan for the Homelessness sector, marking a milestone in a new approach to designing and funding homelessness services in the ACT.
This new approach will see Government trusting and supporting the sector to create a response system that is more flexible, responsive, and culturally appropriate to new and emerging needs.
This plan places trust back into the sector and community to tell us what needs to happen to make homelessness in Canberra rare, brief and non-recurring. It builds on our learnings and successes that came out of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Homelessness can be solved. It will take time, but through genuine commitment and co-design with those on the frontline of support and those who have lived experience, we will fund initiatives that will truly address the complexity of homelessness.
Under the Parliamentary and Governing Agreement, the Government will invest a further $18 million over four years to expand the capacity of specialist homelessness services. This funding has enabled these initiatives to continue or be expanded through to 30 June 2023. This approach will provide time to undertake the co-design process so we can fund services that will better address homelessness in the ACT.
Read the Homelessness Strategic Investment Plan as well as the OneLink Evaluation Report: www.communityservices.act.gov.au/commissioning/sectors-in-progress/homelessness-services .
Read the full media release: https://www.cmtedd.act.gov.au/open_government/inform/act_government_media_releases/vassarotti/2022/new-strategic-plan-to-end-homelessness-in-the-act