Department of Human Services

Consultations in Consultations in partnershippartnership

Locating the voices of rural young people experiencing homelessness in the ongoing development of service delivery

Denise O’Dowd, Jax Roan & Mandy Willey

OverviOverviewew

Grampians Region

Methodology

The voices of young people experiencing homelessness

Common Themes

Next steps

Reflections & Questions

Grampians Grampians RegionRegion

Wimmera River

Farming in the drought

Lake Daylesford Ballarat City

Horsham

NhillSt Arnaud

StawellArarat Daylesford

BallaratBacchus Marsh

Melbourne

MethodolMethodologyogy

•Model development

•Group locations

•Recruitment of participants

•Facilitators roles

The Voices of young The Voices of young people experiencing people experiencing

homelessness homelessness Activity: Focus Group re-enactment

“...If you don’t go by my individual needs you’re not going to meet you’re duty of care...”

Youth Participant

CommonCommon ThemesThemes

•Homelessness Service Access

•Lack of affordable housing

•Youth needs

•Direct Service Delivery

•Supported housing/THM

•Office of Housing

•Mainstream Services

Next Next StepsSteps

•Opening Doors project

•Grampians Homelessness Networker

•Grampians Youth Homelessness Service Coordination project

Reflections & Reflections & QuestionsQuestions

“...we didn’t talk about drugs & sex & stuff like that, something more important...”

Youth Participant