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Rough Sleeping In Tasmania: Homeless Not Helpless
Rough Sleeping In Tasmania: Homeless Not Helpless
Thursday, July 17, 2014: 9:45 AM
Room: 313+314
Distributed Paper
This paper provides a brief outline of the activities, outcomes and partnerships involved in the Rough Sleepers project in Hobart, Tasmania. In 2011 The Salvation Army (Tasmania) agreed to work with Common Ground Tasmania and a number of other NGOs to implement a campaign to address rough sleeping, which they called the 50 Lives/50 Homes (aka 50/50 campaign).
The broad objective of the campaign was to generate business, community, and government support for rough sleepers to enable a coordinated response to homelessness in the Greater Hobart area. The aim of the Hobart campaign was to identify and respond to the needs of ‘rough sleepers’ in the Hobart area who were susceptible to dying prematurely due to the poor health outcomes caused by sleeping rough. The campaign involved three stages; the planning stage; the street survey (or count); and the follow up of rough sleepers by a homeless response group, which was comprised of non-government and government support, health and housing services.