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Youth Homelessness Strategy
From Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
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The Youth Homelessness Strategy is a 3-year strategy working towards ending homelessness for young people aged 18-24 through:
- prevention and exits
- improving the experience of young people accessing emergency accommodation.
This Strategy adopts a whole-of-Government approach to tackling youth homelessness. It brings together a multitude of key stakeholders. These stakeholders will play a vital role in addressing fundamental issues in youth homelessness.
Informing the entire approach to this Strategy is a recognition of the critical importance of interagency supports. These supports are required to address the complex combination of social, health and economic needs of young people experiencing or at risk of experiencing homelessness.
The Strategy contains three main strategic aims:
- To prevent young people from entering homelessness
- To improve the experiences of young people accessing emergency accommodation
- To assist young people exiting homelessness.
The Strategy identifies certain groups within the 18-24 age group who are particularly at risk of becoming homeless, and are disproportionately represented in the young homeless population.
The Strategy includes specific actions to help each of these vulnerable groups. In total, the Youth Homelessness Strategy contains 27 distinct actions aimed at young people who are experiencing or at risk of experiencing homelessness.
