Inner City Homelessness Outreach and Support Service (I-CHOSS)
The Inner City Homelessness Outreach and Support Service (I-CHOSS) was set up in 2006 to provide outreach services to homeless people who are rough sleeping within the City of Sydney local government areas. I-CHOSS is delivered by a consortium of Mission Australia and The Haymarket Foundation and is jointly funded by the City of Sydney and Housing NSW with brokerage funding provided by the NSW Department of Community Services.
The aim of the service is to provide outreach and support services to homeless people that will enable them to access appropriate services and long term accommodation options.
Colony Outreach Support Services – COSS
The Colony Outreach Support Service supports individuals and families who are homeless or at risk of homelessness in Tasmania.
Funded by the State Government through the National Affordable Housing Agreement (NAHA), COSS provides a wide range of accommodation support services which are tailored to meet specific client needs.
Their practice is centred on identifying the strengths and resources in a person’s life and building on them as they work together towards achieving the best possible outcomes.
Open Family Australia Mobile Youth Outreach
Open Family Australia provides a range of outreach support and services such as housing, health, drug and alcohol programs, family counselling, legal services, re-engagement back into school, and assisting young people to find suitable work to young people experiencing high complex needs. Their client group is young people aged between 12 and 25.
Open Family Australia’s Mobile Youth Outreach provides direct outreach support and services to young people frequenting the streets. The service is nicknamed Chatterbox and is conducted in Melbourne and Sydney.
The Chatterbox provides street frequenting youth with services including the distribution of food and drinks, clothing and blankets, as well as providing referrals to service providers, counselling and supplying health and welfare information. In addition, each service has wireless internet facilities and computers. Outreach workers are also available to link in with the volunteers to ensure a responsive service when clients need ongoing intensive support.
Open Family Australia, in partnership with Goodman Fielder, has also established a mobile food service called NOSH in Sydney’s Western suburbs. NOSH (Nutrition, Outreach, Support and Health) provides nutritious evening meals to the region’s at risk and homeless youth three nights a week.
NOSH incorporates a nurse to provide basic first aid and health advice as well as a counsellor to assist young people with drug and alcohol counselling.
The NOSH Program operates alongside the Sydney Chatterbox Bus as a health and wellbeing service providing nutritional healthy food options for young people at risk of homelessness.
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