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Volume VIII, Issue 1, October 2007

Brisbane's Homeless Connect Initiative


Feature Articles
By Carlton Meyn

Homeless Connect is an initiative of the Brisbane City Council (Australia) to put over 300 homeless persons in contact with various service providers from housing, medical and legal organizations. This comprehensive one-day effort, staged in City Hall, also links service providers within the homeless sector. Volunteering Queensland has twice recruited and trained over 200 volunteers to provide one-to-one support to the homeless participants, clearly an enormous undertaking that ensured the success of Homeless Connect in 2006 and 2007.  This article explains how Volunteering Queensland accomplished this task.

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Comments

Susan Ellis, President, Energize, Inc., Pennsylvania PA USA

November 2nd, 2007, 7:45am

Carlton Meyn has just let us know that a YouTube video of the most recent Homeless Connect Day has been posted online. Go to http://www.volqld.org.au/events_networks/homeless_connect.shtml and scroll down the page to the video screen.

Margaret O. Kirk, Managing Editor, e-Volunteerism

February 24th, 2008, 2:51pm

I found an article about "Project Homeless Connect" in Philadelphia, which is part of a national effort in the United States. Read about the Philadelphia day-long event at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/20071205_Connecting_with_the_needy.html?adString=ph.news/local;!category=local;&randomOrd=022608051043.