Sacred Heart Mission applauds the Victorian Government on the undertaking of the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System and welcomes the opportunity to provide a formal submission.

Sacred Heart Mission welcomes the Victorian Government’s commitment to extend successful homelessness programs, while expressing concern that more needs to be done to address homelessness.

Sacred Heart Mission has expressed its disappointment that the Federal Budget 2019-20 continues to ignore Australians experiencing chronic disadvantage and homelessness.

Homelessness has reached crisis point in Australia. We need as many voices as possible so all sides of Federal Government know this is an issue we cannot afford to ignore.

Our vision is to end chronic homelessness by making our Journey to Social Inclusion (J2SI) program available to homelessness services organisations nationally, via the J2SI Evaluation Learning Centre (J2SI ELC).

Right now, the rate of homelessness is the highest it has ever been. Almost 25,000 Victorians are without a home, including 726 people in the seat of Albert Park and 417 people in the seat of Prahran.

Sacred Heart Mission echoes the concerns of Homelessness Australia (HA) in response to the Federal Budget 2018-19 released last night.

Sacred Heart Mission welcomes new funding announced in today’s State Budget for a range of services addressing the needs of the community’s most vulnerable people.