Was this the Target Group - Australian Homelessness ：这一目标群体-澳大利亚无家可归.docxVIP

PAGE PAGE 2Evaluation of the Melbourne Street to Home program:Baseline ReportGuy JohnsonChris ChamberlainRMIT UniversityA report prepared for the Australian Government Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs,HomeGround Services,Salvation Army Crisis Services, Salvation Army Adult Services and the Royal District Nursing Service Homeless Persons’ ProgramApril 2012 CONTENTS TOC \o 1-1 \h \z \u HYPERLINK \l _Toc321330480 Executive summary PAGEREF _Toc321330480 \h 3 HYPERLINK \l _Toc321330481 1 Introduction PAGEREF _Toc321330481 \h 5 HYPERLINK \l _Toc321330482 2 Method PAGEREF _Toc321330482 \h 10 HYPERLINK \l _Toc321330483 3 Was this the target group? PAGEREF _Toc321330483 \h 12 HYPERLINK \l _Toc321330484 4 Pathways in PAGEREF _Toc321330484 \h 17 HYPERLINK \l _Toc321330485 5 Chronic homelessness PAGEREF _Toc321330485 \h 24 HYPERLINK \l _Toc321330486 6 Disengaging PAGEREF _Toc321330486 \h 31 HYPERLINK \l _Toc321330487 7 How are they now? PAGEREF _Toc321330487 \h 38 HYPERLINK \l _Toc321330488 8 Conclusion PAGEREF _Toc321330488 \h 43 HYPERLINK \l _Toc321330489 References PAGEREF _Toc321330489 \h 46 HYPERLINK \l _Toc321330490 Appendix 1: Interview Schedule PAGEREF _Toc321330490 \h 48Executive summaryThe Australian Government’s (2008) White Paper on homelessness identified two overarching policy goals: to halve homelessness by 2020 and to offer supported accommodation to all rough sleepers who need it. This report evaluates a new service in inner Melbourne, known as ‘Street to Home’. This is the first of three reports that will track the Street to Home participants over 24 months. It is a benchmark report so it focuses on the characteristics of the Street to Home clients when they joined the program. The first aim of this report is to establish whether Street to Home has engaged with its target group. Chapter 3 describes the basic characteristics of the participants. It reports that all the clients had s