Community Compass
Understanding attitudes to the nation's community sector: A segmentation of Australia’s views and engagement with the community sector. This report presents findings from a survey of 3,071 members of the...
Research / Reports
Certified Peer Support in the Field of Homelessness: Stories Behind the Work
Certified peer support specialists (CPSS) are used as a paraprofessional workforce to engage hard-to-reach populations, including people experiencing homelessness. Thematic analysis was used to explore with...
Cost of Living Index: income support payments
For years, Australians have been hearing reports of people on JobSeeker and other income support payments struggling to stay afloat. Anglicare Australia has documented people skipping meals, being pushed into...
The Aspire Social Impact Bond: How social impact bond financing can promote positive social and economic outcomes
Financing human service delivery through social impact bonds (SIBs) is the subject of some critical commentary in the academic literature, but this tends to be largely theoretical rather than empirically...
A Shelter by Any Other Name? Delivering Homeless Crisis Accommodation Services in a Hotel
How to shelter people who are experiencing homelessness is a pressing social problem. A substantive literature critiques the congregate shelter model that is often coupled with paternalistic service delivery,...
Factors associated with housing stability for Aboriginal families in South Australia: a prospective cohort study
Stable, affordable and safe housing is a key determinant of health and wellbeing. Evidence from an Australian population-based cohort of 344 Aboriginal mothers and children aged 5-9 years shows that tenure...
Involving people with lived experience of homelessness in palliative and end of life care research: key considerations from experts in the field
Background Co-production of research aims to include people with lived experience of a phenomena throughout the research process. People experiencing homelessness often experience advance ill-health at a...
Peer and lay health work for people experiencing homelessness: A scoping review
Homelessness poses complex health obstacles for individuals and communities. Peer and lay health worker programs aim to increase access to health care and improve health outcomes for PEH by building trust and...
Homelessness, psychiatric disorders, and violence in Denmark: a population-based cohort study
Background Homelessness is associated with adverse health and social outcomes. People experiencing homelessness have been found to have a high risk of violent crime victimisation as well as high prevalence...
The Needs of Women Using Homelessness Services: The Results of Collaborative Research in London
This paper explores the results of a study conducted in collaboration with the homelessness sector in central London and an academic team. Data were collected on 134 women who used homelessness services in an...