Subscribe to keep up to date with the latest research, resources, news and events from The Deck.
You can also sign up to Q Shelter’s monthly newsletter, Home Matters.
Tools and Resources
Webinar: A Couch is Not a Home.
This is a recording of a webinar held early in 2021 by Brisbane Youth Service.
In this recording we share learning about the risks and realities of couch surfing as the most common form of homelessness for young people. Included is key learning arising from 5 years of quantitative research data about young couch surfer’s issues and support needs as well as in-depth qualitative learning from young peoples’ voices and experiences, gathered through 65 in-depth interviews with young couch surfers.
We also explore how the research learning has been applied to practice through a dedicated couch surfing hotline and support service, including practice approaches, the use of a purpose-developed couch surfing risk screening tool and recommendations for frontline workers, agencies and policy.
We have also attached the Risk Screening Tool. Please note this tool is a work in progress and further changes may be made between now and the end of the project.
Tool: Couch Surfing Risk Screening
Brisbane Youth Service Couch Surfing Risk Screening Tool
If you are planning to use the tool in practice, and would like to provide any feedback please contact:
- Ratna Beekman rbeekman@brisyouth.org
Project Coordinator – Couch Surfing Support Hotline - Rhianon Vichta-Ohlsen rvichta@brisyouth.org
Research and Evaluation Manager
Community attitudes towards poverty and inequality in Australia
Presentations and Webinars | Publication Date: 14 December 2023
A seminar on the findings from the ACOSS and UNSW partnership report, presented by Scientia Professor Carla Treloar, Jacqueline Phillips and Mark Chenery for the UNSW Social Policy Research Centre on...
Ending Child Poverty in Australia – BSL Talks
Presentations and Webinars | Publication Date: 27 October 2023
Special Anti-Poverty Week edition of the Brotherhood of St Laurence (BSL) Talks webinars. Focuses on Ending child poverty in...
ABCB Standard for Livable Housing Design (mandatory)
Guides and Templates | Publication Date: 24 April 2023
The ABCB has released 2 new publications to support practitioners’ understanding of the new livable housing design provisions in the NCC, and the ABCB Standard for Livable Housing...
A Guide to Providing Housing Focused Support
Guides and Templates | Publication Date: 1 December 2022
Build your knowledge of activities and interventions that help people to gain and sustain a home with this series of practice guides. Each guide breaks down a core component of housing-focused...
Effective Engagement: building relationships with community and other stakeholders
Toolkits | Publication Date: 13 July 2022
In 2005 the Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment released a three part resource on Effective Engagement: building relationships with community and other stakeholder. In 2015, it...
Tenant Participation (Q Shelter Learning Exchange held June 2022)
Guides and Templates | Publication Date: 24 June 2022
Tenant participation is an important part of the work undertaken by Community Housing Providers, it is a two-way process involving tenants working in partnership with providers to share ideas,...
Domestic and Family Violence Resources
Toolkits | Publication Date: 17 June 2022
As a community, we all have a responsibility to put an end to domestic and family violence. In our role as a peak body, Q Shelter has engaged in work which aims to equip providers of housing and...
Think a cyber attack wouldn’t happen to you?
Presentations and Webinars | Publication Date: 24 February 2022
This is a PwC cybersecurity webinar for not-for-profit organisations. Interactive virtual activity Cyber threat detection Changing business, technology and cyber threat landscape A snapshot...