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The Youth Housing First (YHF) Partnership, an Australian-first collaboration between MCM, Junction Support Services, and Quantum Support Services, will provide stable housing and comprehensive support for 67 young people leaving care.
A transformative step for young people experiencing homelessness
MCM congratulates the fabulous graduates of Hester Hornbrook Academy who will be celebrated during a special ceremony in Melbourne today. The 2024 graduating class includes participants in MCM’s transformative mental health and education initiative, the Living Learning program.
MCM’s inaugural Victorian Youth Homelessness Snapshot represents, on a given day in 2024, the reality faced by young people accessing MCM’s homelessness programs.
Advocates call for 15,000 new homes for children and young people in response to new analysis showing social housing system failing 15-24 year-olds.
MCM alongside other leading homelessness support organisations are calling on the Government to substantially increase JobSeeker and Youth Allowance in next week’s Federal Budget to tackle Australia’s youth homelessness epidemic.
The fatal impact of family violence and how it contributes to young Australians’ deaths by suicide is downplayed and poorly recorded, hidden by other presenting issues such as harmful substance use, and missing from Australia’s response systems, advocate Tash Anderson and authors of a report released today reveal.
The Victorian Government and Melbourne City Mission are joining forces to help keep young people experiencing homelessness in Werribee safe – and help them get back on their feet.
A report released by Melbourne City Mission is urging the community services sector and the government to come together to recognise young people as victim survivors of family violence in their own right and provide support they deserve.
Young people have distinctive pathways into and experience of homelessness, including having limited coping strategies and resources as well as being at high risk of further trauma, according to new research from the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI).