Hi new member & new project needing ideas

[TorR]

Hi Everyone,

My name’s Tor and I’m a researcher with the new Australian National Youth Commission Inquiry into Youth Homelessness.

This Inquiry is the first independent, national look at homelessness since Brian Burdekin published Our Homeless Children in 1989 when he was working at the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.

As part of our research, we’ve been travelling around Australia, talking to young people and to services. We’ve heard about some of the problems young people face and we’ve also heard quite a few stories about young people overcoming really difficult situations. We want to hear more and we want to listen to young people’s ideas about what should be done.

Could you help us with the project? We have a website at www.nyc.net.au where you can find out more about the Inquiry, send us submissions or just make a few comments. By the way, we’re funded by the Caledonia Foundation, which is a charity, which means we are completely independent of government.

We’re going to be making some recommendations to the community and to government about helping young homeless people when we’ve finished our research so any help you can give us could make a difference.

Thanks and looking forward to hearing from you…

The main thread for this topic is here: Inquiry into Youth Homelessness - Australian National Youth Commission.