Towards Home+ Geelong

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1300 275 811

towardshomeplusgeelong@neaminational.org.au

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About this service

Towards Home+ Geelong provides intensive support for people who are currently rough sleeping in the Geelong area.

Delivered by a multidisciplinary team, the service uses a shared-care approach to support people to obtain and maintain housing, improve physical and mental health, and develop connections in the local community.

About Towards Home+ Geelong

Towards Home+ Geelong provides intensive support for people who are currently rough sleeping in the Geelong area. Delivered by a multidisciplinary team, the service uses a shared-care approach to support people to obtain and maintain housing, improve physical and mental health, and develop connections in the local community.

Who is this for?

Towards Home+ is for people who:

Are sleeping rough or in make-shift dwellings.
Experience chronic homelessness as symptomatic of complex needs including mental illness and persistent system failures.
Have experienced recent or past episodes of chronic homelessness including rough sleeping.
Have links to, or a desire to establish links to, community and services in the local area.

What to expect

Outreach support

The Assertive Outreach Team engages people who are sleeping rough focusing on brief interventions and short-term support including:

Rapid access to emergency accommodation and health services.
Access to stable accommodation as quickly as possible (Housing-First approach).
Connection with existing formal and informal supports.
Referral to the Supportive Housing Team and other services to meet longer-term needs.

Housing support

The Supportive Housing Team supports people to remain housed and provides longer-term intensive, flexible and consumer-centred support including:

Tenancy establishment and maintenance.
Development of daily living skills and participation in social activities.
Identification of goals and strengths, and development of a person-centred, coordinated shared-care plan.
Case management and care coordination to facilitate multi-agency ‘wrap-around’ support.
Service navigation and connection with mainstream services (primary health care, clinical mental health services, employment services, legal services, NDIS, etc.).
Support to strengthen informal supports.

How to access this service

Anyone can make a referral to Towards Home+.

Call us

To make a referral to the Assertive Outreach Team, please call 1300 275 811.

Call 1300 275 811

Submit a referral form

To refer someone to the Supportive Housing Team, please download the referral form.

Download the referral form

Commitment to diversity, inclusion and reconciliation

Neami is committed to cultivating inclusive environments for all staff, consumers and carers.

We understand that to achieve safe, accessible and culturally responsive service environments and workplaces, we must take a whole-of-organisation approach that celebrates, values and includes people of all backgrounds, identities, cultures and experiences.

We believe this commitment to diversity and inclusion makes our teams, services and organisation stronger and more effective.

Resources

Towards Home+ Geelong referral form

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Contact Towards Home+ Geelong

1300 275 811

towardshomeplusgeelong@neaminational.org.au

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Partners

Towards Home+ is delivered by Neami National in partnership with Launch Housing, Uniting, Bolton Clarke, and Melbourne City Mission. Towards Home+ is supported by the Victorian Government.