{"id":6884,"date":"2020-06-10T13:01:05","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T13:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=6884"},"modified":"2020-06-10T13:01:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T13:01:05","slug":"landmark-program-to-break-the-cycle-of-rough-sleeping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/06\/10\/landmark-program-to-break-the-cycle-of-rough-sleeping\/","title":{"rendered":"LANDMARK PROGRAM TO BREAK THE CYCLE OF ROUGH SLEEPING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of people experiencing homelessness will be supported through the new $36 million\u00a0<em>Together Home<\/em>\u00a0project, which will deliver the largest housing response dedicated to rough sleepers in NSW history.<br \/>\nMinister for Families, Communities and Disability Services Gareth Ward said the project would change the lives of people who have experienced rough sleeping, including people with highly complex needs, by rapidly securing them homes from the private rental market and wrapping essential support services around them.<br \/>\n\u201cThroughout the COVID-19 response we\u2019ve worked hard to keep rough sleepers safe. Now we\u2019re working to get them into homes with the support they need to rebuild their lives,\u201d Mr Ward said.<br \/>\n\u201cThis is the largest single investment made to tackle rough sleeping in NSW. The response will be intensive and pack many months\u2019 of work into just weeks, as we strive to transition people from temporary accommodation into secure housing.\u201d<br \/>\n<em>Together Home<\/em>\u00a0will be a partnership between the NSW Government, Community Housing Providers, Specialist Homelessness Services and health services.<br \/>\nThe package of support is designed to help get people off the streets for good. It will provide access to the services people need to maintain their tenancy, improve their health and wellbeing and move towards training and employment.<br \/>\nHomelessness NSW CEO Katherine McKernan said a housing-first model is critical to providing stability for rough sleepers, and things like case management, drug and alcohol services and mental health support are so important.<br \/>\n\u201cThe sector has worked hard in recent months to get to this point and this additional funding will provide the critical next step to help secure housing and the supports people need to sustain tenancies,\u201d Ms McKernan said.<br \/>\nThe project builds on the NSW Government\u2019s response to COVID-19, which included increasing the supply and flexibility of temporary accommodation and the expansion of assertive outreach across the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of people experiencing homelessness will be supported through the new $36 million\u00a0Together Home\u00a0project, which will deliver the largest housing response dedicated to rough sleepers in NSW history. Minister for Families, Communities and Disability Services Gareth Ward said the project would change the lives of people who have experienced rough sleeping, including people with highly &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/06\/10\/landmark-program-to-break-the-cycle-of-rough-sleeping\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LANDMARK PROGRAM TO BREAK THE CYCLE OF ROUGH SLEEPING&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}