About Homelessness Prevention Week
The Salvation Army
Homelessness Prevention Week (HPW) is an annual themed week coordinated by Homelessness Australia.  It is used to raise awareness of people experiencing homelessness and the surrounding issues.

It is held in the first full week of August each year.

It aims to:

    Raise public awareness of homelessness and the factors that cause it;
    Celebrate the resilience of young people and convey the message that young people experiencing homelessness are homeless but not helpless;
    Provide information to the general public about how they can help end homelessness.

Why does Youth Homelessness matter?

Young people aged 12 to 25 make up a fifth of our population yet they are over represented in homelessness statistics.  Nationally 42% of those experiencing homelessness are young people.  What does this mean, there are 26,000 young homeless Australians aged 12 -25.

Without appropriate support a young person who is experiencing homelessness is likely to experience a lifetime of disadvantage.   

Youth homelessness is not about young people that simply don't want to live at home.  Two of the main causes are domestic violence (abuse) and relationship or family breakdown. No one chooses this for themselves.   

Accommodation services for young people can only help 50% of the young people that visit them. If a young person goes and stays with a friend this is just a temporary solution.

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Of course it is. And during this temporary time, such people will have the opportunity to attend a local Centrelink Office where they will be given social worker and case management support. These advocates will also organise one off remedial as well as long term income support and other referral options.

Make no mistake, Australia is a very lucky country.

I was wondering what your champions the liberal government, are doing about it.   

Sprintcyclist wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2015 at 9:35am:


Castrate the uneducated who can't spell. On your bike bonehead.

Sprintcyclist wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2015 at 9:35am:


Eugenics is the answer
- something someone actually said in the year 2015

“Two imbecile parents, whether related or not, have only imbecile offspring.”
― Charles Benedict Davenport

"I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding; and when the evil nature of these people is sufficiently flagrant, this should be done. Criminals should be sterilized and feebleminded persons forbidden to leave offspring behind them... The emphasis should be laid on getting desirable people to breed..."

Roosevelt, “Twisted Eugenics,” in The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, op. cit., National Edition, XII, p. 201.

Sprintcyclist wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2015 at 1:07pm:


How did your parents evade that?