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Adelaide Conference on Homelessness
Downtown Community Ministry
Bulletin
14
May 2008
Adelaide Conference on
Homelessness
Downtown Community Ministry’s Alan
Norman and Kate Bell travel to Adelaide next week for the
biannual National Homelessness Conference.
The
theme for the conference is New Horizons: Practice, Research
and Emerging Issues.
It aims to create a framework
for ending homelessness through increasing understanding of
its social and economic impacts.
Community Outreach
Worker Kate Bell says, “The conference brings together a
huge range of researchers and people creating social policy
to end homelessness in Australia. We’ll get a real taste
of what’s going on and the intersectoral approach they
use.”
The conference lasts three days and, Kate says, it
includes sessions with particular relevance to
Wellington’s situation.
“We’re looking
forward to the sessions on sustaining housing; mental
health/substance abuse; and using research to influence
policy.
“When you walk into a new place the
people you meet can often give you a completely fresh way of
looking at things. So hopefully we’ll come back with lots
of
ideas.”
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