This Request is for the provision of the Homelessness Specialist Support Service – Central Great Southern (the Service). The Service will provide wrap-around case management support for sixteen (16) clients/families at any one time experiencing or at risk of homelessness in the Central Great Southern Region, including the Shires of Katanning, Kojonup, Gnowangerup and Broomehill-Tambellup.

The Service will provide culturally safe and inclusive holistic support. Clients will be assisted to obtain, sustain and/or maintain accommodation/housing and supported to achieve their individual goals.

The Service will align with the outcomes outlined in the All Path’s Lead to a Home: Western Australia’s 10-Year Strategy on Homelessness (the Strategy), which sets a whole of community plan that outlines four focus areas:

1. Improving Aboriginal wellbeing;
2. Providing safe, secure and stable homes;
3. Preventing homelessness; and
4. Strengthening and coordinating our responses and impact.

The Service will facilitate the ‘no wrong door’ and ‘Housing First” concepts outlined in the Strategy.