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Corporate Collaboration creating change by supporting Hamlet Cafe

Corporate collaboration creating change

By Community Grants, Grant Impact, Homelessness in the news, Projects StreetSmart, Recently Funded, StreetSmart Projects, Youth

The Alternative Dairy Co have taken their Team Championship across the country, raising funds to provide hospitality based training and employment opportunities to at-risk cohorts. With a localised impact on the ground at each of the 7 locations, it’s a remarkable example of a corporate partnership that takes a whole of community approach to bringing about change for those in need.

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Rough sleeping is life-threatening, but it’s also solvable.

By Homelessness in the news, Projects StreetSmart, Rough Sleeping, StreetSmart Projects

Sleeping rough on the streets, in cars or tents is increasingly the only option left for thousands of people in Australia. Families are sleeping in cold, damp tents and people are spending years living on streets. This type of homelessness is dangerous, traumatic, and often life-threatening. But it is also solvable.

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Brunswick South Primary School staff and StreetSmart team discuss how Schools for Change resources help to shift the narrative on homelessness

Teachers and students help shift the narrative on homelessness

By Homelessness in the news, Projects StreetSmart, Schools for Change, StreetSmart Projects

80 young students in Melbourne’s northern suburbs have been tackling the enduring barriers to ending homelessness: stigma, myths, and misconceptions. We chat with them about how our Schools for Change classroom resources help to shift the narrative on homelessness, deepen empathy, bust myths, and empower students to stand up for the rights of others.

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