Gold Coast Zero Campaign

Ending homelessness on the Gold Coast is possible

The Gold Coast Homelessness Network (GCHN) has officially joined the Australian Alliance to End Homelessness to progress the Gold Coast Zero Campaign.

The Gold Coast Zero Campaign is the community-based effort to build public support for ending homelessness and political support for renewed Commonwealth and State investment in housing, support services and healthcare for the most vulnerable.
Homelessness in the Gold Coast can and should be ended. This will require a continued commitment to coordination across organisations: a sharing of resources, power, risks and rewards toward the collective vision of ending homelessness in this city.

The Gold Coast Zero Campaign represents a continued commitment to process innovation that builds on the working foundations developed by the Gold Coast Homelessness Network and its members. Moving forward, the Gold Coast Zero Campaign will embrace Functional Zero as a more pragmatic approach to ending homelessness by implementing a Housing First Approach focusses on ending and not simply managing homelessness in the Gold Coast Region. Ending homelessness involves:

Any incident of homelessness is brief before being rapidly resolved – preventing first time or episodic homelessness
Homelessness is rarely recurring and never a chronic event
Responding to crisis as they occur, in the shortest time possible; and
People are assisted to sustaining their tenancies
Increase supply of affordable, permanent housing]

Goals of the Gold Coast Zero Campaign

The key goals of the Gold Coast Zero Campaign are to:

Build one housing delivery system to include every person experiencing homelessness in the Gold Coast coordinated across community services with a role in preventing and ending homelessness.

Develop the By Name List to deliver accurate, real-time information to make the best allocation decisions, including an understanding of when people move into housing and when new people enter into homelessness.

Learn and understand what every person needs, based on their individual experience, circumstances, and preferences.

Explore how to better use the resources currently available.

Quantify the scale and type of new housing and supports needed in the Gold Coast.

Enhance public support and advocate for what we need to build a dynamic range of affordable and supportive housing, healthcare, and social services in the Gold Coast.

Connect with other communities for innovation, knowledge and group problem solving

Goals Of The Gold Coast Zero Campaign

Gold Coast Zero Campaign members share a continuing commitment to improving the quality of life of individuals and families in the Gold Coast, through collective efforts that improve access to permanent housing, healthcare and community support and create greater opportunities for economic, social and cultural participation.
The Gold Coast Zero Campaign consists of 3 levels of membership. This agreement relates to Partners.

Partners

Partners agree to participate in the governance of the Gold Coast Zero Campaign as attendance to the COSH.

The Gold Coast Zero Campaign Steering Committee sits as a function of the COSH to provide high level strategic oversight and decision making of the campaign. Partners must be members of the Gold Coast Homelessness Network.

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Collaborators

Collaborators agree to participate in the operational activities of the Gold Coast Zero Campaign including signing the Regional Member Agreement to access the Advance to Zero Database and participating in Working Group meetings to triage vulnerability for the target cohorts.

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Supporters

Supports agree to support the vision of the Gold Coast Zero Campaign through public endorsement and consent to share organizational logos on the campaign website.

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