The Housing and Accommodation Support Initiative (HASI) is a program that provides an integrated hospital to community care system for people with mental illness and associated psychiatric disability. This report examines the care planning practices of NGO Accommodation Support Providers. The Housing and Accommodation Support Initiative (HASI) is a program funded by NSW Health and...

Using the findings from the primary data collection with families and stakeholders, this report develops the understanding of resilience in these families. It also analyses service practices and models and looks at how services can assist families to build and maintain resilience. Using the findings from the primary data collection with families and stakeholders, this...

To what extent does receiving SAAP services facilitate positive changes in client self-reliance, and what forms does this improvement take for different groups of clients? This study provides a positive picture of the extent to which clients felt they had moved towards self-reliance after getting help from SAAP services. Nevertheless, many were still living in...

This plan outlines the methodology for the evaluation of the Integrated Rehabilitation and Recovery Care Project (IRRCP). The evaluation will research the implementation, process and outcomes of the program. The objectives of the evaluation are to:• assess whether the appropriate consumers have been targeted by the IRRCP; • identify program implementation consistency across the three...

Despite the well-known limitations of statistical measurement, there is still a vital need to document the extent of overall poverty and its incidence among different groups in Australia. Without such evidence, it is impossible to establish how successful social and economic policies have been in alleviating poverty, or where additional resources need to be directed...