Brisbane Zero + SEQ Friends Homelessness Week Forum 2024

Join us for the 2024 Homelessness Week Forum.

Presented by the Brisbane Zero Collaboration and supported by The Ellen Whitty Trust, Macpherson Kelley Foundation, Micah Projects, Communify, The Salvation Army, Churches of Christ Housing Services, Brisbane Youth Services, YFS Ltd, Uniting Care Queensland, Homelessness Queensland, Mission Australia, and QShelter. 

Your expertise and insights are crucial as we work towards a future where everyone has a place to call home.

Despite a stubborn housing crisis, our innovative partnerships are creating real change for people experiencing rough sleeping. This year's forum, hosted at the State Library of Queensland, offers a powerful platform for:

- Sharing ideas and knowledge
- Creative thinking
- Collaborative problem-solving

We can keep enhancing our daily work and amplify the solutions for solving homelessness. Working together, housing one person and one family at a time.

Be a part of this vital conversation. 

9.00AM - 10.30AM Opening Session - ALL ATTENDEES

Keynote speakers:

Neil Wilmett, CEO, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Housing Queensland.

Speaking on the Queensland Government "Our Place: A First Nations Housing and Homelessness Roadmap 2024-2027.

Professor Ingrid Burkett, Director of the Griffith Centre for Systems Innovation.

Presenting on the Brisbane Zero Collaboration Evaluation report.

10.30AM - 3.00PM Breakout Sessions Program - CONCURRENT SESSION

Morning tea, lunch, and afternoon tea provided.

Please register your interest for the sessions HERE.

Over 20 sessions, including:

• Two sessions on Communication for Connection - Building Relationship with Mob through Propa Ways of Yarnin' - Hosted by the Institute for Urban Indigenous Health (IUIH):

Mob make up around 3.7% of the total population but make up around 25% of those experiencing homelessness in Brisbane. Due to the high rates of Mob experiencing homelessness, staff in the sector require a greater understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural ways of seeing, knowing, being, doing and belonging. This becomes a professional obligation that our services are culturally responsive and not some protocol we pay lip service to.

This Yarn is to build a greater understanding an awareness of Propa Ways of Yarnin’ in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander context.

• Panels and Workshops on
  • Addressing Family Homelessness
  • Empowering Sustaining Tenancies
  • Collaborative Approach to Youth Homelessness
    
  • Intersectionality in Homelessness: Unravelling Complex Realities

And a lot more!

3.00PM - 4.30PM Morning tea & Wrap up Session

See you there!