Join us during Homelessness Week 2020 for a presentation and panel discussion about Sacred Heart Mission’s Journey to Social Inclusion (J2SI) Program - an innovative and successful evidence-based initiative which has been proven by research, over 10 years, to reduce chronic homelessness, by providing people with housing and long-term support.

J2SI is offered by SHM to the most disadvantaged and marginalised people in our community – those who are experiencing long-term, chronic homelessness - and over three years they are supported to exit homelessness rather than simply manage it.

J2SI Phase Two was run from 2016 and supported 62 people across inner Melbourne. The program built on the success and learnings of the J2SI
Pilot (2009-12), which supported 40 people in the St Kilda area.

J2SI Phase Three is currently underway and incorporates learnings from the delivery of Phase Two as part of SHM’s practice of continuous improvement. Phase Three is funded by a Social Impact Investment with the Victorian Government to support 180 people in Melbourne.

J2SI is an evidence-based model, with both the Pilot and Phase Two independently evaluated. Phase Two has been evaluated by a team of researchers from Swinburne University of Technology and the Centre for Social Impact at The University of Western Australia.

Participants were randomly assigned to two groups, with one group receiving support through J2SI and the other continuing to receive support as usual.

Outcomes for the two groups are presented in the evaluation reports, which will be launched during this impact2020 webinar.

The findings will contribute to the continuous improvement of J2SI and SHM’s ambition to scale J2SI nationally through the J2SI Evaluation and Learning Centre (ELC). In partnership with service providers, the ELC will enable J2SI to support more people out of homelessness across Australia.

Join us for this free impact2020 webinar for an in-depth analysis of the highly successful J2SI program, with:

Cathy Humphrey, CEO, Sacred Heart Mission
Professor Paul Flatau, Director, Centre for Social Impact, The University of Western Australia
Associate Professor Monica Thielking, Chair, Department of Psychological Sciences, Swinburne University
*Fred, a former Journey to Social Inclusion participant

Please note: This webinar starts at 12:30pm (AEST) and registrations will close an hour before the webinar starts.

The webinar will be recorded and made available shortly afterwards. Please register to receive the first release of the recording.

About impact2020

These are unprecedented times and the upheaval to our society requires an extraordinary response from our leaders, our thinkers and our do-ers.

Our first series of impact2020 - presented by the Centre for Social Impact - offered free daily webinars for the Australian for-purpose sector during April, May and June 2020, covering a range of topic areas with CSI's innovative researchers, educators and thought leaders. We covered the breadth and complexity of social impact and we brought our diverse Australian for-purpose sector together.

We're now continuing with a second impact2020 series with monthly webinars from June 2020, in partnership with our network.

This impact2020 webinar is a free event presented by the Centre for Social Impact (CSI) and Sacred Heart Mission (SHM). We invite you to join, learn and affect change with us.