Advance to Zero National Showcase

Believe that ending homelessness is possible? 

Want to discover how communities across Australia are charting a path towards ending homelessness?

With the generous support of our major event sponsor, Neami National, the Australian Alliance to End Homelessness (AAEH) invites you to the Advance to Zero National Showcase to learn about how communities across Australia are working to end homelessness as part of the Advance to Zero (AtoZ) Campaign. 

The AtoZ Campaign is a groundbreaking national initiative of the AAEH that supports local collaborative community efforts to end homelessness, starting with rough sleeping – one community at a time. Using a range of proven approaches from around the world, communities are supported not just to address individual instances of homelessness, or even reduce overall homelessness, but to end it altogether.

The showcase will provide the opportunity to hear directly from communities involved with the AtoZ Campaign and explain how you can get involved. There will also be a presentation on the overall campaign, how it works, and what it’s seeking to achieve. 

With more than 30 Australian communities participating in the campaign, inspired by a growing number of communities in the US and Canada that have ended homelessness, this event is not to be missed. 

The event is being held to coincide with the AHURI National Housing Conference, October 10th-12th, 2023, Brisbane. 

Places are limited.

• Date: Monday, October 9th, 2023
• Time: 6.15pm arrival, 6.30pm start 
• Location: Rydges South Bank Brisbane, 9 Glenelg Street, South Brisbane 
• Catering: Ticket includes a delicious 2-course meal, drinks purchased at attendee cost 
• Ticket price: 
  • Early Bird Ticket Purchase: $55 per ticket + booking fee (available through to September 15th, 2023)
  • Full Ticket Purchase: $65.00 per ticket + booking fee

If you have lived experience of homelessness and require financial assistance with ticket purchase, contact livia.carusi@saaeh.org.au.

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About the Australian Alliance to End Homelessness (AAEH):

The Australian Alliance to End Homelessness (AAEH) is an independent champion for preventing and ending homelessness in Australia. We recognise that the scale of homelessness in Australia is both preventable and solvable and that despite the common misconception to the contrary, we can end homelessness in Australia.  

Since 2013, we have supported individuals, organisations, governments and local communities to work collaboratively across sectors to end homelessness – not just at an individual level, but systemically.

Specifically, we work to prevent, reduce, and end homelessness by ensuring that everyone has access to the housing and support they need, so that any future incidents of homelessness are rare, brief and a one-time occurrence. This is how we define an end to homelessness. 

Through the Advance to Zero Campaign, our Allied Networks, and our Training and Advisory Services, we support local communities to demonstrate that ending homelessness is possible.

Ultimately, the AAEH exists to bring community, business and government together to inspire action for an end to all homelessness in Australia.

To learn more or get involved in the AtoZ Campaign, get in touch with us here.

About our Major Event Sponsor, Neami National:

We’re Neami. We’re big believers in everyone having the opportunity to live a full life – and we give our all to support people to achieve the wellbeing and mental health outcomes that matter to them.

We are proud to support 32,000 people living with mental health challenges across Australia and offer more than 70 services, over 49 different Indigenous lands, across the nation. These include mental health and wellbeing supports, housing and homelessness, and suicide prevention services.

About our Event Sponsor, Micah Projects:

Micah Projects is a not-for-profit organisation committed to providing services and opportunities in the community to create justice and respond to injustice.

We engage with people experiencing adversity due to poverty, homelessness, mental illness, domestic violence, disability and all forms of discrimination.

 Micah Projects works to break down barriers that exclude people from housing, healthcare, employment, meaningful connections, and to give people a voice. We assist and support each individual or family including children, to resolve crisis, break social isolation, have a home, access health and community services, and build community.

 Micah Projects provides a range of support and advocacy services to individuals and families according to their needs and capacity.

 We acknowledge the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia (First Peoples) as the traditional owners of this land and support the right of Indigenous people to self determination and cultural expression.

 The Queensland Government supports Micah Projects in our mission to build community and break social isolation through funding agreements for the provision of services in the community.