Editorial
Jenny Smith, CEO, Council to Homeless Persons
News
Homelessness Australia Update
By Travis Gilbert, Policy and Research Officer
Home Truths Art Exhibition
Forum on the Future of Social Housing
By Mandy Leveratt, Manager, Quality and Service, St Kilda Community Housing
Feature: Consumer and Client Participation in the Response to Homelessness
Introduction – Consumers: The Real Experts on Homelessness
By Christine Black
In My Opinion
By Mary Sullivan, Member, Street Care, the Homeless Persons’ Legal Service (HPLS) Consumer Advisory Committee
Participation Through Volunteering
By Doug Harding, Team Leader, Ozanam Community Centre
Consumer Participation and the Need for Reflexivity
By Phoebe Peterson
HomeGround Services and Client Participation
By George Hatvani, Service Development and Research Manager, Sue Kimberley, Service Development Coordinator and Daniel Scoular, Communications Manager, HomeGround Services, with contributions by Sally Jope and Mark Planigale
Twenty Tasmanian Stories
By Anita Pryor, Anglicare Tasmania, Social Action and Research Centre
If I were part of a Ministerial Advisory Committee on Consumer Participation…
By Spike
Reforming Mental Health Care in the People’s Direction: The Power of Consumer Participation in Achieving Systemic Change
By Ka Ki Ng, Senior Policy Officer, New South Wales Consumer Advisory Group— Mental Health Inc.
The Sacred Heart Client Representative Group (CRG)
By Chris Middendorp, Manager, Sacred Heart Central
Feeling Empowered Whilst In Crisis!
By Vicky Vacondios
‘When you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there’ Does Politically Motivated Research Contribute to Unethical Research Practices?
By Natalie Greenland and Alice Clark, Shelter SA
A Meaningful Life
By Allan Eric Martin, Peer Education Support Program Graduate
Stories are the Asset
By Sarah Gover, Community Development Officer, Gippsland Diocese
The Peer Education Support Program and Consumer Participation
By Cassandra Bawden, CHP PESP Team Leader, The Peer Education Support Program (PESP)
My Experience as a PESP Team Member
By Peter Burns
Housing Security: Views of Women Leaving Prison
By Brenda Bailey, Director, Women in Prison Advocacy Network (WIPAN) Board, Executive Committee
The Beating Heart
By Shane Lewis
The Importance of Youth Participation in Programs for Traumatised Homeless Young People
By Rudy Gonzalez, Director of Culture and Practice Development, Lighthouse Institute and Cheyne Bull, Residential and Community Care Manager, Lighthouse Foundation
Consumer and Client Participation in Developing Homelessness Policy and Staff Awareness in Local Government
By Kate Incerti, Team Leader, Housing and Homelessness Services, City of Port Phillip
In Camera: A Creative Approach to Recovery
By Renae Fomiatti, Community Development Worker, Vincentcare
A Long Way From ‘No fixed abode’
By David Croft
All Voices to be Heard: Consumer Participation in Local Government
By Anne Barton, Community Planner, Housing, Yarra City Council
Council to Homeless Persons Consumer Programs
Opinion
Ian Gough
Manager Consumer Services CHP