Children who follow their parents into homelessness rarely get asked a simple but important question by support services: “how are you, and what do you need?”
The reality of many specialist homelessness services (SHS) is that when a parent or family reaches out for homelessness support, their children, while accounted for in the case management process, are not provided personalised support to tackle individual, sometimes very specific, needs to help them with what they are experiencing.
Our CEO, Heidi Tucker was on the television last week discussing the need for a greater focus on children who follow their parents into homelessness.
We were thrilled to get two pieces of media out promoting the great work of our Specialist Homeless Children’s Worker pilot project, and to raise awareness about the importance of providing targeted support to children experiencing homelessness.
The pilot project launched last year and has been creating some fantastic outcomes for young clients.
You can access the television piece on YouTube.
There was also an online article accompanying the TV piece, which you can read here:
More than 43,000 kids under 10 seek homeless support a year – what’s being done for them?
