Mission Australia

1. Missionbeat
(Community Services/Community Services)

... launched a new arm of the service, the Missionbeat Bicycles to improve the speed and flexibility of the service. Each day outreach workers on bicycles criss-cross the city talking to people sleeping ...

2. Missionbeat: a Sydney icon turns 30
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... an important role in making sure people receive the best and most appropriate care for their situation. “We’ve also recently started a bike service. People sleeping rough are often tucked away out of ...

3. Community Services in NSW
(Community Services/Community Services by State)

... Australia launched a new arm of the service, the Missionbeat Bicycles to improve the speed and flexibility of the service. Each day outreach workers on bicycles criss-cross the city talking to people sleeping ...

4. Missionbeat Bikes hit the road
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... giving homeless people in Sydney better access to critical support and reducing Mission Australia’s carbon emissions. “The new Missionbeat Bike service will allow us to help more people sleeping rough ...

5. Concern at growing numbers of homeless people turned away
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... only slightly from the previous year (368 in 2006-07), the knowledge that many of the 385 – which include family groups – would have ended up sleeping rough, in cars, or in other dangerous situations was ...

6. Mission Australia welcomes Homelessness Revolution
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... of the overall population hasn’t changed. And among some groups – such as people sleeping rough on the street and homeless families – numbers have actually increased. This is shameful – any level of homelessness ...

7. Latest homeless figures reflect 'wasted years of inaction'
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... years have meant nothing for Australia’s homeless – there’s been no trickle down of benefits to them. “The rise in the number of people sleeping rough on our streets – up from 14,158 in 2001 to 16,375 ...

8. Green paper on homelessness is a positive step
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... 'sleeping rough', many are young (46 per cent are below 25) and they are victims of violence, extreme financial hardship, mental illness and drug addiction. “A key feature of this new paper is its ...

9. Adelaide's heatwave hits the homeless
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... issues related to homelessness, we are seeing many cases of sunburn and heatstroke, due to clients’ inability to maintain fluids and find shade.” “One client, who has been sleeping in a car and had no ...

10. Experiences of young homeless people make for a surprise
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... of young homeless people, having ‘body image’ come up as their second highest concern definitely was,” said Ms Hampshire. “This may reflect, in part, the impact homelessness – particularly sleeping rough ...

11. Roma House - A new service for homeless Queenslanders launched in Brisbane
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... for families. “The residents of Roma House will be those used to sleeping rough. They are likely to have been unable to be accommodated by other services; to need help in dealing with alcohol or drug ...

12. Rising Sydney Rents Lead to a Growing Number of Homeless Families in Western Sydney
(News/Media Releases Archive)

...  “Based on the 2001 census, there are about 250 people sleeping rough in Western Sydney on any one night with about 100 people sleeping in abandoned buildings. At times, that number reaches 300. “However, ...