Youth survey

This report was produced in collaboration with youth mental health research and advocacy organisation, Orygen. The report aims to better understand the impacts that concern about financial security and financial hardship have in the lives of young people and is based on data from the 2023 Mission Australia Youth Survey.

This is Mission Australia’s fifth biennial youth homelessness report. The report explores 2023 Youth Survey data to understand key areas of disparity between young people with experience of homelessness compared to those who have stable housing and presents policy recommendations to end youth homelessness in Australia.

This report summary contains the key findings and policy recommendations from the main report The unfair divide: Disadvantage faced by young people who are homeless.

A breakdown of The unfair divide: Disadvantage faced by young people who are homeless findings by gender and state.

This is another report that has been produced as a result of an ongoing partnership between Mission Australia and Orygen. The purpose of this report is to better understand the cohort of young people who experience extreme weather events and the impact these events have on their lives.