Mission Australia And Homelessness

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Mission Australia is a Christian support network that works with marginalised Australians to fulfil personal independence and sovereignty over their lifestyle. This organisation specifically assists homelessness and social housing support, but they also have facilities in place such as family, children and youth services, mental wellbeing and disability support, employment, skills and training as well as alcohol, drugs and dependencies support.

Mission Australia integrates their values of; compassion, integrity, respect and perseverance to establish national facilities and resources for people to find safety and security through their housing situations. This organisation’s main service is to provide adequate standard of living but they also provide the other services listed above to achieve absolute satisfaction of all needs such as health, education, employment and sense of identity.
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Mission Australia acknowledges that there is no consistent definition, the organisation views homelessness as being more than the issue of not having the resources to acquire a safe shelter, they recognise that homelessness exceeds ‘rooflessness’. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics the most recent census of 2011 states that 1 in 200 Australians are homeless, which increased 17% from the 2006 census. This observation is the motivation for Mission Australia to “reduce homelessness and strengthen communities in