No child or adolescent should experience homelessness. Any child or adolescent who is at risk of or experiencing homelessness is one too many.
Those who have experienced homelessness are dealing with its many long-terms impacts. It’s time to address child and adolescent homelessness and ensure their health and wellbeing, for a brighter future.
This holiday season, let’s reflect on all we have done & what we need to do to prevent homelessness and its harmful outcomes.
Read the Centre for Adolescent Health submission to on Australia’s National Housing and Homelessness Plan: https://doi.org/10.26188/24405688.v1
Acknowledging and celebrating ‘Youth Homelessness Matters Day’
On April 17, every year the youth edition of Parity (Australia’s national homelessness publication) is released. Congratulations to Associate Professor Jess Heerde, Lindsay Pearce and colleagues on having three publications included in the edition.
- Heerde, J.A., Olsson, C.A., & Sawyer, SM (2024). The absence of children and adolescents from the National Housing and Homelessness Plan: are you kidding? Parity. 37(3): 23-24.
- Pearce, L., Heerde, J.A., Kinner, S.A., & Sawyer, SM (2024). Homelessness and criminal justice contact among young people: A hidden syndemic? Parity. 37(3): 35-37.
- Hargreaves, J., and Heerde, J.A., (2024). Championing Health at Hope Street. Parity. 37(3): 46-48.
Access the publications here: https://doi.org/10.26188/25623168.v1
‘Pathways to sustainability – Understanding and preventing youth homelessness’ webinar recording
https://youtu.be/zS4j4QTg7ss?feature=shared
Homelessness poses a grave and largely preventable challenge. Children and young people facing homelessness encounter significant challenges that compromise their safety and health as well as the potential for a brighter future. The Australian Homelessness Cohort Consortium is pioneering a collaborative effort, merging population-based longitudinal studies to uncover the pathways into and out of homelessness, from childhood through adulthood.
In this engaging webinar, Associate Professor Jess Heerde shared the preliminary findings and highlighted how the consortium is using data to combat child and adolescent homelessness. Joining Jess is Kate Colvin, CEO of Homelessness Australia, who provided insights into why this research is so vital and what more can be done to address this urgent issue. Professor Susan Sawyer, Director of the Centre for Adolescent Health at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, shares her expertise in adolescent health and medicine to moderate the panel discussion and Q&A session.
