End Homelessness
Unlocking systems to
Regional Members
Brisbane Zero Regional Members are organisations that contribute data to our By-Name List and use the common screening tool - The Australian Homelessness Vulnerability Triage Tool (AHVTT) - to understand people's needs and match them with appropriate housing and support services. Regional Members regularly participate in the weekly Brisbane Zero Service Coordination meetings, Steering Committee meetings, and other working groups and Brisbane Zero activities.
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3rd Space
3rd Space Brisbane is a drop-in centre where homeless people find practical support, friendship and dignity. Located in Fortitude Valley, 3rd Space helps thousands of people every year – assisting some with simple things such as a shower or a meal and a cup of tea, others with a program of support for more complex needs. We help to find accommodation and work; manage addictions and emotional challenges; and get the right health and dental services.
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Anglicare SEQ
Anglicare exists to respond to human need by loving service; to seek to transform unjust structures of society, to challenge violence of every kind and to pursue peave and reconcilliation.
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Australian Community Support Organisation (ACSO)
CREST – Community Re-Entry Services Team The program directly targets needs identified for the parolee before release and during their transition into the community to break the cycle of crime. It is delivered in partnership with Queensland Corrective Services and ACSO in the South East Queensland region.
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Brisbane Youth Service
Brisbane Youth Service assists vulnerable young people to find and maintain appropriate housing, address physical and mental health issues, and establish successful relationships and support networks.
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Churches of Christ
Provision of social and affordable housing to eligible families, couples, individuals and seniors across South East Queensland, who are at risk or experiencing homelessness. Additionally, crisis accommodation for people with children experiencing hardship or domestic and family violence. Applicants can self-refer or be referred from Specialist Homelessness Services Agencies.
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Communify
Supporting the community on all sides by working creatively to meet needs and interests in a rapidly changing world.
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Institute of Urban Indigenous Health
The Institute for Urban Indigenous Health (IUIH) leads the planning, development and delivery of comprehensive primary health care services to the Indigenous population of South East Queensland (SEQ).
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Kyabra Community Association
Kyabra Community Association Inc. is a medium sized multi-service organisation which works with families and communities to strengthen family and community life. Our services are located throughout Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast.
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Micah Projects
Micah Projects is a not-for-profit organisation committed to providing services and opportunities in the community to create justice and respond to injustice.
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Mission Australia
Roma House is a non-exclusionary temporary supported accommodation service in Brisbane, supporting 31 residents (both male and female) residents aged over 18, who are rough sleeping/living in improvised dwellings & those who have experienced chronic homelessness.
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Murri Watch
Murri Watch purpose is supporting an evidence-based operational and policy environment in which cultural connection, belonging and kinship care supported by trauma informed and healing focused leadership contributes to significant reductions in incarceration rates, homelessness, public drunkenness and zero deaths in custody across Queensland.
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Teen Challenge
Teen Challenge QLD is a not-for-profit organisation, established in 1971 to provide long-term residential treatment and rehabilitation services for men aged 18-45 and women aged 18-39 who are struggling to overcome addiction and other life controlling issues such as, self-harm, eating disorders, depression, and homelessness.
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The Salvation Army
The Salvation Army is the largest provider of homelessness services across the country. We support adults and families, and children with accommodation, case management, outreach support, financial assistance, connection and referral to other specialist services. Our philosophy is that every person deserves dignity, respect and quality of service and that no one should be without a safe, affordable and secure home
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UnitingCare
UnitingCare provides aged care, disability supports, health care, crisis accommodation and domestic and family violence services to the most vulnerable in our community.
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Youth Advocacy Centre
YAC provides legal services, youth support and family support assistance and services to young people generally aged 10 to 18 years (inclusive) who live in or around the greater Brisbane region, particularly those who are involved in, or are at risk of involvement in, the youth justice and/or the child protection systems; and/or are homeless or at risk of homelessness (up to 25)
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Youth Housing Project
Youth Housing Project (YHP) is a community organisation that provides supported housing for young people (aged 16 to 21 years) who are experiencing homelessness or at risk of becoming homeless.
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Collaborators
In addition to our Regional Members, the work of Brisbane Zero could not be possible without the support of our Collaborators - service providers that work with us in support of the outcomes to house and support services. Collaborators regularly participate in the weekly Brisbane Zero Service Coordination meetings, Steering Committee meetings, and other working groups and Brisbane Zero activities.
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Basic Rights Queensland
Basic Rights Queensland is a specialist statewide community legal centre, providing, free advice, advocacy, and legal services to vulnerable and disadvantaged people anywhere in Queensland. We provide high quality, independent advice, legal services. We work to uphold people’s rights to social security entitlement, freedom from discrimination and social justice in the workplace. Our main practice area is legal assistance with social security, disability discrimination, mental health legal service, and employment issues. We also do outreach at homeless drop-in centres and at the Brisbane Murri Court.
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BRIC Housing
Supporting people facing disadvantage to improve their lives and circumstances by providing suitable and affordable housing.
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Common Ground Queensland
Ending homelessness a person at a time with the communities in which we operate and creating supportive homes through effective public, private and comunity partnerships that respond to people's needs and improve well-being and connectedness.
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ESG360 - 360 Degree Sustainable Solutions
Creating best practice ESG360 Social Housing Projects involves a comprehensive approach that integrates sustainability, social responsibility, and strong governance. At the core of these projects is the commitment to providing affordable, safe, and quality housing that meets the needs of diverse communities while minimizing environmental impact.
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Footprints Inc
Footprints in Brisbane Inc. is a well-regarded not-for-profit provider of community-based services, working in the community for almost 30 years. We specialise in working with older people, those that experience disability, mental illness, as well as those who are at risk of homelessness.
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Homeless Health Outreach Team
We provide a mental health assessment, treatment and support service for homeless people who are experiencing mental health or drug and alcohol issues.
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Home in Place
Home in Place is one of Australia’s largest non-government social housing providers with over 35 years’ experience in providing secure and affordable housing, as well as delivering housing products for disadvantaged people who have difficulties sourcing adequate housing.
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The Lady Musgrave Trust
The Lady Musgrave Trust provides accommodation and support services throughout Brisbane and Ipswich, for young women between the age of 18 and 30 (and their children) who are in critical homeless situations suffering from domestic violence, family breakdown, poverty, poor health and other complex issues.
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LawRight
LawRight improves the lives of vulnerable people by increasing access to justice through strategic partnerships with pro bono lawyers.
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Macleod Accommodation Support Service
Our mission is to provide emergency refuge accommodation that is safe, supportive and welcoming for women and children escaping from family violence. We listen and respond to their individual needs, assisting women to rebuild their lives and live with confidence, free from violence.
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Open Arms - Veterans & Families Counselling
Open Arms – Veterans & Family Counselling was founded by Australia's Vietnam veterans. It is Australia’s leading provider of mental health assessment and counselling for Australian veterans and their families.
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Orange Sky
We have a simple formula; we provide a platform for every day Australians to connect through a regular laundry and shower service. The focus is on creating a safe, positive and supportive environment for people who are too often ignored or who feel disconnected from the community. Our volunteers are not social workers or experts on homelessness - they are empathetic listeners and great conversationalists.
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Peggy's Place
Peggy’s Place seeks to provide a safe place that helps families who have experienced DFV and transitioned through the refuge system to rebuild their lives. We will work collaboratively with the current service system, providing much-needed support, further strengthening our community’s many at-risk women and children.
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Q Shelter
For over 35 years, Q Shelter has worked as a peak body to improve housing outcomes for Queenslanders. Over this time, we have remained an unwavering voice for solutions through advocacy, strategic engagement and capacity building. Q Shelter’s primary focus is on: - Influencing solutions and policy - Building capacity through professional development and knowledge sharing - Sharing tools and resources to assist organisations to be effective - Provision of facilitation and backbone support to regional service groups.
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Queensland Department of Housing and Public Works
Working together with respect and compassion to influence change and deliver responsive services that build a healthy and connected Queensland.
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Queensland Police Service
Every day the Queensland Police Service, your police service, works tirelessly to ensure the safety and security of the community.
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Xstitch
We’re a social health start-up located in Brisbane, Australia. Our business-to-business model teams up with organisations that work with disadvantaged populations, to add health system and service capabilities. The Xstitch team embraces diverse perspectives on health equity.
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Zig Zag Young Women's Resource Centre Inc
Zig Zag is a community based not-for-profit organisation in Brisbane that provides a number of services to young women, trans and gender diverse young people aged 12-25 and the wider community. Services include counselling and support those aged 12 to 25 years who have experienced sexual assault and medium-term supported accommodation and housing support to women and gender diverse young people aged 16-25 years who are experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness.
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Partners
Brisbane Zero is able to make a difference thanks to the incredible support of our partners who provide us support in the wider context of Zero movements in Australia and internationally.
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Australian Alliance to End Homelessness (AAEH)
The Australian Alliance to End Homelessness (AAEH) is an independent champion for preventing and ending homelessness in Australia. We recognise that the scale of homelessness in Australia is both preventable and solvable and that despite the common misconception to the contrary, we can end homelessness in Australia. We are a community of practice that has, since 2013, supported organisations and local communities to work collaboratively to end homelessness in Australia, starting with rough sleeping.
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Community Solutions
Community Solutions is a nonprofit which works to create a lasting end to homelessness that leaves no one behind. In the United States, they lead the Built for Zero movement to end veteran and chronic homelessness, and they have supported Advance to Zero and the Perth Zero projects in Australia since their inception.
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Supporters
We’d also like to thank the many individuals and businesses who support our campaign to end rough sleeping in Brisbane. We couldn’t do this without you.
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Zeroseven
A digital development house working in partnership with clients on long term digital solutions that use best practice in design, development and usability. (Like this website!)
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Housing for Women’s Safety and Security Alliance
The Housing for Women’s Safety and Security Alliance is made up of a range of service providers and organisations who share the vision of no women or children will stay in a violent home due to a lack of housing options. No woman will return to a violent home due to a lack of safe, secure, and stable housing.
Our aim is to advocate for and address the Greater Brisbane housing shortage across the whole spectrum of housing needs for the most vulnerable women, and women with children, who are escaping family violence and experiencing homelessness at growing rates.
How you can get involved
Join the campaign
We’re always looking for new partners who believe, like us, that ending homelessness is possible. If you would like to partner with Brisbane Zero or be part of our steering committee, download the application form below or get in touch with us.
Get involved
Apply to partner with Brisbane Zero
Make a donation
With your ongoing monetary support we can continue to provide much needed services for the most vulnerable in our communities. We are currently taking donations for the Brisbane Zero campaign through our backbone organisation, Micah Projects.
Give now
Support the Brisbane Zero campaign to end homelessness.