A National Child and Youth Housing and Homelessness Plan, to Better Address the Complex Support Needs of Young People

Dr Rebecca Duell Quality Research and Innovation Senior Manager, Catherine Mann Research and Evaluation Coordinator.

Young people with complex support needs face a range of challenges and realities that a standalone National Child and Youth Housing and Homelessness Plan has the opportunity to address. Importantly, a national plan must not interpret homelessness as a ‘standalone issue’ or one that ends when young people are securely housed. Central to any national plan should be recognition of – and solutions to address – the broad range of co-occurring issues that drive and commonly arise as a result of homelessness.