Liberals pledge $2.2M to extend Health on Streets program
The Liberal Party has pledged more than $2.2M to extend the Health on the Streets Program (HoTS) program, delivered by Coast and Country Primary Care, for three years if re-elected…
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Coast Shelter launches position paper on domestic violence
Coast Shelter has suggested six major strategies in its position paper on Breaking the Cycle of Domestic Violence, officially launched on April 28. Firstly, the paper says, governments must invest…
Housing affordability looms as a major election issue
With almost 3,000 people on the waiting list for public housing on the Central Coast, local community housing provider Compass Housing is calling on more Federal Government support for the…
Call for more measures to address homelessness
The not-for-profit organisation Social Futures, which delivers the NDIS and StandBy support programs on the Central Coast, says two new reports highlight an ever-growing housing crisis Australia-wide and has come…
Sleepout raises $88K
The Central Coast community has raised more than $88,500 through Coast Shelter’s 2021 Sleepout. After a few false starts due to COVID-19 restrictions, the sleepout was finally held at Central…
Over $900,000 federal funding for mobile health clinic
The Federal Government is supporting people across the Central Coast who experience homelessness with $945,000 in funding for the Health on the Streets (HoTS) program. HoTS is a mobile health…
HoTS delivers care to rough sleepers
Coast and Country Primary Care’s (CCPC) Health on The Streets (HoTS) service has continued to run regular hubs at Mary Macs Place, Woy Woy, every Monday from 10am-1pm during the…
Women taking action against homelessness
The Country Women’s Association’s Umina Beach branch has put the call out for ‘urgent’ action on social and affordable housing options in rural and regional NSW through a new ‘sleep…
Bags of kindness help the homeless
Don Cannings of The Entrance Rotary Club has been busy supplying 40 Random Acts of Kindness Bags to Coast and Country Primary Care (CCPC) in Erina on August 27 to…
Sleepout raises thousands more than expected
The 12 Central Coast teams who participated in the Vinnies Community Sleepout last Friday have already collected $24,604 to raise awareness of homelessness and to support those people sleeping rough….
Program opens door to long-term housing
Uniting Doorways Central Coast has over 700 people pass through its doors each year. The 12-month program aims to support people to find housing, education and access a variety of…
Vinnies Community Sleepout is on again
Central Coast residents will unite with communities throughout the state as part of the NSW Vinnies Community Sleepout on Friday, August 27. Following on from the record success of the…
The Weekly Video News 5@5
Coast Community Video News 5@5, May 28. Coming up this week: Council to recover money from delinquent ratepayers – Whales are on the move – New road technology announcement –…
Shelterbags for Coast’s homeless
Four hundred rough sleepers on the Central Coast will soon be given a warm place to sleep, thanks to a project run by committee members from The Rotary Club of…
Doing the math on homelessness
Forum – Adam Crouch says that the Together Home programme has transitioned 26 homeless people into housing (“Housing programme sets homeless on new pathways”, PP 011) and that this has…
Together Home program to reduce the number of people sleeping rough
A consortium of Aboriginal service providers based in the northern suburbs will deliver a $1.3M expansion of the NSW Government’s Together Home program to reduce the number of people sleeping…
Unprecedented number of inquiries from people who are or are about to be homeless
The Labor MPs of the Central Coast are calling on the State Government to provide immediate relief for renters under stress as they deal with an unprecedented number of inquiries…
Decline in rough sleepers
Coast Shelter has welcomed news that the number of people sleeping rough on the Central Coast has been reduced by 53 per cent in the last 12 months, as revealed…
Action on Housing Older Women forum
A forum will be held at Tuggerah in March to tackle housing stress on the Central Coast, especially for women aged over 55, who are the fastest growing sector of…
Orange Sky Australia is back in action with 57 volunteers
Orange Sky Australia, the world’s first free mobile laundry service for people experiencing homelessness, is back up and running on the Coast. Launched in Brisbane in 2014 to improve hygiene…