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Voices from the Margins - A Snapshot

Micah Projects Inc requested a survey of a pool of people currently sleeping rough in Brisbane to inform the practice and services responses to people who are homeless and sleeping rough. Whilst Micah workers have contact with people in many different ways the organisation was seeking a point in time reflection of the issues of current rough sleepers.

Micah Homelessness Services offers a range of services to this group including accommodation assessment, referral and brokerage, transport, advocacy with mainstream services, family and individual support to access and maintain housing.

In order to continuously improve services and understand how the organisation can develop more focused early intervention responses for the chronically homeless, a survey was commissioned by Micah Projects Inc to provide data on barriers to housing this group. In all thirty one people were surveyed.