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Cabrini Health Helps Break
the Cycle of Homelessness




		Cabrini Health provides "hands on" assistance to agencies supporting the homeless.





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			Learn about the Cabrini Linen Service outreach to the disenfranchised,

It is estimated that 105,000 Australians are homeless on any given night. Between 30% and 40% of these people are trapped in a cycle of homelessness. The current crisis-oriented homeless service results in a fragmented approach that is not only costly but rarely assists people to actually break the cycle.

Cabrini Health is pleased to support the Journey to Social Inclusion (J2SI) project which was launched earlier this year by St Kilda's Sacred Heart Mission. Sacred Heart Mission will be working through a groundbreaking project over the next 3 years with the aim of addressing this devastating social problem. The project aims to address the huge social and personal costs of chronic homelessness by getting people back on their feet.

Cabrini Health is contributing $150,000 over the three year life of the project.

Managing someone’s chronic homelessness is a costly and fruitless exercise. It costs on average between $30,000 and $35,000 per year, and rarely assists people to break the cycle.

Sacred Heart Mission’s J2SI will demonstrate that a long term, well resourced and intensive service can permanently end a person’s chronic homelessness. It will also demonstrate that this investment will generate significant economic savings by putting an end to the useless recurrent expenditure that manages rather than ends a person’s chronic homelessness.

Over three years, Sacred Heart Mission will work intensively with 40 people who are chronically homeless to address past traumas, the causes of their homelessness, provide comprehensive counseling and treatment, build their skills, and assist people to reconnect to the community.

This $3.8 million three year project has been funded by philanthropic trusts, foundations and the State Government, including Cabrini Health. It aims to prove the significant social and economic advantages of addressing this significant societal issue.

Cabrini is proud to be a sponsoring partner of this initiative which it is hoped, will ultimately result in helping to break the cycle of homelessness.

Cabrini Health is also pleased to support the provision of a number of services to homeless/marginalized people through St Mary’s House of Welcome, The Way Community, The Wellington Community Centre as well as the St Kilda Parish Mission Drop in Centre.

Cabrini Health is pleased to be taking up the invitation of the Stella Maris Province to develop bold new ways of meeting unmet needs in the community.

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