Reform Process Future direction Sample Clauses

Reform Process Future direction. The ACT currently provides a high level of support and provides a high standard of accommodation services for people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness as indicated in the National Data Collection Annual Report 2008-2009 and the Counting the Homeless Report 2006. The issue to be addressed is that this system while doing a great job of supporting the homeless does very little to prevent homelessness in the first instance. The problem with the present system is that it is very expensive and needs to move towards a more contemporary approach adopted by somelessness services which focuses on prevention and support rather and roofs over head. Whilst additional funding has become available under the NPAH for the delivery of new initiatives the existing homelessness service sector also needs to be reformed in order to meet the NPA targets and to respond to the long term funding reductions for the ACT resulting from the Council on Australian Government’s NAHA funding changes. Although increasing the public housing stock will provide increased exit points for homeless individuals and families, additional non-accommodation support is also required to assist people to maintain tenancies by overcoming barriers to social and economic participation. Additional resources are required to address the needs of special target groups such as young people, Aboriginal and Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Islanders, victims of domestic violence, and those with mental health or substance abuse issues. Not all of these responses can be addressed by the homelessness service system but the reform priorities as set out in the ACT Road Map discussion paper lay out a key direction for the ACT in what the system should look like at the end of reform. The ACT reform objectives will require the redistribution of funding from less effective services to those services which focus on best practice service models.