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Wombat Housing and Support Services provides services to people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless in the West of Melbourne.

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New Additions to Wombat’s Service

Maribyrnong Youth Accomodation Program

Wombat & The New Hope Foundation have been successful in a submission to establish a new service to provide homelessness assistance services to young people in Maribyrnong. Whilst the new service will focus on young people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, assistance will be available to all young people requiring housing in Maribrynong.

The new service has been named The Maribyrnong Youth Accommodation Program (MYAP).

The funding is provided through SAAP (Suppported Accommodation Assistance Program). The Program Manager for the new service is Rebecca Cleaver, the program workers are Alice Gaylor, Meseret Abebe and Samuel Malak.

In the partnership model developed Wombat will employ the staff and provide the housing support expertise and the New Hope Foundation will provide a service base at it's Footscray office, host joint team meetings with it's settlement workers and facilitate access to cultural groups.

Staff will rotate between New Hope's Footscray site and Wombat's office in North Melbourne. Two workers will be on-site in Footscray at all times.

Wombat & New Hope are very excited about this new innovative model of service delivery as it crosses two service sectors - homelessness (funded by DHS) and services to newly arrived communities (funded by Dept. of Immigration and Citizenship).

Referrals to the service can be made by contacting the MYAP team at New Hope on 9687 4500 or at Wombat on 8327 2222.

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Telephone (03) 8327 2222 1800 887 775 Fax: (03) 8327 2299
Email: wombat@wombat.org.au
191 Melrose St North Melbourne

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