The 1990s
In the 1990s, Melbourne Citymission made a strategic decision to develop responses to youth homelessness. Services developed include three crisis accommodation services:
- ‘Stopover’, an emergency accommodation, housing and support program for young people set up in 1989
- Young Women’s Crisis Service, which includes an outreach service set up in 2005 and a refuge to open in July 2007
- Western Region Accommodation Program, an emergency accommodation, housing and support program for young people set up in 1994.
Melbourne Citymission
For 155 years, Melbourne Citymission has worked with disadvantaged people across Melbourne and Victoria. Every week we help thousands of people build a clear pathway out of disadvantage, economic exclusion and social isolation.
Our services support:
- people to find a pathway out of homelessness
- disabled people to get the resources and support they need to live the life they want
- people to break the cycle of poverty and abuse
- people to find jobs, or enter into education and training.
