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Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation announces million dollar funding
Today the Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation continued its commitment to reducing homelessness in Melbourne. The Foundation provided a grant of $1,000,000 to fund The Salvation Army's '24/7 Melbourne's Road Home'. Together with the $876,000 grant the Foundation provided to launch '24/7', it is the largest commitment to a homelessness program that the Foundation has made in its 88‐year history.
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More than 300 people have been assisted in the past 18 months, with 3,120 calls received by the crisis response team
24/7 Melbourne's Road Home is a 24/7 Community Response Team capable of providing both a mobile and centre-based response to homeless crisis situations in the Melbourne CBD and surrounding suburbs. This service can be accessed via a 24 hour telephone contact system connected to a mobile response team, which will be based at the Salvation Army's Project 614 at 69 Bourke Street, Melbourne.
The needs of those experiencing homelessness who are in the city or gravitating to the city require a service that will link them into support that will meet their particular needs. 24/7 Melbourne's Road Home will be a point of contact and resource to assist in connecting with other Melbourne based services; including Melbourne Citymission's Frontyard Youth Services and the St Kilda Crisis Centre.
The success of 24/7 Melbourne's Road Home lies not only with the Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation and Project 614, but also the community as a whole, as we work together to assist those experiencing homelessness. 24/7 Melbourne's Road Home will become an integral part of the homeless services provided in Melbourne and will work with the already existing key services to provide an integrated and partnership based service.
