This year’s conference program is packed full of essential conversations, including keynote addresses and plenaries, along with networking sessions and the Victorian Homelessness Achievement Awards.
Learn from leaders of the sector, people with lived experience of being without a home, and experts from home and abroad.
Day One
9am: Welcome
Jane Barnes, Chair CHP
9.20am: Welcome to Country
9.35am: Ministerial Address
The Hon. Colin Brooks, Minister for Housing
9.50am: Keynote Address
Effective Systems to End Homelessness
Professor Eoin O’Sullivan, Trinity College Dublin
11am: Morning Tea
11.30am: Plenary Panel
A safe home: Unfinished business from the Royal Commission into Family Violence
12.40pm: Lunch
1.30pm: Concurrent Sessions
Addressing housing barriers for LGBTIQ+ Victorians
A introduction to Person Centred Practice
TBC
Changing the system: lessons from a decade of campaigns
2.40pm: Afternoon Tea
3.10pm: Plenary Panel
Empowering Change: Recognising peer support workers as experts in our sector
4.20pm: VHA 2023
Announcing the recipients of the Victorian Homelessness Achievement Awards.
5pm: Networking
Join us for drinks and nibbles, as you continue the conversation with your colleagues in the sector.
Day Two
9.10am: Day Two Welcome/Day One Recap
9.20am: Keynote and Panel
A new model for youth housing in Victoria
10.30am: Morning Tea
11am: Plenary Panel
Mana-Na Woorn-Tyeen Maar-Takoort: Every Aboriginal Person Has a Home
12.10pm: Lunch
1pm: Concurrent Sessions
Pregnancy, young parents and babies and Homelessness
The essential role supportive housing in ending homelessness
Explore Family Inclusive Approaches – What does that look like in your Practice?
Aging in a Housing Crisis
2.10pm: Keynote Debate
Can we coordinate our way to ending homelessness in Victoria?
3.20pm: Conference Close
Deborah Di Natale, CEO, Council to Homeless Persons