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St John's Youth Services: Empowering homeless young people

Burdekin Place
Emergency accommodation service for young men aged 12 to 25 years.  The maximum length of stay is three weeks. This service is funded through the Supported Accommodation Assistance Program (SAAP)

Chisholm Place
Emergency accommodation service for young women aged 12 to 25 years, including young women with dependent children.  The maximum length of stay is three weeks. This service is funded through the Supported Accommodation Assistance Program (SAAP)

St John's Lodge
St John's Lodge is a lodging house that provides long term secure accommodation for homeless young people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds aged 16 to 25. This service receives no Government funding.  Funded through community support.

In-Service Child Support (from July 2006)

A specialist children's support service is available to dependent children and their mothers while they are residents in Chisholm Place. This service is funded through the Supported Accommodation Assistance Program (SAAP)

Starter Kits
A small grants program for young people leaving the emergency services that enables them to purchase those household goods essential to them successfully establishing themselves in rental accommodation. Funded through community support.

Beds and Bedding Program
A program that provides good quality used beds and packages of new bedding to young people leaving the emergency services to live in rental accommodation. Funded through community support.

Get-ya-Gear Program
A small grants program for young people residing in St Johns accommodation services to purchase new clothing, including underwear and sleep wear, shoes, business clothing for job interviews and school uniforms. Funded through community support.

Personal Assistance Program
A program that provides funds to young people to pay for essential persoal needs, for example the costs associasted with obtaining their birth certificate or drivers license, payment of school fees or educational books, obtaining prescribed medication, or transport costs to return to their family or escape violence when other funds are not available. Funded through community support.

Baby Kits
A program for young women in the emergency services who are pregnant, or who have small dependent children. Funded through community support.

Referrals

Emergency accommodation referrals must be made through:

         
            • Trace-a-Place, 80 Currie Street, Adelaide. Phone 8413 8150 or 1300 306 046 (during office hours), or
            • Crisis Care on 131 611 (after hours)

St John's Lodge referrals through:

            • Trace-a-Place, 80 Currie Street, Adelaide.  Phone 8413 8150 or 1300 306 046, or
          • Migrant Resource Centre, 51 King Willaim Street, Adelaide. Phone 82179500. 

 

 

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