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Our Strategy

The Western Australian Alliance Strategy to End Homelessness seeks to prevent, reduce and resolve all homelessness in WA.

Our aim

The Western Australian Alliance Strategy to End Homelessness seeks to prevent, reduce and resolve all homelessness in WA. We know that we will have achieved this when homelessness is rare, brief and once-off.

To achieve this aim, we need to learn and design solutions around our five primary drivers and be informed by our values, principles and mindsets as outlined in our Charter.

Our role is to promote a network of solutions towards ending homelessness by acting as a backbone to ensure all activities are aligned and in support of our aim.

Our Strategy

Our Strategy

In 2018, the WAAEH led the nation as the first state to have developed and launched a whole-of-community strategy towards ending homelessness.

In 2023, we updated the WAAEH Strategy for achieving an end to homelessness in Western Australia, in an effort to ensure the Strategy continues to evolve alongside the complex and changing nature of homelessness. 

Ending homelessness is possible, and our updated strategy provides a clearer picture of the work that needs to occur going forward to make this happen. It also details what can be done across local government, organisations and business to align our efforts towards ending homelessness.

Our Strategy

Aim statement

Our ending homelessness strategy is to prevent, reduce and resolve all homelessness in WA – starting with rough sleeping.

We know that we will have achieved this when homelessness is rare, brief and once-off.

Enablers

We know that there is no single solution to homelessness. We believe in fostering an ecosystem of solutions. We know that at the heart of systems change we need to invest in strong relationships, build trust, foster collective accountability and responsibility as well as have a strong commitment to networked action.

Driven by lived experience

Our Alliance Steering Committee (ASC) has two dedicated roles for people with Lived Experience, Youth and Adult and we include a minimum of two PwLE in all workshops and improvement teams.

Culturally informed

We have a dedicated First Nations representative on our ASC, work closely with local ACCO’s and facilitate Cultural Community of Practice.

Advance to Zero framework (including Housing First)

The AtoZ work in WA is embedded on our website and reflects the collaborative nature of the movement.

Place-based and cohort-specific

The Zero projects currently operating in WA ensure communities are empowered to make the best decisions for their people.

Scaling what works

Using the PDSA (Plan, Do, Study & Act) cycle within the strategy improvement projects, we seek to scale those outcomes that have lead to improvements

Systems leadership and advocacy

Being a strong voice for systems reform aligned to our strategy and based on real time evidence (data).

Primary drivers

Our solutions to ending homelessness are designed around our five primary drivers.

Join us in our mission to end homelessness

We invite communities, individuals, organisations, businesses, and all levels of government to join us in our ongoing mission to end homelessness in Western Australia.

Sign our Charter