Our target client base is homeless families or families at risk of becoming homeless. A family consists of one adult and an accompanying child or children.

The definition of homelessness according to SAAP Act 1994 is:

"a person is homeless if and only if he or she has inadequate access to safe and secure housing"

The legislation also outlines factors that effect access to safe and secure housing and contribute to the risk of homelessness. These include situations where the only housing to which a person has access;

Damages or is likely to damage the person's health
Threatens the persons safety
Marginalises the person through failing to provide access to adequate personal amenities of the economic and social supports that a home normally affords.
Places the person in circumstances that threaten or adversely affect the adequacy, safety, security and affordability of that housing.

Homelessness also includes those who have no fixed abode or are sleeping rough. For the Aboriginal culture homelessness has a slightly different aspect. While including the list above there is also a spiritual form of homelessness that is associated with being separated from home, family and their land.