Pacific Link Housing: Together Home Project

Between May 2022 and June 2023, the University of Newcastle partnered with Pacific Link Housing to examine lessons emerging from delivery of the Together Home program on the Central Coast. Together Home is funded by the NSW Department of Communities and Justice with the goal of supporting people experiencing homelessness (particularly those street sleeping) to obtain long-term housing and improved personal wellbeing. Pacific Link is the Together Home community housing provider for the Central Coast region, and this program facilitated linkages across various parts of the health and human service systems in the area. The University of Newcastle and Pacific Link worked together to understand what it takes, in addition to providing a house, to support individual people in moving from long-term homelessness into healthy, safe and socially connected lives. 

This research project worked closely with human services practitioners involved in the delivery of Together Home, to learn about what…