Great Lakes Manning Youth Homelessness Support Service

This service supports young people aged 16 – 24 years old, who are experiencing homelessness or at risk of becoming homeless to enable access to crisis accommodation and support in the Great Lakes, Gloucester and Greater Taree area.. This service operates 24 hours 7 days a week. It also supports young people leaving care or other institutions.

It provides client-centred homelessness support services including prevention and early intervention, rapid rehousing, crisis and transition response, and intensive responses for young people with complex needs. The service provides support to young people to secure and maintain stable accommodation.

A key focus of the service is to ensure young people will be supported to access, maintain or re-enter education, training and/or employment.

The service has a strong focus on responses for Aboriginal young people and is accessible to young people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.