The Geelong Project: 'A community of schools and youth services' model

The Geelong Project is one of eleven innovations projects funded under the Victorian Government's Homelessness Action Plan. The development of a community of schools and youth services model in Geelong preceded this funding opportunity, but the alignment of significant funding with an important community-driven research and development project is an historically fortuitous confluence. As well as Department of Human services (DHS) funding, there is Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD) funding under Youth Partnerships and Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA) homelessness research funding via Swinburne and a component of Higher Education Participation and Partnerships Program (HEPPP) funding through Swinburne.