Logan Advance to Zero Homelessness project
Through a partnership with Micah Projects and the Australian Alliance to End Homelessness, the Logan Advance to Zero Homelessness Project will commence in Logan City with the aim of reducing overall homelessness in Logan City and end rough sleeping by 2025. Led by YFS in Logan, this is a community-based project to build support to […]
YFS emergency support during the lockdown
From 4pm Saturday 31 July to 4pm Tuesday 3 August 2021, people in South-East Queensland are required to stay at home except for essential reasons. This includes people living and working in Logan City. Please don’t panic buy. Shops will remain open. Everyone can get food and other emergency supplies such as medication. During the […]
YFS launches Thriving Families Evaluation Report
YFS recently launched an evaluation of our Thriving Families demonstration project during an event hosted by the Community Services Industry Alliance. Thriving Families was a YFS-funded trial of an integrated response to homeless young families. The project brought together a Housing Specialist and some Family Coaches to help families with young children get housed fast, […]
Spark takes practical steps to get people working
The ABC recently profiled YFS initiative Spark employment mentoring. Our Spark employment mentor takes very practical action to help people increase their income so they can maintain or gain stable housing. Funded by the Queensland Government Department of Communities, Housing and Digital Economy through the Dignity First program, Spark’s one-person team has supported 150 people […]
YFS is calling on the Queensland Government to address the state’s housing crisis
YFS is calling on the Queensland Government to address the state’s housing crisis. There are 47,036 Queenslanders on the state’s social housing register, a number significant enough that it would constitute Queensland’s 5th largest town. All 47,000 people do not have a safe and stable home. The housing situation in Logan is becoming dire. We […]
Logan young people inform animated videos about consent
Peer educators from our R4Respect initiative recently partnered with RizeUp and Storybooq Animations & Design to work on an four-part animation series that explains sexual consent in terms young children can understand. The videos were recently featured on The Morning Show. The segment briefly discussed the widespread community backlash the federal government received over its […]
Check in and you’re good to go!
We’re using the new Check In Qld app to help keep you COVID safe the next time you visit. All you need to do is: visit www.covid19.qld.gov.au/check-in-qld for links to download the app from Google Play or Apple App stores enter your details once when you first open the app open the app when you […]
Services to be cut in Queensland’s looming domestic violence funding ‘catastrophe’, advocates warn | ABC News
ABC News website, Sunday 11 April 2021 ABC TV 7pm Queensland news, Sunday 11 April 2021 (starts at 12 minutes 22 seconds) Queensland domestic violence services warn there could be a “catastrophic” effect on survivors of abuse, with wait list times to go “through the roof”, and lives potentially lost, when federal government funding runs out […]
Common and not often reported, elder abuse is domestic and family violence
Yarrabilba Bulletin | April 2021 Sadly, elder abuse is common and it’s often not reported in the media. The team at Logan’s community legal centre YFS Legal say this form of domestic and family violence happens in more settings than just aged care facilities. It frequently happens at home. The World Health Organisation says elder […]
Coronavirus pandemic to poverty pandemic | ABC News
Coronavirus pandemic to poverty pandemic Revised JobSeeker payments will impact family budgets, leave people homeless, advocates say – ABC News YFS is bracing for the impacts of the reduction in Jobseeker and Parenting payments with the ending of coronavirus supplement payments on 1 April. ABC journalist Jessica Stewart interviewed Logan man Michael Morris, who has […]