How to Register
Once a group of people from a community have discussed and agreed to participate please register by contacting: info@aaeh.org.au
Prior to the Action Lab we will also ask your community to fill out a brief survey, including the details of participants in the Lab.
Cost
The cost for each community to participate is $1,980 inc GST. Once you have registered we will send you an invoice.
Action Lab Background
For the last three years the AAEH has been working closely with Community Solutions, the American non-profit that pioneered much of the Australian methodology through the Built For Zero campaign in the US. Their efforts have so far helped 13 American communities reach and sustain functional zero homelessness for various cohorts of homelessness. Their efforts were also a major part of launching Built for Zero Canada, which has driven significant reductions in a number of communities in Canada.
Here in Australia, coaches from Community Solutions have worked with five Australian communities to help them build quality by-name lists of people experiencing homelessness -- the essential first step to ending homelessness. Three teams have achieved that mark and begun reducing their number of rough sleepers, and the other two are super close. We have also been working closely with organisations like the Institute of Global Homelessness, Org Code and others to inform this work.
What to Expect
We structure our work with Community Solutions around six-month ‘action cycles,’ which usually start and end with in-person, three-day Action Labs. Obviously, COVID-19 means it’s not safe for all of us to gather in one place and rules out our American friends joining us. We have therefore created an online Action Lab intended to help you and your colleagues start to implement this methodology. The below gives an indication of the type of things we’ll cover:
- Advance to Zero Homelessness Methodology & vision for 2021;
- The Story of Zero and value of defining an end state;
- The By Name List: The Essential First Step to Ending Homelessness;
- The concept and measuring functional zero;
- The Advance to Zero data management infrastructure;
- The by-name list approach and scorecard; and
- Building an improvement team.
One of the best parts about the Action Labs is the ability to make connections with and learn from other communities across Australia that are undertaking a similar journey.
Essential Preparation
What else should you do beforehand:
I hope that you can be part of this important event. Please get in touch if you have any questions.