The Advance to Zero is a campaign being run by a national collection of communities and organisations that are committed to ending all homelessness, starting with rough sleeping. In order to achieve it we will:

Engage, work with and train the Gold Coast community to know the people who are rough sleeping by name, as well as their needs

Work together to produce quality data to track progress in successfully housing people

Nominate people for the appropriate supply of housing and coordinate wrap around support services

Move people into housing and support them to stay housed

Ensure rough sleeping homelessness is rare, brief and a non-recurring experience for individuals and families.

To end homelessness we need real-time, accurate information of who is experiencing homelessness, where they are located, and the specific supports needed to ensure they can sustain long term housing.

Underpining the Gold Coast Zero Campaign is a shared, community owned database that coordinates service responses and triages their acuity of need.

Through the consistent use of a shared assessment tool called the VI-SPDAT, the Gold Coast Zero Campaign will deliver data driven responses for our community.

The Rough Sleepers Working Group brings together the key organisations working with people experiencing homelessness to coordinate our local responses.

Erradicating homelesness needs a whole of community response. To get involved, contact the GCHN by emailing us at admin@gchomelessnessnetwork.com