The Deputy Chief Minister has announced the details of $3 million in funding to provide support to people facing homelessness or domestic and family violence arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Minister, Yvette Berry said the funding would allow the specialist homelessness sector and domestic and family violence services to expand their operational capacity and relieve the pressure of additional need during COVID-19 and throughout winter.
“The ACT Government has been working with these specialist service providers to understand how we can help them to continue operations during the pandemic,” Ms Berry said.
“The government is providing significant extra funding to increase the available temporary accommodation, expand service capacity to house rough sleepers and enable services to meet increased need from the Canberra community,” she said.
“This package will provide immediate financial support that will be complemented by Commonwealth funding for responding to family violence, which will be announced in the coming weeks.”
Ms Berry said the funding would support services for domestic and family violence to respond to situations and provide emergency accommodation to women, children and families in need of assistance.
She said funding would also target client support for OneLink to expand existing operations; accommodation support to provide both emergency and long-term accommodation for men, women and children; and provider support for community services organisations.
