Homelessness and Human Rights - VCOSS

The following was received from the Victorian Council of Social Service:

VCOSS in partnership with the Council to Homeless Persons invites you to:

Homelessness and Human Rights

Using Human Rights as an advocacy tool for ending homelessness: ‘doing rights’ in casework, organisational change and law reform

Tuesday 16 November 2010

9.30am for 10am-1.00pm

Karstens at CQ Conference Centre, Level 3, 123 Queen Street Melbourne

Join us to explore how human rights can be used as an advocacy tool to end homelessness through:

• better outcomes for individuals;
• supporting practice and systems change in order to imbed a human rights culture in policy and practice in community sector organisations;
• ensuring increased consumer participation; and
• achieving policy and legislative change.

Panel presentations will be made by:

James Farrell, Manager/Principal Lawyer, PILCH Homeless Persons’ Legal Clinic;

Tiffany Overall, Advocacy and Human Rights Officer, Youthlaw;

Jason Rostant, Manager, Community Engagement, Planning and Development, Western Region Health;

Michelle Burrell, Chief Executive Officer, Council to Homeless Persons;

Consumer (TBC).

To register – please complete the attached registration form and return by Thursday 11 November to Jennifer Heaney at VCOSS on

Fax: (03) 9654 5749 or E: jennifer.heaney@vcoss.org.au.

For all forum enquiries, please contact Michelle Lane at VCOSS on

E:michelle.lane@vcoss.org.au or T: 9654 5050.

Please feel free to contact Christiane Gurner, Human Rights Resource Officer, regarding VCOSS work on Human Rights,

E: Christiane.gurner@vcoss.org.au or T: 9654 5050