Hanover Young Adults Services
Community Service in Stonnington

Launch Housing will continue the labor of both Hanover and HomeGround, to promote people experiencing homelessness. By joining together, we are able to boost capacity and strengthen the response to a growing demand on our services, and produce housing outcomes for thousands of people experiencing homelessness each year. Hanover is a leading Melbourne based community agency. We are independent and have no structural links with churches, institutions or governments. We provide a range of services to Victorians experiencing housing crisis or homelessness. Our services include crisis, lenient and lengthy term accommodation, urge and education and training and employment solutions. Hanover provides support to individuals and families to address the issues that led to them being homeless. Hanover works to engage our clients in education and training this ranges from supporting children experiencing homelessness to stay in school through to providing support to adult clients in vocational education and training to further their employment prospects. A number of Hanover’s programs help people to address issues prior they last up losing their home. This involves financial assistance as well as helping to improve budgeting and finance skills and building confidence to navigate the services they need. Please receive time to read a few of their stories. To empower people who are homeless, or at near risk of becoming so, to enable them to take greater regulate over their lives. To honor our history and achievements, Hanover’s Board of Directors want to resist themselves and the organization to construct even further on our great work of empowerment and change. Empowerment means that we will eternal promote and prosper programs which enable clients to change their lives for the lengthy term. It means working with people to get skills and employment and active with families to make safe their children are not only housed but in school as well. It also means working with clients to enable them to improve or manage their health so that it is not the cause of recurring homelessness. Empowerment means busy with whole communities to cease people from becoming homeless in the first place. We will certainly be held to greater account by our fenders who will require us to deliver outcomes rather than throughput. Our most crucial resource is our people and we want to invest over the next five years to ensure that our staff are supported to learn, to challenge, to innovate, to be ingenious and to continue their mighty focus on achieving outcomes for clients. We also need to grow our financial resources. Across our seven Melbourne sites we have more than 200 staff, an Executive and Leadership team, and a different and committed Board of Directors working together to achieve our mission and values. A wide range of community service agencies, businesses, government agencies and corporate organizations partner with us to support this work. Hanover is fortunate to have urge from a number of organizations, our partners stretch from a bakery which provides bread for clients in Cheltenham, a local council which supports one of our education programs, a playgroup at Bob’s Place’ in Dandenong, a community health center that works with our outreach team through to corporate partners who provide financial encourage and funding in encourage of our mission. Hanover is a leading agency that provides a expansive range of services to people experiencing homelessness or housing.

Our labor to assist people experiencing homelessness is only made conceivable through the generosity of people who donate. Hanover was founded in 1964 as one of the first specialist homeless promote agencies in Melbourne. Our name is taken from Hanover Street in Fitzroy, where the organization was first based. Hanover’s visionary founders were clear that it was to be an agency diverse from other homelessness service providers. It was to be an organization driven by evidence and one which recognized its clients as active citizens, with dignity, aspirations, talents and strengths. It was also to be an agency which led change. Reflecting the social and policy movements under which it was formed, Hanover was established with no structural links to governments, churches or institutions and incorporated as a nonprofit company managed by a board of directors. Over the former 45 years this scope has broadened significantly and our labor now covers Victorians of all ages and life stages. Research has eternal been at the core of Hanover’s work, evidence of this can be found in the latter extract from the findings of the Interim Committee which established Hanover in 1964: Much explicit information is required as a basis for planning further work with the men. Clients case records would be compiled to allow elucidation of normal patterns, and special examine might be made of such subjects as excessive drinking and employment difficulties. The hasty 1970s also saw a s