Chris Chamberlain and David MacKenzie estimate that 25,000 to 30,000 students experience a period of homelessness each year, and that most homeless students drop out of school. Since 1995, the early intervention perspective has been widely adopted around the country. This report focuses on three issues: understanding the main causes of, and pathways into youth...

This is the first Australian study to bring together the international evidence about the cost of homelessness across key government service areas as well as to societies and individuals - and the benefits achieved by intervening to prevent homelessness. On any one night the number of homeless in Australia is estimated at 60,000 to 105,000...

Using extensive case study analysis and field visits to schools, this report seeks to build a picture of the most effective intervention strategies to assist young people at risk of homelessness.

This is the first report from the project, Counting the Homeless in 2001, a research program focusing on Australia's homeless population at the time of the 2001 Census of Population and Housing. This report presents the main findings from the second national census of homeless school students, and estimates the total number of homeless young...