ARC Justice’s 2014 Report to Community is an opportunity for our organisation to speak about our achievements and to foreshadow the challenges faced by our three programs: Loddon Campaspe Community Legal Centre, Goulburn Valley Community Legal Centre and Housing Justice. It is also an opportunity for us to engage with our community in a broader discussion […]
Funding should be restored to the Victorian Social Housing Advocacy Support Program (SHASP) in the wake of a report that found 78% of public housing tenants supported by the program avoided eviction and 73% engaged in repaying rent debts. A state-wide data collection project conducted from July – September 2013 by the SHASP managers’ network […]
This one day workshop is designed to provide information for appropriately assessing risk, identifying referral and intervention pathways, and discussing the issue of hoarding with clients and other services. The presentation will include case specific learning and a panel discussion with local practitioners. This collaborative training session will be facilitated by Senior Lecturer in Social Work […]
Courts and the community often struggle to find innovative solutions to offending that take into account the needs of victims and the community, and the need to support criminals to not re-offend. Increasingly, those of us who work in the law are looking to Restorative Justice as a viable alternative to more traditional retributive responses […]
Tenant Advocacy and Support is a program of the Advocacy and Rights Centre (ARC). ARC invites you to its… 2013 Report to Community Eviction in times of crisis Giving tenants a voice Listening to women’s experience of the law in family violence ARC’s 2013 Report to Community is an opportunity for the organisation to speak […]
The Board of Directors of the Advocacy and Rights Centre (Tenant Advocacy and Support’s parent organisation) cordially invites you to attend our 2012 Annual General Meeting. When? 4.30pm, Monday 12 November 2012 Where? The Capital Theatre, View Street, Bendigo This years Guest Speaker will be Hugh de Kretser, Executive Officer of the Federation of Community […]
> Are you in public housing? > Do you need repairs done? > Do you need advice? Tenant Advocacy and Support and Loddon Campaspe Community Legal Centre are helping local public housing tenants with maintenance and repairs issues GET IT FIXED! We will be at the following venues at the following times: Long Gully […]
SHASP services like ours are so stretched that often we don’t stop to think about promoting ourselves and our work and the needs of the clients we assist. In 2011/12 Tenant Advocacy and Support assisted 721 SHASP clients. Dan was one of those clients. We don’t have the money to produce a schmecko video (if […]
The Save SHASP Campaign momentum is building with the launch of a new website: http://www.noshaspcuts.com/ The website lays out the facts and explains how the state government’s funding cuts to this essential service are likely to affect some of the most vulnerable tenants in Victoria. The site is integrated with social media so it’s easy to […]
Tenant Advocacy Support is one of several services across Victoria that assists social and public housing tenants. In our case, we service the Loddon Campaspe region. Our service, like the others, falls under the State Government’s Social Housing Advocacy & Support Program (SHASP). Without services like ours, many public and social housing tenants are at risk of […]
