YEETI Exchange Newsletter:
THe first YEETI Exchange newsletter is now available! YEETI Aims to bring the newsletter to you every 3 months. If you would like to go on the YEETI Mailing list to ensure that you receive it in the future, email sslattery@mcm.org.au
YEETI Exchange Newsletter No 1 - August 2007: download
YEETI Exchange - Youth Homelessness Support tool
At the "YEETI Exchange - Your Clients, Their Rights. Welfare to Work, what you need to know" held on the 27th of June Colleen Cartwright (Manager - Employment, Education, Training Support Unit at Melbourne Citymission) and Jodi Brown (Team Leader at Western Region Accommodation Program) presented an advocacy and support tool designed to support young people when there cicumstances chang and they interact with Centrelink and when they attend a Job Capacity Assessment.
The tool is currently being developed and a trial at several agencies across the state will be conducted early in 2008.
Keep an eye out for further information coming soon!
YEETI Review Reports
The YEETI Reviews, completed by David Crawford, the YEETI Project Worker are now available. In early August 2006 Melbourne Citymission began investigating the impact of YEETI assistance by surveying programs that utilised YEETI funding through: Managing Personal Futures Packages in Round 5 and Discretionary Funding between Jan 06 - June 06.
YEETI would like to thank the services and young people from across Victoria who took part in the YEETI reviews below. Valuable information was gained through the research and writing of there reports.
Victoria University has assessed data on how YEETI funds are being utilised. Read the summary report Here
