Above: Collage of 3 photos of new city hub accommodation for women experiencing homelessness
Top left: bedroom with single bed and hanging space, Bottom left: kitchenette and Left: Bathroom with shower, basin and toiletry cabinet
A new 10-bed, short-term supported accommodation service is now open in the CBD, offering refuge and peace for women.
The Toward Home Alliance, Baptist Care SA and Carrington Cottages will collaborate to run the program providing both accommodation and support to women in furnished units at Wright Place. The collaboration is supported by the SA Housing Authority which funds homelessness services in South Australia.
The pilot program increases short-term accommodation options available to women and provides a diversion from their moving deeper into the homelessness system.
Each unit has its own ensuite, with the stability of a safe place to stay enabling clients to engage with supports to gain and maintain a tenancy and recover from their experience of homelessness.
Underpinned by THA’s Mission to ‘Work together to prevent and end homelessness’, Wright Place is a testament to the goodwill, innovation and collaboration of South Australia’s community services sector.
Baptist Care SA, a leading South Australian not-for profit organisation is contributing the Wright Place building at no cost; the Toward Home Alliance is providing case management and on-site supports, and Carrington Cottages tenancy supports. Referrals to the service are through the Toward Home Alliance.
In addition to supporting tenants’ immediate housing needs, Wright Place will also provide support impacting wellbeing. Wrap around supports will help address mental and physical health challenges, family and domestic violence issues, connections with culture and community, and experiences of trauma.
Wright Place provides an important and needed addition to the limited crisis and emergency accommodation options for women across South Australia, particularly for those who are also victims of family and domestic violence.
