CatholicCare Social Services - Diocese of Parramatta (CCSS) and Churches
Housing Inc are co-hosting a Community Forum on Homelessness to help promote
discussion of homelessness and to examine possible solutions.
The forum will be held at Parkroyal
Parramatta (30 Phillip Street) on Tuesday 8 November from 9.30am to 1.30pm.
As the cost of living continues to soar in Western Sydney and rents remain
high, there is an urgent need for investment in public and supported
housing. The forum will feature experts in the field as well as people who
have experienced homelessness.
Most Rev Anthony Fisher OP, Catholic Bishop of Parramatta, will host the
Forum lunch.
The Forum’s MC will be Noel Debien, producer of Sunday
Nights on ABC Radio.
Forum presenters
Rev Derek Yule – Executive
Officer of Churches Housing Inc and Chair
of the Community Housing Federation of Australia;
Rosemary Bishop – Chair of
Affordable Community Housing Ltd (ACHL) in NSW and CEO of the Mamre Project
at St Marys, NSW;
Tanya Gadiel – Chief Executive of Parramatta Mission’s community services
division; and
Cathy Tracey – Senior Manager, Family & Community Support with CatholicCare
Parramatta.
There is no charge to participate in the Forum but bookings are essential:
RSVP: Tuesday 1 November to CCSS
- tel (02) 9933 0222
Churches Housing Inc AGM
You are also invited to attend the Churches Housing Inc 2011 AGM on
Wednesday 9 November from 10.30am to1.30pm.
Speakers: Richard
Perkins – Chair of Churches Housing; Robert
Fitzgerald –Commissioner,
Productivity Commission; Maree O’Halloran – President of National Welfare Rights.
Venue: Parramatta
Park Event Centre, enter via Parramatta Park Gatehouse, cnr Pitt & Macquarie
Sts, Parramatta, or via Queens Rd, Westmead.
RSVP: Wednesday
2 November to Collette Thatcher tel (02) 9633 5999 or
collette.thatcher@churcheshousing.org.au
