This project is a joint initiative between the Council to Homeless Person’s Homelessness Advocacy Service, the Department of Justice and the Homeless Person’s Legal Clinic.
The DVD provides an inspiring and intimate journey into the relationship between poverty, family violence and homelessness, and a poignant reminder to pro bono lawyers as to why their work is so important.
For most Australians the image of homelessness is either an elderly man with a mental health or alcohol problem or a young person hitting the high time in the city. (Society of St Vincent de Paul 2000, p.3)
The DVD presents six animations, each of which tells the story of an individual who has experienced homelessness. Their pathways in and out of homelessness are all unique and collectively help to show the bigger picture of who the homeless really are in our society. Their stories touch on issues many of us might prefer not to deal with – family and domestic violence, bullying, poverty, divorce, fragile self-images, sometimes drug and alcohol issues and more often than not, pure old-fashioned bad luck.
