Projects and campaigns
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○ Wellbeing
○ Disaster resilience
○ The energy health nexus
○ Listening Tour
○ Renters’ Rights
○ Food stress
○ ‘Poverty Maps’
Helping communities to thrive.
VCOSS works with communities and like-minded organisations to build resilience, promote inclusive growth and foster a strong social services sector.
This is in addition to our traditional policy development work.
Central to this work is our commitment to wellbeing approaches, and the desire for Victoria to formally embrace wellbeing as a guiding principal for our state.
The projects and work streams listed on this page are managed by VCOSS’ Thriving Communities and Policy and Advocacy teams.
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Wellbeing approaches
Embracing wellbeing means looking beyond conventional economic metrics like GDP.
It’s about measuring what matters, and doing what’s needed.
Poverty Maps
A new analysis of offiical Census and poverty data reveals a staggering 800,000 Victorians are living in poverty, including more than 200,000 kids.
This work has been done in partnership with economic modelling firm NATSEM.
Renters’ Rights
Helping the Victorian community understand Victoria’s evolving rental laws, while pushing for new phases of reform.
Tackling the energy-health nexus
Creating systematic change to tackle energy hardship from a new perspective.
Climate equity
Research and community outreach to ensure policymakers put fairness at the heart of Victoria’s climate response.
Disaster Resilience
Working with communities, social service organisations and emergency services to strengthen communities’ preparedness, response and recovery to emergencies.
Listening Tour
The simple act of listening has intrinsic value.
We’ve travelled the whole state and listened to communities’ needs and hopes—and the action they want for a better future.
Improving student placements
This project will help overcome challenges in the supply and quality of student placements in the community services sector.
Sector funding and regulation
VCOSS plays a key role advocating for better and more secure funding, and fair and sensible regulation, for Victoria’s social sector.
Community Services Industry Plan
The 10-Year Community Services Industry Plan presents a unified vision for the Victorian community services industry and the actions required to achieve this vision.
Human Services and Health Partnership Implementation Committee
The Human Services and Health Partnership Implementation Committee (HSHPIC) was established in 2004 to guide and implement the commitments of the 2002 Human Services and Health Partnership Agreement.
Strengthening Sector Resilience
VCOSS is working wth organisations providing disability information and advocacy services to build their capacity for the transition to the NDIS ILC (and other funding sources).
Key contacts
- Deborah Fewster
Director, Policy and Advocacy
Email Deb
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