Projects and campaigns
Working to reduce poverty and disadvantage in Victoria
VCOSS leads and supports projects that directly address the causes and consequences of poverty, social and economic disadvantage, and other forms of hardship. This work sits alongside our ongoing policy development, bringing together research, advocacy, community engagement, and sector strengthening.
We partner with community organisations, support the sector’s capacity to respond, and connect those working toward similar ends. Where disadvantage is entrenched, we push for systemic change.
The projects and work streams listed on this page are managed by VCOSS’ Community and Sector Development and Policy and Advocacy teams.
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Key contacts:
- Jonathon Gurry
Acting Director, Policy and Advocacy
Email Jonathon - Julie Robertson
Director, Community and Sector Development
Email Julie
Growing social housing
Housing advocates call for Victoria to build 80,000 new social homes in the next 10 years to address the state’s housing crisis.
Disaster resilience
Working with communities, social service organisations and emergency services to strengthen communities’ preparedness, response and recovery to emergencies.
Renters’ rights
VCOSS is helping renters understand Victoria’s evolving tenancy laws, while pushing for new reform.
Electrify Victoria
VCOSS strongly supports getting fossil gas out of homes. Electrification is the best pathway to decarbonising the residential sector, and efficient electric appliances are cheaper to run, healthier, and create fewer emissions.
Improving student placements
This project helps overcome challenges in the supply and quality of student placements in the community services sector.
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.
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).
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Key contacts
- Jonathon Gurry
Acting Director, Policy and Advocacy
Email Jonathon - Julie Robertson
Director, Community and Sector Development
Email Julie
VCOSS acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Country, and we pay respect to Elders and Ancestors. Our business is conducted on sovereign, unceded Aboriginal land. The VCOSS offices are located on Wurundjeri Woiwurrung land in central Naarm.