BROKERAGE PROGRAM

OVERVIEW

The Launchpad brokerage program is vital to the organisation’s work, providing financial support to achieve housing outcomes and other case management goals. In 2015, the City of Sydney committed to providing Launchpad with $200,000 per year to extend the brokerage program. As a result, Launchpad has been able to establish working arrangements with other non-Specialist Homelessness Services in the City of Sydney area to ensure wrap-around support for clients. In return, these partner agencies are able to access brokerage funds for their clients.

AGENCY ACCESS

Agencies who accessed the Brokerage program included:

  • Childrens Civil Law service
  • CRC
  • Fact Tree
  • Family Spirit
  • Foyer Central
  • Glebe Youth Service
  • Good Shepherd
  • KRC
  • Lillian Howell Project
  • Mission Australia
  • The Ted Noffs Foundation
  • Oasis
  • Peipod
  • Reconnect
  • Salvation Army
  • Shopfront
  • The Crossing
  • The Girls Refuge
  • Twenty 10
  • Wayside
  • WEAVE
  • Youthblock
  • YWCA

OUR 2023/24 STATISTICS

517 Young People
received brokerage support.

GENDER IDENTITY OF BROKERAGE CLIENTS 2023-24

FEMALE

268
51.8%

MALE

206
39.8%

NON-BINARY

19
3.7%

TRANSGENDER

14
2.7%

OTHER

10
2%

CULTURAL BACKGROUND OF BROKERAGE CLIENTS 2023-24

ABORIGINAL AND/OR TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER

217
42%

BORN OVERSEAS

122
23.6%

OTHER

178
34.4%

BROKERAGE DISTRIBUTION 2023-24

ACQUIRING
IDENTIFICATION

65

BABY
NEEDS

44

CLOTHING

124

EDUCATIONAL/
VOCATIONAL

137

EMERGENCY
ACCOMMODATION

9

FOOD
VOUCHERS

794

GROCERIES

43

LEGAL
SUPPORT

2

MEDICAL/
HEALTH NEEDS

107

MOBILE
PHONE

63

OTHER

41

PHONE
CARDS

91

PROPERTY
MAINTENANCE

32

REMOVALIST
EXPENSES

102

RENT ARREARS
PAID

9

SETUP
BOND

13

SETUP
MATERIAL

310

STORAGE

2

TRANSPORT
(OUT OF AREA)

23

TRANSPORT
(GENERAL)

178