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In acknowledgement of National Sorry Day and National Reconciliation Week, here at inCommunity, we undertook a whole-of-organisation reflection. As a busy specialist housing and homelessness service with teams delivering a variety of services across different sites and at different times, we set up a culturally safe and respectful online team channel to discuss what these days mean to us. Centred on a podcast featuring Elders discussing National Sorry Day as a starting point for the Read more

Every day, inCommunity Inc. and our brands, inCommunity Connect, Tenancy Skills Institute, and Beddown, seek to work as an organisation not only to support First Nations Peoples to thrive, but also to recognise the important space that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ histories and cultures have within our community. As part of our team’s whole-of-organisation team activity this week, we are reflecting on the importance of National Reconciliation Week, including how we can continue Read more

This week, the Queensland Homelessness Conference is happening in Gimuy/Cairns, and our CEO Paul and Deputy CEO Nerissa are contributing to this important event. Gleaning insights into homelessness responses from a diverse and deep pool of expertise across the state, whilst contemplating how we move forward to deliver an informed and tangible pathway to end the experience of homelessness for Queenslanders. A key focus of the PIVOT Movement launching at the conference, for which inCommunity Read more

Today is National Sorry Day, a day where inCommunity Inc., and our brands of inCommunity Connect, Tenancy Skills Institute and Beddown, respectfully recognise the sorrow and trauma experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People from the forcible removal of children from their families. In 2026, it has been almost thirty years since the first National Sorry Day was held on 26 May 1998, one year after the Bringing Them Home report was tabled in Read more

Now settled into a new home, Judy shares here how she met inCommunity Connect when she and her young son were experiencing housing insecurity. Moving through our Assertive Outreach Program to our Immediate Housing Response programs, in partnership with the Department of Housing, Judy reflects on the courage it took to ask for help and the boost she felt after connecting with her case manager on her family’s pathway to stable housing. Listen to Judy’s Read more

Today is Youth Homelessness Matters Day, a national day that asks the Australian community to pause and reflect on youth homelessness. Sadly, across Australia in 2024-2025, 42,763 children and young people (under 25 years) presented on their own to a specialist homelessness service seeking support. As an organisation originally founded in 1982 to support young people in Ipswich experiencing homelessness, inCommunity Inc., and our brands inCommunity Connect and Tenancy Skills Institute, remain committed to doing Read more

Affirming our organisation’s commitment to inspiring our case managers to gain broader perspectives as practitioners from other specialist housing and homelessness services, our inCommunity Connect Study Tour recently took place in Cairns for the third consecutive year! Five members of the inCommunity Connect Team, including our two case manager interns, flew to Far North Queensland to gather insights from respected community organisations delivering services to people at risk of or experiencing homelessness. A Breadth of Read more