Live N Learn recognises the important roles safe accommodation, education and lasting employment play in building a successful and independent life.
- A stable living environment is necessary for achieving education or training goals,
- Education is a key to gaining a job, and
- A good job is the key to living a quality life.
Live N Learn was initiated by the NSW Department of Housing as a way to offer better solutions for youth at risk of homelessness or youth exiting shorter-term accommodation. As an independent, not-for-profit company, we apply a holistic approach to the needs of youth who require some ongoing support in order to re-establish themselves and halt a transition to chronic homelessness and unemployment.
Adapted for Australian application from the UK “Foyer” model, Live N Learn’s Miller Campus opened in 2003.
The Live N Learn Campus offers skills learning and stable accommodation in self contained campus style units
for up to 29 young people.
Live N Learn has created a service that plays a preventative role in assisting youth to continue their participation in education and decrease their risk of homelessness. While seeking to address these two key areas, Live N Learn reinforces the Live and Learn principles.
LIVE
- Providing safe, affordable housing for young people.
- Providing a bridge between unstable or unsuitable accommodation and independent living.
- Independent living within a community of others around your same age and with similar aims.
- Assisting those without belongings, by providing a self contained fully furnished unit with own kitchenette and bathroom (including linen, white goods, crockery and utensils).
LEARN
- Recognising the importance that education and learning plays in creating a greater quality of life and personal independence.
- Promoting and supporting the development of independent living skills.
- Offering programs specifically tailored to the needs of individuals living at Miller Campus.
- Providing support and assistance in achieving learning goals, be it completing high school, TAFE study, or undertaking employment training courses such as apprenticeships or traineeships.