Embrace People & Place

Our Projects

We develop and support projects at 437 Hunter Street and in the surrounding community

Embrace People & Place develops and supports a range of projects at 437 Hunter Street and in the surrounding community. Our primary focus is housing, education, employment, and social connection.

We address local challenges and bring about positive changes by tapping into local assets, including community members, other organisations, and state and local government.

Learning from experience is central to our project work. We do this through:

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Action Learning

We use action learning where lessons and questions from one project lead to our next project.

One example is our Women’s Carparking Pilot Project.

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Lived Experience

We are informed by the lived experiences of our guests and other people in our community. We take lessons from those experiences to get better at what we do. This includes genuine codesign processes with vulnerable people and community and employing lived experience workers, educators, and researchers.

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The Women in Community Program

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Hunter Homeshare

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The Student Placement Program

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The Women’s Carparking Pilot Project

Recent Project

Women’s Service Experiences Research

Recent Project

437 Hunter

Our Projects

437 Hunter

437 Hunter is more than a physical building. It is a growing community that welcomes vulnerable people as its guests. In-house partners collaborate and support each other to develop and strengthen program and service delivery.

Women’s Service Experiences Research

A community research project to explore and learn about the service experiences and needs of women who are homeless and sleeping rough.

The Women’s Carparking Pilot Project

This three-month pilot project aimed to provide a safer space for women experiencing homelessness who sleep in their cars.

The Student Placement Program

Students come on placement with the in-house partners at 437 Hunter Street, rather than one agency. They gain an opportunity to rethink conventional ways of working and to challenge stereotypical views about their disciplines.

Hunter Homeshare

Hunter Homeshare is a community-based initiative that connects people in need of safe, secure, and affordable housing with compassionate homeowners who are open to sharing both their home and their lives.

The Women in Community Program

We are very excited to be introducing a new pilot program. This is a community program for women over the age of 18 years who are leaving prison. It is an evidence-based, gender responsive, and trauma-informed program developed by women for women using a genuine co-design process.