Hi everyone, welcome to the June 2024 edition…
Thank you for signing up to receive our updates and a big welcome to our new members.
We would like to introduce to our wonderful new Better Together Housing Project Lead,
Maggie Cairns. We are beyond excited to have Maggie join our team. She is incredibly
passionate about supporting women to work together to find safe, secure homes. She is also
highly skilled and experienced in all things needed to help progress a thriving Better Together
Housing Program. Together, Maggie and Natasha make a great team. Both are committed to
working with members and our community partners to raise the profile of the program in
local communities, grow its geographical reach, significantly increase quality engagement and
support more and more women to achieve successful shared housing.
Donna will continue to provide overall management of Better Together Housing but will be
stepping back from the on-ground delivery. She has so enjoyed meeting each and every
member who has attended our array of information sessions and Get it Togethers, and would
like to especially thank all the women who have contributed invaluable advice and guidance to
help the continuing evolution of the program. Donna looks forward to only look forward to
this continuing as the team engages with more and more women, building a movement of
women working together to address this absolute disaster.
A little bit about Maggie our New Better Together Housing Project Lead
Maggie has recently joined us as the Project Lead for Better Together Housing and her
primary role will involve working with the team to help grow and develop this offering into
our region and communities. She has just spent the last 4 years working as a Program Lead for
a not for profit supporting entrepreneurs from refugee and First Nations communities. Prior
to that she was in the wellness industry for thirty years as a therapist, manager, and trainer.
Maggie is grateful to be working within an organisation that is dedicated to helping people
who would otherwise be missed. ”I feel passionate about the opportunity to help facilitate
women in having a better quality of life – to be able to live together in happy, safe homes.”
Goodbye to our student on placement Anita
Anita, our student on placement, has finished up with us this month. We would like to thank
her for all her hard work over the last few months. She has been a regular at our Get it
Togethers and information sessions since February this year. She brought a lot of valuable
insights to our program and even co-developed a workshop with Relationships Australia. We
wish her all the best on her Masters of Counselling degree, she will be missed!
Update on the new website
We are just a few weeks away from our new website going live! Thank you to all the members
who have provided feedback to the website it has been invaluable. We really hope this new
website will lead to women being able to connect easier.
We want to make this transition from the old website to the new one as seamless as possible.
As such we will be offering one on one support either over the phone or face-to-face if that
can be arranged. Please do not hesitate to reach out once the new website is live if you need
help to navigate it.
Mackay News & updates
The BTH team in Mackay had a great day at the Homelessness Expo on the 6th of June –
sharing a stall with the Soroptimist International Mackay. They had second hand clothes to
give away, and health and DV support information on hand. We had many women and service
providers come along and hear about Better Together Housing. The whole event was a great
success with many people from the community enjoying the free food, coffee and service
information on hand.
Latest News, Articles and Information
Interesting links to learn more about why Better Together Housing is working hard to grow our services and membership.
Sydney nurse on the verge of homelessness despite working six-day week
Catch 22 means ‘pretty much no rental properties are affordable’ in Australia
Upcoming Get it Togethers and Information Sessions
Check out our upcoming Get it Togethers here
Better Together Housing
info@bettertogetherhousing.com.au
www.bettertogetherhousing.com.au
