HopeStreet - Baptist Care NSW

HopeStreet is an innovative non-profit organisation, based in Woolloomooloo committed to putting faith into action by providing comapassionate care to marginalised inner-city residents.  Many of HopeStreet's community members are homeless, dealing with addiction, mental health, physical health and legal issues in addition to having diminished employment opportunities.

HopeStreet supports people of all ages; through our programmes we empower people to confront complex issues and to explore pathways toward education, training and employment.  HopeStreet directs help at the street level by building relationships with individuals in need, creating avenues of trust nad forming partnerships so that we are a consistent presence and support for whatever journey a person may be on.  HopeStreet creates a space for real and lasting change in people who want to live their lives differently and we have developed core programmes to support this work.

Our current core programmes:

Inner City Gambling Counselling

This programme has operated since 1999 and is funded by the NSW Government’s Responsible Gambling Fund. (RGF)

The Terrace

The Terrace provides a safe, supported environment where, over a period of up to eighteen months, six adult men learn to live in stable accommodation.

Women's Space

The central focus of Women's Space is to support women in the sex industry in inner city Sydney with an emphasis on street-based sex workers.

Employment Training Programme

The participants in this programme are provided with practical work experience as well as new life skills and pathways into future employment.

Community Development and Homeless Support

Working at the street level to provide emergency aid, crisis intervention, counselling, advocacy and systemic change, active community care and much more.