Improving access to Crisis Accommodation responses
Tender Overview
About this tender
The Department of Families, Fairness and Housing (the department) is seeking suitably qualified and experienced organisations to deliver innovative approaches that provide victim survivors with safe, short-term accommodation with wrap-around onsite services and/or support safe exit pathways from refuge and crisis accommodation into medium to longer term accommodation options. Enquiries Rebecca Coburn Contractual Phone: +61 (3) 99999999 submissions@dffh.vic.gov.au
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