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The Invisible Homeless Minority
In this powerful episode, Mel sits down with PJ Humphreys, Community Development Officer at Sunshine Coast Council and the driving force behind Street Up - a grassroots homelessness initiative built on one simple but transformative belief: nothing about us, without us. Street Up was established in 2023 to harness the strength, insight, and leadership of people with lived experience of homelessness, ensuring their voices shape the policies, services, and community responses that affect them most.
Joining PJ in this conversation are Irene and Jacqui, two remarkable Lived Experience Leaders whose courage and clarity cut straight through the noise. Their stories illuminate the realities of homelessness, its complexity, its human cost, and its moments of unexpected resilience. More importantly, they share how Street Up has given them not just a seat at the table, but a platform to influence real change in their local community through presentations, training, peer support, and policy consultations.
PJ reflects on the evolution of Street Up, the importance of community‑led solutions, and the role local government can play when it chooses to listen deeply and act collaboratively. Together, the group explores what happens when lived experience is not only acknowledged but centred, how it shifts conversations, strengthens communities, and leads to better outcomes for everyone.
Street Up
On behalf of the Hair Therapist we acknowledge the Turrbal and Jagera people, the traditional custodians of the land on which this podcast is produced.
The topics in this podcast are of general nature, we are not licensed professionals, so if any of the content brings up anything for you, please turn it off and reach out for support:
Lifeline Australia - 13 11 14 - Crisis Support. Suicide Prevention.
13YARN - Call 13 92 76 | 24 /7 Crisis support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
Home | 1800RESPECT National Domestic and Sexual Violence Counselling Service
Kids Helpline | Phone Counselling Service | 1800 55 1800
Ask Izzy Search over 450,000 support services
CREDITS:
Host: Melissa Alsemgeest
Guests: PJ Humphries / Irene / Jacqui
Editor: Robert Alsemgeest
GET IN TOUCH:
https://linktr.ee/InfectiousBehaviour
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By Melissa AlsemgeestIn this powerful episode, Mel sits down with PJ Humphreys, Community Development Officer at Sunshine Coast Council and the driving force behind Street Up - a grassroots homelessness initiative built on one simple but transformative belief: nothing about us, without us. Street Up was established in 2023 to harness the strength, insight, and leadership of people with lived experience of homelessness, ensuring their voices shape the policies, services, and community responses that affect them most.
Joining PJ in this conversation are Irene and Jacqui, two remarkable Lived Experience Leaders whose courage and clarity cut straight through the noise. Their stories illuminate the realities of homelessness, its complexity, its human cost, and its moments of unexpected resilience. More importantly, they share how Street Up has given them not just a seat at the table, but a platform to influence real change in their local community through presentations, training, peer support, and policy consultations.
PJ reflects on the evolution of Street Up, the importance of community‑led solutions, and the role local government can play when it chooses to listen deeply and act collaboratively. Together, the group explores what happens when lived experience is not only acknowledged but centred, how it shifts conversations, strengthens communities, and leads to better outcomes for everyone.
Street Up
On behalf of the Hair Therapist we acknowledge the Turrbal and Jagera people, the traditional custodians of the land on which this podcast is produced.
The topics in this podcast are of general nature, we are not licensed professionals, so if any of the content brings up anything for you, please turn it off and reach out for support:
Lifeline Australia - 13 11 14 - Crisis Support. Suicide Prevention.
13YARN - Call 13 92 76 | 24 /7 Crisis support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
Home | 1800RESPECT National Domestic and Sexual Violence Counselling Service
Kids Helpline | Phone Counselling Service | 1800 55 1800
Ask Izzy Search over 450,000 support services
CREDITS:
Host: Melissa Alsemgeest
Guests: PJ Humphries / Irene / Jacqui
Editor: Robert Alsemgeest
GET IN TOUCH:
https://linktr.ee/InfectiousBehaviour
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.