Targeted Housing and Support Services for Ex-Prisoners in Greater Western Sydney, for Corrective Services NSW - 1000435

The successful tenderer will assist the Client (Ex-Prisoner) to integrate back into the community by organising stable, comfortable and secure housing with sustained support services which specifically address the Client’s social and criminogenic needs.

The project will accept up to twenty people at any one time.  While the maximum period of support will be 12 months, it is anticipated that some participants will develop sustainable tenancy skills in a shorter time period, and that the total number of participants in a 12 month period may be higher than 20.

A non mandatory tenderer briefing will be held in Sydney on 15 March 2010.

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3 years.  Expected to commence in late May/early June 2010