Rebeccas Community

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The Homeless & Rebeccas Community

Rebeccas Community was founded in 2002 by Social Worker Mr. Dominic Mapstone and Mr. Gerry Denton to support people who experience homelessness or are imprisoned - especially children. Our approach is centred around spending time with homeless people for the sake of getting to know them and becoming a part of their lives so this sense of connectedness is established... at least with our community. We also fund the national schoolies week website, a peer education program that helps promote safety during schoolies week..

Hospitality House

Rebeccas Community runs programs that relieve suffering and help homeless people establish social connections and find their way not only off the streets but into the community. For the past six years in Australia, our home / office / place of hospitality in one has been a place where we welcome homeless people (who we have come to know over the past decade) to either drop-in for a day or to stay for a couple of months.

Beyond the model of homeless shelters, hospitality house is much more like a family home where people come for sanctuary and belonging. We keep in touch with people long after they are off the streets and have moved on from hospitality house. We expect to continue this relationship, if only by phone for many years to come. By acting more like a family and less like a welfare service we are responding to the experience homeless people have in a way that is very unconventional. But it works.

Read Rebeccas Story, the homeless person we named 'Rebeccas Community" after.