Colony Outreach Support Services - COSS

This service helps Tasmanians who are homeless or at risk of homelessness and who are experiencing other problems maintaining accommodation such as:

• Poverty
• Mental Health
• Drug and Alcohol addiction
• Escaping Family and Domestic
• Violence Family or relationship breakdown

Client Feedback
COSS works in the community to reduce the stigma and breakdown the stereotypes related to homelessness. We emphasise the message that homelessness is not a choice. The following comment from a COSS client highlights this point: ” I’m a capable, intelligent person who used to have a fantastic career. I stopped working, then my relationship ended badly and now I’m living in a shelter. Now that I find myself in this situation, I have realised that homelessness can happen to anyone.’