3CR Community Radio breakfast show host Dean Shingange speaks to Donna Bennett, Hope Street's Chief Executive Officer, about:

• The growing rates of youth homelessness in Melbourne and its various causes;
• The need for more specialist youth homelessness services in growth corridors;
• The debate over the Newstart allowance and the challenges faced by young people trying to survive on a Centrelink income;
• The links between youth homelessness and mental health; and
• The Hope Street First Response Youth Service currently operating in City of Melton and destined for the City of Whittlesea next.

(You can hear Donna's interview from 0:22:31)

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