Travel 4 Good: Adventuring for a Cause

🌍 Travel 4 Good: Adventuring for a Cause

Meet Stephen and Lisa Cole - two everyday adventurers on a mission to make a difference. Through their platform Travel 4 Good, they’re proving that meaningful travel can create real social change.

In June 2025, they’ll trek 154km across Scotland's stunning West Highland Way over 8 days - and every step they take will raise awareness and vital funds for young people facing homelessness right here in Australia.

Stephen says, "In a cost-of-living crisis, good people make desperate choices. We want to help before it gets to that point."

Hope Street’s Living Skills Program is under-resourced and urgently needs support. With your help, we can equip more young people with the confidence and capabilities they need to change their circumstances and thrive.

Their goal? To raise $5,000 for Hope Street’s Living Skills Program - an under-resourced initiative that supports young people, including young families, living in Hope Street’s supported transitional housing program in Thomastown. The program includes seven (7) individual units and equips participants with everyday life skills many of us take for granted:

🥣 Cooking
📝 Planning and budgeting
🎨 Creative self-care and soothing activities like art and craft.

Hope Street CEO Donna Bennett shares, “I look forward to being a part of your hiking adventure of the West Highland Way (from Melbourne) - looks amazing. Thank you for thinking of Hope Street and supporting the many vulnerable young people who are impacted by trauma and homelessness.”

With your help, we can equip more young people with the confidence and capabilities they need to change their circumstances and thrive.

🧡 How you can help

• Follow the journey via [Travel 4 Good’s Facebook Page or Polar Steps]
• Donate today and directly support youth experiencing hardship
• Share this story and inspire others to turn adventure into impact.

Let’s walk beside Stephen and Lisa – and walk toward a future where no young person is left behind.

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Local Federal Government representative Andrew Giles MP visits brand new First Response Youth Service Centre in City of Whittlesea

In December, Hope Street Youth and Family Services welcomed Federal Government representative and Member for Scullin, Andrew Giles MP to visit and tour the new First Response Youth Service centre. 
 
Andrew was able to see how this nation leading, culturally safe and therapeutically designed youth housing solution is now part of the local community in Melbourne’s northern eastern growth corridor.  
 
This impactful design features 12 emergency response beds being provided to young people, including two units dedicated to young families, one specifically for First Nations young families. 

Andrew was able to see the beautiful therapeutic and primarily edible gardens, and tour the disability accessible units, laundry, bathrooms, kitchen, study area, and art therapy / games room space.  

The community in the City of Whittlesea is now home to this brand-new youth housing solution to address inequity for young people and young families.  

With over 850 people recorded as homeless in the City of Whittlesea on census night 2021, Hope Street’s tested and successful program model will provide emergency accommodation and essential services to 100 young people including young people with children impacted by homelessness.  

Specialist youth focused services will be provided on site, with a professional team of youth workers and case managers, who will assist each young person to assess their individual needs and circumstances. The worker, jointly with the young person, will develop a plan, provide support and access to resources to enable the young person to achieve their goals in-particular health and wellbeing, education or employment, social connection, and ultimately a safe place to call home.