The Trauma and Homelessness Initiative was a collaboration of four agencies that provide homelessness and mental health services in thecommunity: Sacred Heart Mission, MIND Australia, Inner South Community Health and VincentCare Victoria. 

The aim of the project was to achieve better outcomes for people who are long-term homeless and have experienced trauma. 

The agencies commissioned the Australian Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health (ACPMH) at the University of Melbourne to look at the nature between the relationships of traumatic events in people's lives and their state of homelessness.

Based on their research, ACPMH has produced a framework for trauma-informed practice together with a worker guidebook.