An interim evaluation of the Miller Live ‘N’ Learn Campus

This report represents the final output of the research undertaken by the UNSW/UWS Research Centre to evaluate the Miller Live ‘N’ Learn Campus, an innovative project that provides accommodation and life-skills and training opportunities for young people aged 16-25 with low support needs who are in vulnerable housing situations. The project is physically located in a renovated block of Department of Housing bed-sits originally designed for the aged in the suburb of Miller in Liverpool LGA, western Sydney. This initiative, sponsored and supported by the New South Wales Department of Housing (DoH) and described more fully in Chapter 2, is based on the ‘Foyer’ model of integrated accommodation, skills training and job search support for young and often homeless people operating in the UK, and the long established ‘Foyer des Jeunes Travailleurs’ in France (See Randolph, Pang and Wood, 2001).