During the past 12 months, Life Without Barriers’ support for refugee and asylum seeker program delivered several crucial programs to asylum seekers and refugees within the Australian community. These included settlement support to unaccompanied humanitarian minors, complex case support for refugees in need of special assistance, and community housing services. An expansion of the program's community housing service into Sydney and Hobart in August 2013, was an exciting and fast-paced development as the team responded to a government request for increased service delivery. This meant LWB was now delivering support services across Australia, from Perth to Adelaide, Hobart, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, and up to Far North Queensland.

Additionally, teams across all states adopted new service models in early 2014 to commence supporting families and vulnerable adults within community housing, where previously the service had been limited to providing care to unaccompanied minors.

The significant expansion of these services in community housing coincided with LWBs transition out of the Settlement Program in March 2014. However, our work in supporting people awaiting the outcome of refugee applications has continued to grow.