Ben O’Brien
Homelessness and Outreach Services Manager
Teen Challenge
Ben O’Brien is the Homelessness and Outreach Services Manager at Teen Challenge Queensland, leading New Hope House, a youth crisis accommodation service supporting young men experiencing homelessness in Brisbane. With lived experience of homelessness, addiction and recovery, Ben brings both personal insight and professional leadership to the sector. He is passionate about trauma-informed, relationship-based responses and advocates for lived experience voices to shape homelessness services, policy and system reform. Ben shares a hopeful and practical perspective on recovery, resilience and supporting young people to move beyond crisis and toward stability and belonging.
SESSIONS
Day 2
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Panel: Where we are and where we need to be: Learning from our lived experience leaders
Join this critical discussion with lived experience leaders as they address system change, prevention and best practice. Gain insight from people who have experienced the system and know what works well and what is missing to get Australia on track to eliminate homelessness.
Moderator: Stephen Simpson, Chief Executive Officer, Homelessness Queensland
Duncan Bainbridge, Progressive Communications and Social Impact Professional
Katie Shields, Lived and Living Experience Leader, Consultant and Coordinator, Homelessness Queensland; IMPACT Network – QLEWN; Western Queensland PHN; Director and Policy Advisor, Amity Place Ltd
Ben O’Brien, Homelessness and Outreach Services Manager, Teen Challenge