Jonathan is the Program Manager for the Salvation Army’s Veteran Support Team who provide housing and homelessness support to veterans and their families across Queensland.

Jonathan leads this program supporting and advocating for veterans and their families experiencing homelessness and housing instability both statewide and in national spaces from a defence family member perspective as a child, nephew and grandchild of a veteran.

Jonathan has worked in the community services sector for over 20 years, in a variety of roles including neighbourhood centres, youth, mental health support and family mediation. He currently volunteers as Board Secretary for Homelessness Queensland.

Jonathan has a passion for building programs and advocating for systems change to make an end to veteran homelessness a reality, bringing together sectors and systems as there is only one way to achieve this and that is together.