Orange Sky recently created a homelessness education resource for the Queensland Police Service, designed to support officers and frontline responders in understanding homelessness more deeply, and in approaching interactions with empathy, professionalism and cultural awareness.

When you ask a class of students what the word “homelessness” means, you’ll often hear the same answer: “someone sleeping on the street”. It’s an image many of us grew up with, one that’s reinforced repeatedly in movies, media and everyday language, but it tells only one part of the story.