Moorditj Mia (MM) was launched in 2021 and is Australia’s first First Nations-led Housing First homelessness support service, offering culturally secure outreach, case management and ongoing support to First Nations people and their families in the Perth metro area.
The service is underpinned by the ‘Mia Keny’ Principles. We are funded by Department of Communities.

Our aim is to end rough-sleeping for Aboriginal people. Moorditj Mia offers a suite of culturally competent services, including:

• Connecting rough sleepers with local services suitable to their cultural and personal needs
• Assist in the search for suitable accommodation
• Help tenants seek culturally-secure support by actively collaborating with key service partners, including Wungening Aboriginal Corporation and the Department of Communities
• Ultimately create long-term culturally secure pathways from homelessness to home ownership

Our frontline staff provide a culturally secure, individualised outreach service to First Nations people in the Perth metro area who are experiencing homelessness.
Most of our referrals come through our own outreach, or other specialist homelessness services. In turn, we make referrals for emergency or transitional accommodation and long-term housing.

The way our First Nations frontline staff yarn with clients is founded on Noongar cultural values and protocols.

Our team walk together in the same world as our clients, so their support is based on a shared understanding of the importance of moort (family and kin), boodja (country) and kaartdijin (cultural knowledge) as fundamental to SEWB.

Moorditj Mia uses the systems of community, family and kinship, lore and relational systems to facilitate more effective service delivery.