Workshop 6: AtoZ: Introduction to the Advance to Zero homelessness approach

Join us for an introductory session on Advance to Zero (AtoZ) – Australia’s data-driven approach to ending homelessness. This workshop will provide an overview of what AtoZ is, how it works and the goals of the movement. Whether you’re new to AtoZ or looking to deepen your understanding, this session will offer valuable insights into the framework and its impact. The session will include:

• A presentation covering the fundamentals of AtoZ
• An introduction to action planning and how to set up your own advance to zero intuitive, including a by-name list.
• Interactive Q&A breaks to explore key concepts.
• This workshop is open to anyone interested in learning about AtoZ, from policymakers to service providers and community advocates.

About Advance to Zero
Advance to Zero (AtoZ) is a groundbreaking national initiative of the Australian Alliance to End Homelessness (AAEH) that supports local collaborative efforts to end homelessness, starting with rough sleeping – one community at a time. Using a range of proven approaches from around the world, communities are supported not just to address individual instances of homelessness, or even reduce overall homelessness, but to end it altogether.

About the Australian Alliance to End Homelessness (AAEH)
The Australian Alliance to End Homelessness (AAEH) is an independent champion and catalyst for ending homelessness in Australia. We support and amplify community efforts through driving the Advance to Zero movement, developing solutions towards systems change, building a series of allied networks and working in partnership with people with lived experience to demonstrate that it is possible to make homelessness rare, brief and once-off. Ultimately, we exist to prevent, reduce and end homelessness in Australia. We bring together individuals, community, business and governments to take action for an end to all homelessness in Australia

Presenters

David Pearson

David Pearson

Australian Alliance to End Homelessness

David recognises that ending homelessness is possible and that homelessness is not normal or something we should accept. He has worked towards this goal in a range of roles in the community, government, university and philanthropic sectors, including currently as the CEO of the Australian Alliance to End Homelessness. Before this he helped lead the establishment of the Adelaide Zero Project. David was a 2020 Kenneth Myer Innovation Fellow, a 2021 Churchill Fellow and is a Senior Advisor for the Institute of Global Homelessness (IGH). In 2025 the Advance to Zero efforts of the AAEH that David supports were recognised with a UN World Habitat Award. In 2019 David was recognised as one of the top 40 Under 40 leaders in South Australia. Prior to this David was the Senior Policy Adviser to several South Australian Premiers and Commonwealth Government Ministers in a range of portfolio areas.