Open Family Australia, in partnership with Goodman Fielder, will be establishing a mobile food service called NOSH in
NOSH – Nutrition, Outreach, Support and Health – will provide nutritious evening meals to the region’s at-risk and homeless youth, initially operating three nights a week. NOSH will also incorporate a nurse to provide basic first aid and health advice as well as a counsellor to assist young people with drug and alcohol counselling.
Young people in Sydney's Western region are in a high risk category of low food security, i.e. that they do not have enough food to eat each week. Food insecurity is associated with poor health and insidiously exacerbates other health inequalities.
NOSH will provide the following:
- Healthy meal options
- Food packs for young people
- Nutritional information for young people
The NOSH Program will operate alongside the Chatterbox Bus as a health and wellbeing service providing nutritional healthy food options for these at-risk young people. The NOSH program is proudly supported by Goodman Fielder.
Mum and I were fighting all the time and it wasn’t a happy place for me anymore. I had told Mum that one of her relatives had sexually abused me. I don’t know why but she didn’t believe me. I think that is what hurt me the most – I’m her daughter and she is supposed to protect me but when I finally got up the courage to tell her what had been going on, she turned her back on me.
In 2007, Open Family Australia secured funding through the Property Industry Foundation for the refurbishment and fit out for a mobile youth outreach service for Sydney. Recognising that Sydney's CBD is well catered for by other agencies, Open Family Australia decided to launch this service into Sydney's western suburbs, frequenting hot spots in the Warwick Farm, Liverpool and Fairfield regions. 
The Melbourne Chatterbox operates three nights a week in Melbourne's CBD and inner suburbs. The service is manned by a team of volunteers headed up by Open Family Australia's Volunteer Coordinator and Chatterbox Volunteer Committee. The service has been operational in Melbourne since 2002 and is proudly supported by Cabrini Health, the Tattersalls Foundation and PFD Foods.
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Open Family Australia works in Victoria and NSW, providing Outreach support to young people at risk in these communities. 
Assertive Outreach is a model that offers youth focused services to street frequenting young people in the environments where they congregate. This model of providing comprehensive ongoing support in all aspects of a young person’s life, rather than just concentrating on one issue is successful, as it provides the young person with support from a worker who is available for all their needs and who also works to integrate them into mainstream society.
