To facilitate engagement, alignment and collaborative opportunities the Alliance has established a series of ongoing opportunities for a broad range of stakeholders to engage and contribute to implementing the 10-Year WA Strategy to End Homelessness.
To facilitate engagement, alignment and collaborative opportunities the Alliance has established a series of ongoing opportunities for a broad range of stakeholders to engage and contribute to implementing the 10-Year WA Strategy to End Homelessness.
The Strategy | Click the Document
The Strategy | Click the Document
The Team
Meet our dynamic team appointed to drive the work of the WA Alliance to End Homelessness.
David Pearson
Executive Officer
David recognises that ending homelessness is possible and has worked towards this goal in a range of roles in the community, government, university and philanthropic sectors, including currently as the Executive Officer of the WAAEH and the CEO of the Australian Alliance to End Homelessness (AAEH). He is also a senior advisor for the Institute of Global Homelessness (IGH) and a 2021 Churchill Fellow.
Michala McMahon
Director of Practice and Improvement
Michala has been working in the homelessness sector for over a decade, most recently responsible for The Zero Project (led by Ruah Community Services) providing backbone support to the Housing First Homelessness Initiative and overarching sector collaboration and homelessness responses in Western Australia. Michala has been helping to lead the State-wide movement to End Homelessness in WA, supported by and aligned with the National and International Advance to Zero Movement and WA’s 10-year strategy.
John Berger
Director of Engagement and Strategic Projects
John has worked in leadership positions in not-for-profits for over the last three decades. It has been noted by many that his leadership and ecosystem thinking have allowed for completely new ways of approaching change in the field of homelessness in a WA context. He is passionate about working with the community, particularly those who are vulnerable and ensuring their voice of lived experience is central to informing change. He was also the inaugural member of the WA Alliance to End Homelessness and held the role of Chair and then Executive Officer until taking up this new role.