THE head of a leading Redlands care centre predicts major issues are looming once JobKeeper ends in seven weeks.
Allison Wicks said she expected Redlands Community Centre to face challenges and called on government for a strategy for housing.
"Funds for our Homeless United program run out at the end of June," she said.
"It is an amazing program for people in search of housing and support and has a flow on from domestic violence cases. However there is a lack of social housing in the Redlands with only about 70 properties."
Ms Wicks said in March/April when JobSeeker and JobKeeper come to an end, the centre would face huge issues.
Speaking at a round table discussion this week with MPs from the shadow cabinet, community service groups hashed out their challenges and needs.
The Hub 68, an evolving medical and health precinct in Ormiston hosted the discussion with LNP MPs - Shadow Attorney-General Tim Nicholls, Surfers Paradise MP John-Paul Langbroek, and Shadow Minister for Education and Arts Christian Rowan.
"We are keen to hear more about the resources and the challenges of community services in the Redlands as well as their thoughts and ideas on policy," Mr Rowan said.
The Centre for Women and Co chief executive Stacey Ross said the domestic violence and women's wellbeing service was in the process of securing funds as the five-year contract was up.
She said the Redlands, especially the islands were a high risk area for domestic violence.
"We are a growing service and we don't have the capacity to deal with the caseload. The government is not increasing the funds to meet the demand... If we had more funding we would have more of an impact in the community," she said.
Donald Simpson Centre chief executive Thomas Jithin said when JobKeeper ended, the Cleveland community centre would suffer as it got a lot of its funding from local businesses.
The Cage Youth Foundation director Linda Grieve said the organisation relied on volunteers who were inundated with cases as the need for counselling and crisis support grew.
She said the government services were referring people to the non-profit organisations for help.
"We are dealing with the 'right now' issues, but we have waiting lists. We are running on a shoestring and can't afford resources.
"Our services are all interwoven, but we need to be connected," she said.
The women agreed the overarching issue in the Redlands was mental health with cases as young as 14 years.
Two of the largest charitable networks in Australia, Anglicare Australia and UnitingCare Australia are urging the government to raise the rate of JobSeeker payments for good.
Anglicare executive director Kasy Chambers said out of work Australians were dreading the next round of cuts to their payments.
"The old rate of JobSeeker was frozen for almost three decades. It became a poverty trap, locking people out of work. Week after week, people were coming to us for food parcels and vouchers just to get by.
"When the government lifted JobSeeker it righted that wrong. People out of work were finally given a path out of poverty. These cuts will take that hope away - and push people back into poverty and hardship," she said.
