Working in Partnership to Tackle Homelessness and Rough Sleeping
Online Event 9 February 2022, 9:00am - 3:00pm
Learning Outcomes
- Explore how to sustain the reduction in people who are sleeping rough and reduce the flow of new people onto the streets
- Examine how a multi-agency approach can be used to tackle the main issues including ensuring immediate access to housing, healthcare and employment services
- Consider insights into putting the person’s needs and goals first
- Discuss and debate prevention strategies through the provision of wrap-around care to people at risk of homelessness
- Understand and address barriers to independent living for people with mental health and physical disability needs
- Address the relationship between domestic abuse and homelessness
- Hear how to engage with vulnerable homeless people through a collaborative approach
- Analyse the efficacy of a ‘Housing First’ approach tackling homelessness
- Discuss methods of improving data collection to better understand ‘hidden homelessness’
- Determine how policymakers can work together with the private rental sector to open-up housing options
- Develop successful strategies of reducing harm against the violence that rough sleepers face
- Explore systems that can support people transitioning out of homelessness