Upcoming events and training

Mental health issues and homelessness are closely linked, you may regularly support vulnerable individuals experiencing a range of mental health issues. This practical course will give you the skills needed to support individuals experiencing mental health issues.

This course will explore best practice and safety when it comes to lone working.

This course will explore the key rules for Universal Credit (UC) and Housing Benefit (HB).

Delivered by a qualified mental health professional, this four-part training programme aims to inspire and equip staff with knowledge, confidence and practical tools for managing their own wellbeing and how they can contribute to a workplace culture of positive wellbeing practice.

Develop practical skills, knowledge, coaching skills and the confidence to support and empower your clients to overcome barriers and access education, training or employment.

A follow-up course to Trauma-informed: Theory and Principles, building practical ways of working with people affected by trauma.

This course will explore how trauma can create self-harming behaviour in a person as a way of managing emotional distress, and look at how to support people away from self-harming to alternative ways of managing their emotions.

Develop your skills and knowledge to more effectively support individuals with alcohol-related issues, including those resistant to change.

Learn how to safely manage and de-escalate volatile situations and resolve conflict.

Find out how working with people's strengths can make their experience of services more dignified, useful and empowering - and lead to better outcomes.

Excellent support is dependent on an effective Strengths-Based assessment and the formation of a strong support plan. To achieve this, you need to be able to fully engage the client in the process, complete an assessment that focuses on strengths and create a plan that both client and support worker agree with. This training will help you to carry out assessment and support planning effectively.

This course will give you the knowledge and understanding to develop your keyworking approach, with a focus on motivation, engagement and creative problem-solving. It will help you to respond creatively to non-engagement and ambivalence about change, using different strategies to achieve a person-centred and strengths-based approach to keyworking.