Women experience homelessness in different ways to men. Triggers of homelessness as well as experiences while homeless are unique to each person, however a person's gender and relationship to their gender impacts on their experience. Homelessness services can improve the support they provide to women by becoming 'gender informed'. This means that the service understands the impact of gender on a person's experience and adapts the service to reflect this understanding.
In this final episode of this series of the Going Beyond podcast, we speak to Helen Emmings from the Nelson Trust and Nicky Pearson from Medway Council. We speak about the barriers women experiencing homelessness face in accessing support in the sector, and discuss best practice for ensuring services are gender-informed.
