Homelessness services play an important role in supporting people with their physical and mental safety and well-being. Experiences preceding a person’s homelessness, as well as being currently homeless on the streets or in services, may increase the risk of suicidal thoughts or feelings, and the risk of suicide attempts. It is vital that organisations offer the right support, both to prevent suicide and to support staff who are working with homeless individuals.
This guidance focuses on how managers can incorporate suicide prevention into the planning and delivery of services. It includes links to tools, information and training for teams to improve their support to individuals.
The Pavement's Suicide Feature Edition explores the impact of suicide through the experiences of people who are homeless and vulnerably housed.
Suicide prevention guidance for managers and frontline staff, covering:
We're grateful to The Pavement and Groundswell for sharing the work of their From the Ground Up peer reporters in this Suicide Feature Edition, exploring how suicide affects people who are homeless.
Guidance and resources to help support workers respond to the mental health needs of people experiencing homelessness.
Building effective working relationships between homelessness and mental health services
Practical, accessible guidance for frontline teams to use trauma and psychologically informed approaches and improve services for vulnerable people
Tasmin leads our Innovation & Good Practice and Partnerships teams. Current team projects include: Communities of Practice, Ending Women's Homelessness Fund, Housing First Fund, London PLUS, Youth Homelessness, Housing First England, Reboot, Counts & Estimates, and our effective practice guidance and toolkits.
Telephone:
020 7840 4451
Email:
tasmin.maitland@homelesslink.org.uk
Twitter:
@Tasmin_IGP
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