Neurodiversity
Resources
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Brain injury and homelessness
Information and guidance on brain injuries, including how they impact individuals, the links between brain injury and homelessness, and how frontline workers can support.
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Bitesize Learning: Managing challenging behaviour
9-part bitesize e-learning and further resources for frontline staff in homelessness services who are looking to build on their knowledge, skills and understanding of supporting people who exhibit challenging behaviours.
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Autism and Homelessness
A toolkit to help homelessness teams improve their support to people who are, or may be, autistic.
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Outreach Learning Forum: Resources
Presentation recordings & slides from the Outreach Learning Forum: a series of interactive, online sessions aimed at rough sleeping outreach workers, to increase knowledge of how to support individuals with complex needs. Topics covered include: learning disabilities, brain injury, self-neglect and mental health.
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Learning Disabilities and Homelessness Toolkit
This toolkit has been written by Dr Anna Tickle at Framework and Opportunity Nottingham with contributions from Westminster City Council, Change Communication, Professor Karen McKenzie at Northumbria University and Groundswell. There is also an accompanying webinar with Dr Tickle and other speakers.
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It’s all in the brain; Autism, brain injury and trauma
There is a growing awareness of the links between homelessness and conditions such as Autism and acquired brain injury. This webinar discusses how these conditions relate to homelessness, some good practice suggestions around how to recognise the differences and respond effectively and where to go for more information.
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Meeting the needs of people experiencing homelessness with a traumatic brain injury
Dr Jess Barton, Lead of the Westminster Homeless Neuropsychology Pathway, outlines the challenges faced by people experiencing homelessness with a brain injury and offers support tips for homelessness staff.
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New podcast explores the relationship between neurodivergence and homelessness
In this episode, we discuss the relationship between neurodivergence and homelessness, and discuss ways services can become more accessible, responsive and inclusive to neurodivergent people.
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Homelessness Strategy falls short on addressing deep homelessness and health links
Our comment piece for Inside Housing discusses how our Unhealthy State of Homelessness report can help ensure the government’s strategy breaks the cycle of worsening ill health and homelessness.
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Understanding the needs of the homelessness workforce in supporting autistic people experiencing homelessness
Read about the results from a survey which explored the needs of the homelessness workforce in supporting autistic people experiencing homelessness.
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Updated Autism and Homelessness Toolkit launches
Co-authors of the recently updated Autism and Homelessness Toolkit write about the reasons why homelessness disproportionally affects autistic people and how the toolkit can support the sector.
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Literacy & Homelessness: A new charter
Challenges with literacy can be both a cause of homelessness and can prevent people from escaping homelessness. In this guest blog, Julia Olisa, Founder of Literacy 100 explains what services can do, and introduces a new charter for best practice