Health and Social Care
Resources
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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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Improving access to dental care for people experiencing homelessness
Report by the Homeless Health Consortium to explore ways to improve access to dental care for people experiencing homelessness.
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Research exploring holistic Housing First outcomes
New research into the long-term impacts of Housing First across health, mental health, offending behaviour, substance use and beyond.
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Our Manifesto to End Homelessness
With a general election looming in 2024, we have published our manifesto to end homelessness. Drawn from from our unique position as the membership body for over 800 homelessness organisations across England. It builds on work with our members, on engagement with specialists and experts and on the rich body of evidence on what works to end homelessness, outlining our core ambitions of the next government.
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Understanding young people’s development
A resource exploring how practitioners can facilitate safe transitions into adulthood with young people accessing homelessness services.
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Holding conversations about health
People experiencing homelessness face significant healthcare challenges and significant barriers to accessing healthcare services. We have created a range of resources to ensure workers in the homelessness sector have existing skills and opportunities to talk to people around their healthcare needs.
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Improving access to healthcare: Tower Hamlets Health and Wellness Fairs
We spoke to Providence Row about their award-winning health and wellness fairs that are improving access to healthcare for people experiencing homelessness in Tower Hamlets.
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Housing First research highlights huge cross-sector impact
New research into the holistic long-term outcomes of Housing First strengthens the case for a national cross-departmental programme for people experiencing complex needs.
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Key workers – let’s talk cancer screening
We want to increase the uptake of cancer screening amongst people facing homelessness. We are holding a workshop to gather the views of frontline workers on what is needed to support the uptake of screening.
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“Safeguarding is everyone’s business”: launch of new Expert Citizens toolkit
Read our guest blog about the development of a new resource for the sector: The Safeguarding Toolkit for Multiple Exclusion Homelessness.
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Housing First needs greater cross-sector working to fulfil potential
Experts at the national Housing First Conference agreed that the approach should be recognised for what it is - a successful intervention for people experiencing complex disadvantage that goes far beyond simply addressing rough sleeping.
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New App to support people who use drugs
This guest blog from Luke O’Neil at Cranstoun describes changes in the UK drug scene and introduces a new mobile app that homelessness services can use to support clients.