Relationships-Based
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Preventing evictions and abandonment
Practical guidance for people working in supported accommodation settings to prevent evictions and abandonments.
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How to make your homelessness service trauma-informed
A practice development framework to support organisations to implement trauma-informed care in practice.
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Going Beyond: Homeless Link's practice podcast
Our podcast focusing on practice in the homelessness sector.
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Overview of Relationship-based Approaches
In recent years the sector has seen an introduction of a number of innovative approaches to supporting people who are experiencing homelessness; Psychologically Informed Environments, Trauma Informed Care, Housing First and strengths-based working to name a few. These are all different types of relationship-based approaches (we previously described them as positive approaches).
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Instability caused by short-term funding could lead to service user crisis of trust
The current homelessness funding system risks ruining our bond with clients and volunteers, write Michael Chandler of Groundswell as part of the Reset Homelessness campaign.
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Let’s seize this opportunity for homelessness prevention
Preventing homelessness is not only the most cost-effective approach, but also the most humane, writes Nicci Marzec, of charity Aspire Oxfordshire as part of the Reset Homelessness campaign.
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Going Beyond: Invaluable Advice for People working in homelessness
A brand new podcast series starts with an explanation of the importance of relationships when supporting people experiencing homelessness.
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Mind Your Language
The words that we use when we talk about homelessness and people affected by it can have an important impact. This blog suggests why we need to choose them carefully.
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Strengths-Based Practice: an introduction
Find out how working with people's strengths can make their experience of services more dignified, useful and empowering - and lead to better outcomes.
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Keyworking: person-centred and creative
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.
Online Members £135pp, Non-Members £175pp -
Keyworking: person-centred and creative
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.
Online Members £135pp, Non-Members £175pp -
Professional boundaries
Staff can be faced with dilemmas and can sometimes find themselves in tricky situations where they are uncertain of the most appropriate course of action. This course will enable participants to explore these critical issues.
Online Members £135pp, Non-Members £175pp -
Trauma-Informed: in practice
A follow-up course to Trauma-informed: Theory and Principles, building practical ways of working with people affected by trauma.
Online Members £135pp, Non-Members £175pp -
Compassion-Informed Workshops: What if the way we react to the crisis, is the crisis?
A programme of compassion-informed practice development. This programme consists of 2x half-day interactive online workshops. Through exploring compassion for others (people who access services) and compassion for self, the workshops aim to help you get curious about your subconscious drivers and develop your capacity to respond – not react, to the challenges you face at work.
Online Members £155pp, Non-Members £195pp