Trauma-Informed
Resources
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Improving Accident and Emergency (A&E) experiences
This podcast and posters provide homelessness workers with advice on a range of ways to improve clients’ A&E experiences.
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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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Trauma-Informed Care and Psychologically Informed Environments
Practical information about trauma and psychologically informed approaches.
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Reflective practice in homelessness services
Guidance for homelessness services on implementing reflective practice.
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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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Supporting people experiencing suicidal thoughts
This page contains resources on how to better support people experiencing suicidal thoughts including leaflets and recorded presentations as well as a card to give directly to someone who may be at risk of taking their life.
News
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Homeless Link seeks partners for a new trauma-informed care Learning Programme
A new Learning Programme will bring multiple partner organisations together for structured learning and reflection, and collect evidence about how to implement the approach and the impact this.
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The value of gender-informed approaches to homelessness support
This guest blog for International Women's Day discusses the importance of equipping services to respond to gendered experiences, based on evidence from a recent research report.
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New resource to improve support for young people experiencing homelessness
Bringing together practice from children's welfare and homelessness, this guide aims to help homelessness practitioners to understand how brain development and the impact of trauma on the developing brain may affect a young person’s support needs and behaviour.
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Addressing hoarding: an important way to prevent homelessness?
There are a huge number of people at risk of homelessness due to hoarding. Jo Prestidge, Head of National Practice Development reflects on our 'Going Beyond' podcast episode on hoarding with P3 charity.
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Spotlight on: frontline worker wellbeing
Rachel Marshall, Policy and Best Practice Manager at St Martin-in-the-Fields Charity shares what their latest survey found out about frontline worker wellbeing and shares some practical resources that can support staff in their roles.
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Embedding a trauma-informed approach in the homelessness sector: our journey so far
Luke Elton from Oasis Community Housing describes the steps his organisation has taken to truly embed a trauma informed approach to their work.
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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.
Online Members £125pp, Non-Members £165pp -
Reflective Practice and resilience for frontline staff
Identify ways to build your resilience, learn from challenging situations, and use these skills to reduce the negative impact of stress in the workplace.
Online Members £125pp, Non-Members £165pp -
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 £125pp, Non-Members £165pp -
Trauma-Informed for managers
This course will provide an overview of Complex Trauma and explore how a trauma-informed approach can be safely and effectively implemented by managers across their teams.
Online Members £125pp, Non-Members £165pp -
Psychologically Informed Environments (PIE)
This course teaches you how to create a supportive environment by exploring five important elements and empowering frontline staff to lead the change.
Online Members £125pp, Non-Members £165pp