Women
Resources
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Influencing for change (Women’s Homelessness)
This briefing provides ‘Top Tips from the Frontline’ on influencing for change in the response of systems and services to women’s homelessness.
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Advocating for Women
This briefing provides ‘Top Tips from the Frontline’ on how to advocate effectively for women.
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Supporting Migrant Women
This briefing provides ‘Top Tips from the Frontline’ on how to support migrant women.
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Positive action in the workplace
This briefing explains positive action to enable it to be applied to homelessness workplaces.
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Bringing the Equality Act to life
This briefing aims to help homelessness practitioners to understand the Equality Act 2010, equipping them to improve their services and the support they offer.
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How language impacts EDI
This resource considers the importance of the language we use and provides tips to support homelessness professionals to deliver inclusive and equitable services.
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Women’s specific experiences of homelessness and health must be addressed
For International Women's Day, Homeless Link's Senior Research Manager, Debra Hertzberg, analyses health data to show why women experiencing homelessness need tailored healthcare.
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We must recognise homeless women in their own right, and fund services accordingly
Women are unseen, unheard and unprotected by a system designed and funded for men, writes Lucy Campbell of SHP, as part of the Reset Homelessness campaign.
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How services can become gender informed: new Going Beyond podcast
In this final episode of this series of the Going Beyond podcast, we speak to Helen Emmings from the Nelson Trust and Nicky Pearson from Medway Council. We speak about the barriers women experiencing homelessness face in accessing support in the sector, and discuss best practice for ensuring services are gender-informed.
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New women's rough sleeping census
The latest edition of the Women's Rough Sleeping Census has been published, Alex Smith reports from the launch event with more details.
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Free online training from Homeless Link
Checkout our free online bitesize e-learning packages for people working in frontline homelessness services. Also including fundraising training.
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New resources to improve EDI
Four resources aim to support homelessness staff to take action on EDI.
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London PLUS: Women Experiencing Homelessness
Register for the London PLUS free event for those working with women experiencing homelessness in London-based services. There will be sessions on data collection and the Gendered Lens Framework and how these are being used to transform services for women in a gender and trauma-informed way.
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Supporting women experiencing homelessness
A one-day course exploring current good practice in supporting women who are sleeping rough or are utilising homelessness services.
Online Members £131pp, Non-Members £173pp