Youth
Resources
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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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Ask a CEO with Seyi Obakin OBE
In this 90-minute webinar, we hear from Centrepoint CEO Seyi Obakin OBE about the challenges and joys of leading the UK’s largest youth homelessness charity for nearly 20 years.
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Safeguarding children and young people in homeless settings
Following the publication of our guidance Safeguarding children and young people, this webinar will explore actions individuals and organisations can take to implement effective safeguarding practices.
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Keeping young people safe
Young people’s rights to support and housing are often different to adults. These resources unpick legislative frameworks affecting young people’s housing pathways and explain the different roles agencies, services and individuals have when responding to youth homelessness.
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Psychologically informed approaches with young people experiencing homelessness
Psychologically Informed environments are designed and delivered in a way that takes into account the emotional and psychological needs of the individuals using them. These resources consider what this means for young people.
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Understanding difference and tailoring support for young people experiencing homelessness
Young people’s experiences of homelessness vary. They are shaped by their own experiences of, and other people’s reactions to their circumstances and identity. These resources provide advice and information the services can use to tailor the support they offer to young people.
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Ofsted regulations update. Share your experience
An update from our meetings with Ofsted about the regulation of services and an opportunity to feed into our ongoing discussions.
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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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Why National Coming Out Day is important for homelessness
Sharing your identity as someone who is LGBTQIA+ can be a positive experience but can also be scary and lead to trauma and homelessness. This blog explains how homelessness staff can ensure services are supportive.
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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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New resources to prevent young people from falling into homelessness
These resources have been designed to provide snapshots of good and promising practice. We know the time-pressures and challenges faced by local authorities and services; our briefings provide short overview of actions taken, positive outcomes and challenges overcome
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Take Pride in special homelessness services
During Pride month, we at Homeless Link want to focus on acceptance, equality and celebrating the work of LGBTQIA+ people, education in LGBTQIA+ history and raising awareness of issues affecting the LGBTQIA+ community.