Upcoming courses
Our training courses up to March 2025 are now open for booking.
If your organisation is a Homeless Link member you are entitled to a 25% discount on all our training! Just select the member option when booking.
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Trauma-Informed: Theory and Principles
An introductory course for frontline staff exploring Complex Trauma and Trauma-Informed approaches.
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Housing Law: tenancies and licences
This one day course will explore common issues relating to tenancies and licences.
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Motivational Interviewing: an introduction
Explore how to positively engage with the people you support and help them make real and sustainable changes in their lives.
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Alcohol: Supporting change resistant and dependent drinkers
Develop your skills and knowledge to more effectively support individuals with alcohol-related issues, including those resistant to change.
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Lone working
This course will explore best practice and safety when it comes to lone working.
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Mental Health and homelessness
Mental health issues and homelessness are closely linked, you may regularly support vulnerable individuals experiencing a range of mental health issues. This practical course will give you the skills needed to support individuals experiencing mental health issues.
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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.
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Homelessness: an introduction
This course is ideal for anyone new to working in the homelessness sector, or for those who are looking to improve their awareness of homelessness.
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Wellbeing Programme for homelessness and supported housing sector workers
Delivered by a qualified mental health professional, this four-part training programme aims to inspire and equip staff with knowledge, confidence and practical tools for managing their own wellbeing and how they can contribute to a workplace culture of positive wellbeing practice.
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Risk management: practical skills
This course will help you to understand the importance of risk assessment in your work. You will learn how to identify and eliminate risks and how to undertake risk assessment effectively.
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Trauma-Informed: in practice
A follow-up course to Trauma-informed: Theory and Principles, building practical ways of working with people affected by trauma.
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Homelessness Law, Practice and the Homelessness Reduction Act
Develop your understanding of the statutory duties the people you support may be owed by Local Authorities, including the duties of the Homelessness Reduction Act.
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Conflict management: handling violence and aggression
Learn how to safely manage and de-escalate volatile situations and resolve conflict.
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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.
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Complex Needs, Dual Diagnosis and Personality Disorder
This course will provide an introduction to the these topics and will explore ways of supporting people and maintaining staff wellbeing.
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Anti-social behaviour: management and prevention
Develop your understanding of what is available to prevent and tackle anti-social behaviour (ASB) including how to empower clients to manage their behaviour and acquire skills for social living.
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Universal Credit and Supported Accommodation
This course will explore the key rules for Universal Credit (UC) and Housing Benefit (HB).
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Assessment and Support Planning
Excellent support is dependent on an effective Strengths-Based assessment and the formation of a strong support plan. To achieve this, you need to be able to fully engage the client in the process, complete an assessment that focuses on strengths and create a plan that both client and support worker agree with. This training will help you to carry out assessment and support planning effectively.
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Supporting people into education, training and employment
Develop practical skills, knowledge, coaching skills and the confidence to support and empower your clients to overcome barriers and access education, training or employment.
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Drug and alcohol awareness
Introducing our comprehensive drug and alcohol awareness course tailored specifically for homelessness services. The course is designed to equip professionals with the knowledge and skills needed to effectively identify, approach, and assist individuals struggling with drug and alcohol use and dependency.
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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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Criminal Justice and homelessness
This is course will provide participants with a greater understanding of how the criminal justice system operates. Delegates will understand that offending behaviour is a specific need and how they can support people away from patterns of offending behaviour.
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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.
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Preventing Evictions, Abandonments and Exclusions
This course will explore practical ways to reduce unplanned moves from your service.
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Suicide: prevention, intervention and post-incident protocols
Join us on World Suicide Prevention Day to build your confidence in helping people at risk of suicide, exploring prevention, post-incident protocols, and how to support service users and staff after an incident.
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Race, ethnicity and experiences of homelessness
This course will equip you with knowledge and skills to respond proactively to the complex issues linked to race, ethnicity and homelessness.
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Hoarding awareness workshop
Develop an understanding of the reasons a person may hoard and how to support a person to overcome barriers to disposing of their hoard.
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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.