Upcoming courses
Our summer training courses 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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Suicide: prevention, intervention and post-incident protocols
This course is designed for those seeking understanding and confidence in helping people at risk of suicide, exploring prevention, post-incident protocols, and support for service users and staff after an incident.
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Balancing priorities for better wellbeing
A practical and inspirational take on wellbeing in relation to how we protect our time and set boundaries, so that we can effectively prioritise, set goals and manage our professional and personal sense of balance and wellbeing.
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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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Staff Supervision skills
Improve your supervision skills to benefit your staff team and improve the performance of your service. As a manager or supervisor this course will help you to develop your staff through regular formal supervision, leading to improved outcomes for your organisation.
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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.
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Facilitation skills
This course is perfect for new facilitators or those wanting to polish their skills, offering a journey from basic principles to advanced facilitation techniques. Participants from various sectors, including homelessness and voluntary sectors, will find this training particularly helpful in improving their ability to lead engaging and inclusive sessions.
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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.
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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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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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Trauma-Informed: Theory and Principles
An introductory course for frontline staff exploring Complex Trauma and Trauma-Informed approaches.
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Modern Slavery and homelessness
Delivered in partnership with Hestia, specialists in supporting survivors of modern slavery, this course will explore legal matters, trends and forms of Modern Slavery. It will also help delegates identify if someone is at risk of exploitation and how to get people the support they need.
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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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Housing Law: tenancies and licences
This one day course will explore common issues relating to tenancies and licences.
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Domestic abuse and homelessness
This course will provide you with an introduction to domestic abuse, looking specifically at how it might impact service users in a range of homelessness settings.
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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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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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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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Understanding Self-Harm
This course will explore how trauma can create self-harming behaviour in a person as a way of managing emotional distress, and look at how to support people away from self-harming to alternative ways of managing their emotions.