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: 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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Navigating Mental Health Services
This course is designed to help you understand how mental health problems can present, and how mental health services work, so that you can more easily ensure that you get the right help for your client.
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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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Suicide: prevention, intervention and post-incident protocols
This course will explore the theory and practice of suicide intervention skills that can be applied in any professional or personal setting. This course is for anyone who seeks greater understanding and confidence to intervene with people at risk of suicide. This course also explores possible prevention and post-incident protocols, and how to support 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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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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Preventing Evictions, Abandonments and Exclusions
This course will explore practical ways to reduce unplanned moves from your service.
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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.