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Develop your service
This section contains information and good practice examples to help organisations providing services to homeless people develop these services and help bring about an end to homelessness.
Our dedicated Handbooks good practice microsite's newest section is on Street Outreach bringing together good practice and resources for frontline workers, managers and commissioners to improve or develop outreach services. The other handbooks cover hostels, day centres, resettlement and education, training and employment.
Creating Change is Homeless Link's strategy for changing front line services to homeless people.
What's New?
- Outcomes News - including a conference, new system and training dates in the Outcomes section
- Activating Places of Change: The Activating Places of Change Grant Scheme 2008-9 has officially closed, and 53 applications are currently being considered for grants. Watch this space to find out later this month which projects will receive a part of the £290,000 being distributed by the scheme.
Updates in the Develop your Service section
- Communities and Local Government (CLG) has announced that the 15 social enterprises competing for for a £500,000 prize fund through Spark are all winners! Read more.
- Homeless Link announced the winners of the Michael Whippman and John Laing Charitable Trust Day Centre of the Year awards.
- Homeless Link has published a report into housing organisations' use of outcomes measurement systems.
Homeless Link training
- Our short training courses provide essential skills for staff at all levels.
- Homeless Link has launched a new service to enable member organisations to have a complete training needs analysis for staff.
- Do you find that Homeless Link's scheduled courses are too far away or beyond your budget? Our Consortium training is designed for you.
- Leading places of change is a leadership programme for service managers in the homelessness sector. It has been developed jointly by the Chartered Institute of Housing, Homeless Link and Broadway and is funded by Communities and Local Government.
Please note Homeless Link no longer delivers qualifications
Moving people forward
See our pages on helping homeless people move forward with keyworking, motivational interviewing, therapies, etc. Find out how hostels, day centres and social enterprises can become places of change and how arts, lifeskills training, and meaningful occupation can contribute to successful resettlement.
Running your service
The Running your service section covers organisational issues for service providers: Management and Governance; Funding; Investing in Staff; Quality and Outcomes. Key good practice issues are Couples, Diversity and Service User Involvement.
For any comments about this section please contact craig.weeks@homelesslink.org.uk