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Homeless Link Events
Rt Hon Margaret Hodge, MBE, meets Jan from Streetshine
Homeless Link has a growing programme of national conferences and regional seminars that address the latest topics of interest in the homeless sector and tackle the governments' agenda in relation to homelessness. Previous themes covered have included: anti-social behaviour, prevention, risk, staff development and quality of life.
We recognise that homelessness is not an issue in isolation and aim to work with partners in the voluntary sector to run events with draw together staff from across the sector. Our conference partners have come from many different fields including the drugs and the criminal justice sectors.
Connecting with communities, 8-10 July 2008, University of Warwick
Local Solutions: National Impact
Homeless Link Annual Conference 2008
This flagship event in the Homeless Link conference calendar is essential for anyone interested in ending homelessness through social cohesion and community engagement. The conference will focus on the community agenda and on ensuring that everyone in society, even those who are the most vulnerable and with the most complex needs, has an opportunity to play a significant role in the improvement of local communities.
Delegates will hear about current government thinking on empowering citizens, building strong communities and the importance of this for homeless people and the homelessness sector. Good practice workshops will include examples of how to effectively link up and access local services and how homeless people can play an active part in the development of their communities.
Featuring
- debate and interaction with senior government officials
- streamed programme of workshops tailored to meet your requirements
- social and cultural programme to complement the main programme.
Joining the dots, 15 May 2008, London
Connecting the evidence base for homelessness policy and practice
One-day research conference
This conference provides a rare opportunity to pull together some of the exciting, new research that has been conducted into homelessness and related fields in recent years.
Joining the dots is the only conference that offers policy makers and service managers the chance to talk directly to researchers about their findings and understand, through interactive workshops, how they are relevant to their work. Getting to grips with the evidence base helps them provide the best possible services to their customers and allocate resources most effectively.
At the same time, researchers have the chance to discuss and share the practical application of their work directly with those who realise change in policy and practice.
Making the extraordinary ordinary, 1 April 2008, London
Employing service users in the homelessnes sector
Employing people with a personal experience of homelessness can bring a whole new dimension and vital improvements to an organisation’s reputation, financial situation, service delivery, as well as numerous benefits to the service user employee.
This event informed working practices to encourage the employment of homeless people within the homelessness sector. It explored the benefits of service user employment as well as possible barriers and solutions, backed up by existing models of good practice.
It was an event that helped shape the future of service delivery in the homelessness sector by using the first-hand expertise, knowledge and enthusiasm of people who have themselves experienced homelessness.
Homelessness ICT Connections
Information Communication Technology (ICT) has the ability to transform the ways in which homelessness staff work and to raise service user skills to positively change lives. ICT can be effective, specific to your needs and simple, and these events will help your organisation in finding what ICT can do for you.
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