Connect Showcase

These pages contain selected highlights from Connect, Homeless Link's quarterly magazine.

• Home stretch, by Heidi Wilson, Calderdale's lead Supporting People manager, takes a look at how she managed to get a stretch target in the for housing ex-offenders in the Local Area Agreement

• All in a day’s work describes how a Homeless Link initiative is helping day centres in London to show the savings they can make to the public purse.

• In Places of Change, Maff Potts, Ben Dickenson and Stephen Bell tell how the DCLG’s Hostels Capital Improvement Programme and Homeless Link’s regional managers are making waves right across the country.

• In Road to recovery Rose Baxter, from Addiction Recovery Agency's relapse prevention service in Bristol, explains how they involve potentially hard-to-reach clients.

• What do you do when you face barriers to involving service users? In Jumping hurdles Nicki Davey, head of consultancy at Carr Gomm, gives some tips.

• In Helping hand Andrew Hogg from the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture looks at some of the practical ways that staff in homelessness agencies can support failed asylum seekers who end up at their doors.

• In Upward mobility Paul Bridges, Operations Manager at Focus Futures, de-mystifies the role of meaningful occupation and careers guidance for young people.

• In Positive action Charlotte Tompkins and Nat Wright from Leeds University look at what staff in agencies can do to support homeless injectors with hepatitis C, based on their research.

• In Jobs Share John Hamblin of Shekinah Mission and Soo Brizell-Hogg of Business in the Community’s Ready for Work programme share their views on what makes their partnership successful.

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