Supporting women - conference programme

National conference that will share gendered multi-agency approaches to providing holistic support to women.

10.00 - 11.00 Opening plenary: supporting women experiencing homelessness

Chair: Jacqui McCluskey, Director of Policy & Communications, Homeless Link
Mrs Heather Wheeler MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Housing, Communities and Local Government) (invited)
Kaveri Sharma, Director, London Black Womens Project (invited)
Katie Ghose, Chief Executive, Women's Aid (invited)

Questions and answers

11.00 - 11.15 Coffee break

11.15 - 12.15 Masterclass series I

Supporting longer-term female rough sleepers: a panel discussion
Working in collaboration with Local Authorities to provide different models of housing and support for homeless women at risk of homelessness due to violence or abuse
Exploring gender differences in experiences of trauma and how this impacts on how women seek support and help
Women, Violence and Immigration Control: a model practice of working to support marginalised, destitute women who are homeless or at risk of homelessness
How can social investment be used to improve outcomes for vulnerable women?

12.15 - 12.20 Switch over

12.20 - 13.20 Masterclass series II

Implementing a gender informed Housing First service: improving outcomes for homeless women
Nowhere to turn: survivors experiences of fleeing domestic abuse
Housing Sex Working Women with Multiple and Complex Needs
Responding to the complexity of homeless relationships through a partnership between the homelessness sector and women’s services
Designing, delivering and commissioning cross sector partnerships: a collaborative approach to reaching women experiencing multiple disadvantage, violence and abuse

13.20 - 14.10 Lunch

14.10 - 15.10 Masterclass series III

Women’s Health and rough sleeping; delivering support and healthcare to women sleeping on the streets
Abuse and homelessness: supporting women experiencing homelessness who have also experienced, or are at risk of experiencing, domestic abuse
Identifying victims of modern slavery amongst homeless women and understanding how to intervene to protect them
Providing co-ordinated, gender informed services to support women facing multiple needs
Prison to home: resettling women offenders

15.10 - 15.25 Coffee break

15.25 - 16.25 Closing panel: how to create systems change to improve the situation for women experiencing homelessness