Supporting women - conference programme

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10.00 - 11.00    Opening plenary: supporting women experiencing homelessness

• Chair: Jacqui McCluskey, Director of Policy & Communications, Homeless Link
• Laura Seebohm, Director of Operations for Women's Services, Changing Lives
• Kaveri Sharma, Director, London Black Women's Project
• Katie Ghose, Chief Executive, Women's Aid

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
  Sarah Cooke, One Manchester
  Victoria Aseervatham, Westminster City Council
  Catherine Glew, St Mungo's
• Working in collaboration with Local Authorities to provide different models of housing and support for women at risk of homelessness due to violence or abuse
  Gill Herd, Solace Women's Aid
  Esther Sample, Safer London
• Exploring gender differences in experiences of trauma and how this impacts on how women seek support and help
  Caroline Hattersley, women@thewell
• Women, Violence and Immigration Control: a model practice of working to support marginalised, destitute women who are homeless or at risk of homelessness
  Sandhya Sharma, Safety4Sisters North West
• How can social investment be used to improve outcomes for vulnerable women?
  Jaishree Mistry, Homeless Link
  Karen Ng, Big Society Capital

12.15 - 12.20    Switchover

12.20 - 12.45    Ministerial address

• Chair: Jacqui McCluskey, Director of Policy & Communications, Homeless Link
• Mrs Heather Wheeler MP, Minister for Housing and Homelessness

Questions and answers            

12.45 - 13.30    Lunch    

13.30 - 14.30    Masterclass series II

• Implementing a gender-informed Housing First service: improving outcomes for homeless women
  Anita Birchall & Amanda Bloxsome, Threshold
• Nowhere to turn: survivors experiences of fleeing domestic abuse
  Katie Smith & Josie Austin, Women's Aid Federation of England
• Housing Sex Working Women with Multiple and Complex Needs
  Joan Coulton & Nicki Pickup, Basis Yorkshire
  Debra Cowey, Changing Lives
• Responding to the complexity of homeless relationships through a partnership between the homelessness sector and women’s services
  Ashley Horsey, Commonweal Housing
  Sophie Gibson, Brighton Women's Centre
  Red Mills, Turning Tides
• Designing, delivering and commissioning cross-sector partnerships: a collaborative approach to reaching women experiencing multiple disadvantage, violence and abuse
  Lucy Watson, SHP
  Louisa Steele, Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse
  Victoria Aseervatham, Westminster City Council

14.30 - 14.35    Switchover

14.35 - 15.35    Masterclass series III

• Women’s Health and  rough sleeping; delivering support and healthcare to women sleeping on the streets
  Sarah Walters, Inspiring Change Manchester
  Roz Hughes, Medical Village
  Delissa Shortman
• Abuse and homelessness: supporting women experiencing  homelessness who have also experienced, or are at risk of experiencing domestic abuse
  Ruth Atkinson, AVA
  Jessica Southgate, Agenda
• Identifying victims of modern slavery amongst homeless women and understanding how to intervene to protect them
  Hekate Papadaki, Hestia Housing & Support
  Ashley Horsey, Commonweal Housing
  Kossar Butt & Eva Markova, Solace Women's Aid
• Providing coordinated, gender-informed services to support women facing multiple needs
  Chair: Vivienne Hayes, Chief Executive, Women's Resource Centre
  Lisa Young & Tessa Horvath, Homeless Link Associates
  Rebecca Steele, Lancashire Women's Centre
• Prison to home: resettling women offenders
  Dr Jenny Earle, Prison Reform Trust
  Ursula Ralph & Rachel O'Connor, Inspiring Change Manchester

15.35 - 15.50    Coffee break

15.55 - 16.45    Closing panel: how to create systems change to improve the situation for women experiencing homelessness

• Chair: Jacqui McCluskey, Director of Policy & Communications, Homeless Link
• Jemima Olchawski, Chief Executive, Agenda
• Anne Fox, Chief Executive, Clinks
• Laura Furness, Head of Funding, Big Lottery Fund
• Helen Gavaghan, MEAM
• Cat Glew, St Mungo's

16.45                Close of conference