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
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