Title:

Tackling Homelessness

Description:

This course offers two e-learning sessions to support the health and care workforce to understand the health impacts of homelessness, identify different forms of homelessness, gain practical steps to making a referral and highlights ways your organisation can implement the duty effectively.

Session 1 - All our Health Homelessness: This session provides an overview of the topic of homelessness to equip health and care professionals with the evidence, data and resources they need to take action on homelessness in your professional practice.

Session 2 - Duty to Refer for Frontline NHS staff: This session describes the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017 duty to refer and provides practical steps to identify people experiencing homelessness. This includes information on how to obtain consent to make a referral to a local housing authority and the steps front-line staff and managers can take to implement the duty to refer.

Hierarchy:

Tackling Homelessness > Tackling Homelessness

Keywords:

AOH, All Our Health, intervention, health, professional, homelessness, homelessness prevention, homeless, rough sleeping, rough Sleeping Strategy, housing, accommodation, poverty, inequality, unemployment drug, drugs, alcohol substance misuse, physical health, domestic abuse, mental health, wellbeing, Homelessness Reduction Act, duty to refer, Personalised Housing plans, inclusion health, public health, homelessness, homeless, housing, duty to refer, homelessness reduction act 2017, consent, local housing authority

Created:

7 Apr 2020

Updated:

7 Apr 2020