Women's Spaces in Homelessness Settings: Best Practice Webinar

The Women's Development Unit is a partnership project between The Connection at St Martin’s and Solace Women’s Aid, working collaboratively with homeless women, services and stakeholders in Central London. Bringing together the wealth of expertise across the homelessness and VAWG sectors, we look to build a strategy that will make a tangible difference to the lives of homeless women.The Women's Development Unit  is funded by The London Community Foundation and ESI The Homeless Fund.The Connection at St Martin'sThe Connection at St Martin’s helps thousands of people every year to move away from, and stay off, the streets of London. We do this by tackling the underlying causes of rough sleeping as well as offering practical help.We provide tailored employment support and training, volunteering opportunities and housing advice. We also provide a variety of specialist services to help clients cope with the physical and psychological effects of being homeless, empowering them to develop their strengths and ability to change their own future and recover from homelessness – working with clients, not for them.Solace Women's AidFor more than 40 years, Solace has supported women and children in London to build safe and strong lives. Futures free from male abuse and violence.We know that women across London are experiencing domestic and sexual violence right now. Whatever form violence comes in, from rape and trafficking to relationships based on psychological or financial control, we work to end it. But we know escaping violence can be the hardest thing to ever do. That’s why it's so important we’re here.We find creative and innovative ways to support thousands of women and children each year. Stand with us to end violence and abuse now.

Women's Development Unit

A webinar for commissioners and service providers supporting women experiencing homelessness and multiple disadvantage.

The Women’s Development Unit is a London-based partnership project between The Connection at St Martin’s and Solace Women’s Aid. Its aim is to support collaboration across the women’s specialist and homelessness sectors, to enhance the voices of homeless women in relevant national and local strategies and to drive forward improvements in service provision for women facing severe and multiple disadvantage.Women experiencing homelessness repeatedly state that they often feel unsafe in mixed-sex services, yet only 10% of homelessness services nationally have any form of women-only provision. Male-dominated environments can often be a barrier to women accessing services at all, particularly in the context of the heightened risk of gender-based violence that rough sleeping women face. A lack of a safe spaces for homeless women is a barrier to accessing support and beginning journeys to recovery, and is a key gap we can collectively address. In consultation with stakeholders across the homelessness and specialist women’s sectors and women with lived experience, the Women’s Development Unit has created guidance on creating trauma-informed, women-only provision within homelessness services. This webinar highlights best practice and seeks to support homelessness services, and partner agencies, to increase women’s provision within their organisations to improve outcomes for women experiencing homelessness. The Women's Development Unit has created this guidance as a part of its new Strategy for Ending Women's Homelessness in London. Our guidance and strategy documents and more information about our work can be found here: <a href="https://www.connection-at-stmartins.org.uk/womens-development-unit-a-partnership-to-end-womens-homelessness/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.connection-at-stmartins.org.uk/womens-development-unit-a-partnership-to-end-womens-homelessness.</a>If you have any queries, please contact Niamh Kehoe at Niamh.Kehoe@cstm.org.uk or call 07736973015.

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