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Housing First in England: The Principles
Author(s): Homeless Link
Organization: Homeless Link
Publication Date: 2016
This document details the key principles required for designing and delivering Housing First in England. It is not exhaustive but can be used to start an internal process of reviewing your project. Over the course of the Housing First England project, other guidance will be developed to support you to commission, design and deliver effective Housing First services in line with these principles. This information, when complete, will be published o...
Using your Star data
Author(s): Homeless Link
Organization: London Housing Foundation
Publication Date: 2009
The Outcomes Star is designed to enable services to take an overview of their achievements by providing valuable data on the outcomes of service users. It opens the possibility of comparing outcomes for different types of service user (e.g. men and women) or different services or interventions. However, to use the data in this way, it is essential that the data collected on individual service users is summarised across the service on a regular ba...
Good practice in implementation
Author(s): Homeless Link
Organization: London Housing Foundation
Publication Date: 2009
Most organisations chose the Star to support keywork and/or for organisational learning; commissioner requirements had much lower priority. Download the Outcomes Star Organisation Guide for guidance on implementing the Star.
Benefits of using the Star
Author(s): Homeless Link
Organization: London Housing Foundation
Publication Date: 2009
This section contains fundings, good practice guidance and case studies from the Impact and Good Practice Research Report, which is available to download as a PDF. Download this report A summary document is also available. Triangle Consulting undertook a piece of research to find out the impact that using the Star had on for 25 organisations who had been using the Star for a year or more. These 25 organisations were interviewed to find out how...
Who is using the Outcomes Star?
Author(s): Homeless Link
Organization: London Housing Foundation
Publication Date: 2009
The Outcomes Star is being adopted by numerous homelessness agencies, many of which have been supported to take up the approach by the London Housing Foundation and Triangle Consulting including: - Thames Reach - Single Homeless Project - St Mungo's Click here to view case studies on organisations using the Star.
Ending Homelessness Together: 10 years, 10 Steps, 1 Ambition
Author(s): Homeless Link
Publication Date: 2010
Over the past two decades successive initiatives have helped our country make real progress. We have heard the stories of people who experience homelessness and understood that it blights lives. We have decided to take action. From initiatives to tackle rough sleeping, families stuck in bed and breakfast or temporary accommodation, to investment in hostels to make them “Places of Change” and help for people to keep their homes during the recessio...
Handbooks: Education, Training and Employment (International)
Author(s): Homeless Link
Publication Date: 2008
This new section of the Homeless Link website is dedicated to education, training and employment services for homeless and socially excluded people. It features good practice guidance and considerations for a wide range of services and activities, from engagement and stabilization activities, to volunteering, placements, self-employment and social enterprise. It is designed for homelessness service workers and managers to find resources to suppor...
Streets Ahead: Good Practice in Tackling Rough Sleeping Through Street Outreach Services (International)
Author(s): Homeless Link
Publication Date: 2008
This good practice project is the first national (European) evaluation of street outreach for five years. It examines six different good practice themes relating to the delivery of vital outreach services that can prevent early homelessness from becoming entrenched or engage people who have been excluded from mainstream services and often society itself for many years. (Authors)