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Resources

Guidance and tools to help you achieve the best for the people you support.

Mental Health and Homelessness Resources

Guidance and resources to help support workers respond to the mental health needs of people experiencing homelessness.
Working with Mental Health Services

Building effective working relationships between homelessness and mental health services
Taking action when someone dies while street homeless

Each year, people die while homeless on the streets. These deaths rarely instigate formal review, but lessons must be learned for effective safeguarding and prevention.
Guidance on Severe Weather Emergency Protocol (SWEP) and extended weather provision

Guidance and case studies to help you develop suitable responses during the winter and periods of severe weather.
Counts and Estimates 2018 - evaluating the extent of rough sleeping

This toolkit sets out the process that local authorities, and their partners, use to evaluate the extent of people sleeping rough, by carrying out either a snapshot count or evidence-based estimate.
Positive approaches

An influx of innovation; understanding new approaches to support in the homelessness sector
The Manchester Homelessness Partnership

Sharing the learning from Manchester's co-produced, grassroots response to homelessness
Trauma Informed Care and Psychologically Informed Environments

Practical, accessible guidance for frontline teams to use trauma and psychologically informed approaches and improve services for vulnerable people
Suicide Prevention

Guidance for homelessness services to develop their organisational approach to suicide prevention
Personal Independence Payments (PIP) and Mental Health

Guidance on claiming Personal Independence Payments (PIP) for people with mental health conditions.