Housing First Resources

Research

Resources available for download

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	HousingFirst4YouthFinalPrint.pdf	23/09/2021	197.84 KB	Details
Description A Housing First Europe Introductory Guide to HF for Youth
	Crisis Peer Research Understanding Homeless Health Inequality in Newcastle	07/06/2021	869.03 KB	Details
Description Understanding Homeless Health Inequality in Newcastle
	The Impact of Housing First and Peer Support.pdf	18/06/2020	40.61 KB	Details
Description The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of a local initiative, Project H3, which used housing first, harm reduction, and peer support models to provide housing for 47 homeless people who were medically vulnerable. Comparisons of interviews with participants who were housed at the day of their move-in, and 6-months and 12-months after their move-in, were conducted.
	Framework for Defining Youth Homelessness.pdf	17/12/2020	269.47 KB	Details
Description FEANSTA-European Framework for defining Youth Homelessness
	Article 1 - Reconsidering Gender.pdf	21/10/2020	429.72 KB	Details
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	Feantsa-Int_2019-14-2_ART1_v02.pdf	21/10/2020	522.65 KB	Details
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	Analysis of Housing First as a Practical and Policy Relevant Intervention.pdf	15/07/2020	685.89 KB	Details
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	Housing First Elements Facilitating Resilience.pdf	18/06/2020	429.85 KB	Details
Description Four years after launching Hábitat Housing First programme, some questions arise from the intervention. As Housing First principles state, dealing with addiction crises at home allows service users to reduce harm in a safe place. The aim of this paper is to identify personal and interpersonal skills, as well as strategies to deal with addiction crises.

Reports

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	Feely independent-review-adult-care-scotland.pdf	02/03/2021	4,206.34 KB	Details
Description Scottish Government review of Adult Social Care in Scotland.
	Best Practices in Youth Homelessness, Practices and Services	09/07/2021	625.38 KB	Details
Description FEANTSA guide to services and practice
	Investment in Affordable and Social Housing Feansta Report.pdf	02/03/2021	3,316.45 KB	Details
Description Eup. Federation of National Organisations working with the homeless
	Health-Wellbeing-and-the-COVID-19-Pandemic-Final-Report (1) (2).pdf	02/03/2021	6,501.53 KB	Details
Description Scottish Experiences and Priorities for the future.
	CSJ-Close-to-Home-2021.pdf	02/03/2021	5,983.63 KB	Details
Description Delivering a national Housing First Program in England.
	Housing First One Year Report 2020.pdf	17/12/2020	959.20 KB	Details
Description Housing First Check Up-Housing First Scotland
	Housing First in The UK and Ireland.pdf	18/06/2020	1,015.04 KB	Details
Description This publication has been produced by the CIH Policy and Practice teams across the UK. It is intended to provide information about how Housing First is working across the UK and Ireland, to highlight some of the challenges involved in developing Housing First and encourage discussion among housing practitioners.
	HARSAG Covid final report.pdf	11/08/2020	1,268.48 KB	Details
Description Reconvened HARSAG report Homelessness and Covid-19
	Homelessness Monitor England 2020 Covid19 Crisis Response Briefing.pdf	17/08/2020	1,186.83 KB	Details
Description Crisis Covid Response England
	The Impact of Homelessness on Women's Health_Research Report 2018 Ireland.pdf	21/10/2020	370.59 KB	Details
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	After 10 years of Housing First in TPS - The key messages	29/01/2021	409.51 KB	Details
Description Turning Point Scotland Housing First Key Messages from 10 years
	Wisdom-from-Behind-Closed-Doors-by-Mayday-Trust.pdf	17/12/2020	888.52 KB	Details
Description Mayday Trust-Wisdom from Behind Closed Doors.
	National-Framework-For-Housing-First-CONSULTATION-NOV-DEC-2020.pdf	17/12/2020	1,552.79 KB	Details
Description National Framework for Housing First. Starting up or Scaling up.
	Scottish Government-Homelessness in Scotland 2019-20	17/12/2020	599.21 KB	Details
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	Housing First Wales Accreditation	17/12/2020	598.19 KB	Details
Description Housing First Wales Accreditation.
	CanadianHousingFirstToolkit.pdf	17/12/2020	6,256.41 KB	Details
Description Canadian Housing First Toolkit
	A-WOMANS-PLACE---GENDER-HOUSING-AND-HOMELESSNESS-IN-SCOTLAND.pdf	21/10/2020	258.59 KB	Details
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	Rapport_Europe_2020_GB.pdf	21/10/2020	12,990.01 KB	Details
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	Ending Homelessness Together Action Plan.pdf	18/06/2020	1,837.05 KB	Details
Description This 2018 Action Plan sets out how the Scottish Government, local authorities and partners will implement the recommendations of the Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Action Group to drive real and lasting change towards ending homelessness.
	What Works in Homelessness Services 2018.pdf	18/06/2020	2,241.94 KB	Details
Description Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) are grateful to Crisis for commissioning this study, which seeks to identify and review existing evidence on what works to end homelessness. The study is intended to inform Crisis’s forthcoming plan to end homelessness and also to be a resource for those working to end homelessness in the UK.
	In Praise of Slow Inclusion.pdf	18/06/2020	230.75 KB	Details
Description By 1986, an Italian called Carlos Petrini had finally had enough fast food. He was tired of watching lonely Joe walking down the street wolfing a burger that looked exactly the same whether it was Paris and Pisa, January or July. He was bored with millimetre-exact but tasteless tomatoes. He was troubled by the clearance of rainforests to raise beef for appetites on the other side of the world. He was saddened by obesity and ill-health driven by just too much food processing. Carlos invented the Slow Food movement and so began a quiet revolution.
	Depaul Housing First Fidelity Report 2018.pdf	18/06/2020	5,375.55 KB	Details
Description This report is the outcome of a Fidelity Assessment that was carried out on two Depaul Housing First Services (in Belfast and Derry/Londonderry). It assesses how closely both of these services remain compliant to the original model of a Housing First service as originally developed by Dr Sam Tsemberis and colleagues at the Pathways to Housing National Organisation in New York, USA.
	Housing First In Canada.pdf	18/06/2020	12,480.92 KB	Details
Description This document is designed to help create and enhance an understanding of Housing First practice, programs, philosophy and principles in a Canadian context. It is intended to provide practical guidance to service providers across the country on what Housing First is, and how it can be implemented.
	Housing First Fidelity Guidance.pdf	18/06/2020	346.19 KB	Details
Description This document provides information on how services can be designed and delivered with high adherence (known as fidelity) to the Housing First principles. Services with high fidelity are the most effective at supporting people. This briefing explains why that is important and what the principles mean in practice.
	Measuring Residents Progress.pdf	18/06/2020	168.13 KB	Details
Description It is good practice to monitor the progress of Housing First residents, but because the services and the cohort they are aimed at differ from traditional services, it is important to also approach outcome measurement differently. This document aims to share staff’s recommendations on how services can effectively measure the progress made by the individuals they are supporting.
	Housing First - An Evaluation.pdf	18/06/2020	7,170.82 KB	Details
Description East Dunbartonshire Council and Turning Point Scotland have embarked upon delivering the Housing First model for 12 clients as a 5-year project, aided by Big Lottery funding. This report aims to provide an overview of the model to date from the point of view of those involved in it; both clients as well as people involved in support, strategy, allocations and policy, including an insight into the financial aspects.
	TPS Housing First Final Report.pdf	18/06/2020	1,049.62 KB	Details
Description The Housing First pilot was developed by Turning Point Scotland (TPS) in response to high levels of repeat homelessness amongst people with active substance misuse problems in Glasgow. It has involved a three-year pilot running from October 2010 until September 2013, providing housing and support to 22 individuals who were homeless and actively involved in substance misuse (drugs, alcohol, or poly-substance misuse) at the point of recruitment. The pilot was funded by TPS, the Big Lottery Fund, and Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board.
	Housing First Europe.pdf	18/06/2020	2,927.45 KB	Details
Description The Housing First Europe Guide is the product of a multi-national team with experience in operating Housing First across several member nations. Our goal was to describe how to implement and operate Housing First throughout Europe. The need for this Guide arose because of the rapid increase in the dissemination of Housing First to address homelessness throughout the EU. Housing First has proven highly effective in addressing homelessness and this Guide seeks to provide the information necessary to implement, staff and operate an effective Housing First program. Today, there are Housing First programs in many European countries and that number is increasing because Housing First is now also a core component of many EU member states’ homelessness policies.
	Europe Report.pdf	18/06/2020	555.31 KB	Details
Description The Peer Review, which took place in Brussels on 16–17 March 2016, discussed the results of Housing First Belgium (HFB), a national scheme to implement and test the Housing First approach. Housing First provides rapid access to permanent housing and intensive, multidimensional support to homeless people with complex needs without requiring them to be “housing ready” or to show sobriety, compliance with medication etc. The only requirements are to follow the normal residential tenancy laws and — in most cases — to accept regular home visits by service providers.
	Housing First Toolkit Canada.pdf	18/06/2020	6,256.41 KB	Details
Description This toolkit is based on the experience of the Canadian At Home/Chez Soi project that used the Pathways to Housing model of Housing First for homeless people with mental illness. While the toolkit has a mental health focus because it is based on the At Home/Chez Soi experience, it is applicable to and can be adapted to other segments of the homeless population (e.g., youth, families), many of which also experience mental health challenges.

Specific Housing First Provision

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	Housing First for Women experiencing Violence and Abuse	17/12/2020	181.91 KB	Details
Description Housing First for women experiencing violence and abuse
	Housing First for Youth:Europe	21/10/2020	7,633.88 KB	Details
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	Housing First for Women	21/10/2020	181.91 KB	Details
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	HF4Y-Evaluation-Report-July-2020-Final.pdf	17/08/2020	6,421.92 KB	Details
Description Rock Trust HF 4 Youth Evaluation
	Housing First for Youth.pdf	18/06/2020	2,855.41 KB	Details
Description Housing First for Youth (HF4Y) is a rights-based intervention for young people (aged 13-24) who experience homelessness, or who are at risk. It is designed to address the needs of developing adolescents and young adults by providing them with immediate access to housing that is safe, affordable and appropriate, and the necessary and age-appropriate supports that focus on health, well-being, life skills, engagement in education and employment, and social inclusion.
	St Mungos Womens Strategy 2019.pdf	18/06/2020	941.56 KB	Details
Description St Mungo’s has long known that homelessness is different for women, and that expecting women to thrive in traditional, male-dominated homelessness services is not good enough. Our Women’s Strategy is designed to address the ways in which women experience homelessness differently from men, equipping us to achieve equally positive outcomes with our female clients.

Wider Aspects of Housing First

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	HF Systems Fidelity Blog.pdf	15/07/2020	453.17 KB	Details
Description Should wider systems consider how their processes support Housing First.
	Understanding PIE - A Current Context.pdf	18/06/2020	976.29 KB	Details
Description This document summarises the conversations that Golden Key had with people who know about and / or who might be affected by Psychologically Informed Environments (PIEs). Together with current research and the ideas summarised, this information was used to develop the goals for the PIE approach.
	Asset Based Community Development - How to Get Started.pdf	18/06/2020	5,934.83 KB	Details
Description If you love your community in principle, but wonder, “what can I do to get going?” in practice, then this handbook is for you. And if you are an experienced community builder eager to invite more people to contribute to the well-being of their community, you’ll find plenty here to energise you. This short practical guide offers many fun and useful tips on how you and your neighbours can build community together, in a way that starts with a focus on what’s strong, not what’s wrong.

Communities of Practice

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	A Way Home Scotland-Youth Homelessness Prevention Pathways	05/07/2021	30.00 KB	Details
Description A Way Home Scotland-Youth Homelessness Prevention Pathways
	Alex Smith Image.png	07/06/2021	281.07 KB	Details
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	Alex Smith Blog Housing Providers and Partnership working	07/06/2021	16.03 KB	Details
Description Alex Smith Housing First and housing providers.
	Manchester Housing First Pilot	17/05/2021	27.50 KB	Details
Description Martine Whitehead writes about the HF Pilot in Greater Manchester
	Martine Whitehead.jpg	17/05/2021	66.77 KB	Details
Description Martine Whitehead Greater Manchester Housing First