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Over 170 participants joined this HSCWRU Homelessness Series webinar to hear and discuss new findings from an NIHR School for Social Care Research (SSCR) funded project which has been Evidencing the social work role within responses to multiple exclusion homelessness. It has explored the impact, experiences and support needs of the specialist homelessness social worker role and system barriers that may need to be overcome. The project, led by Jess Harris, builds on the findings of the Unit’s SSCR funded Adult safeguarding, homelessness and self-neglect study. Participants shared their own experiences and made connections with peers across the country.
Feedback included:
‘Brilliant presentation - very interesting and thought provoking - thank you - lots of points for further discussion and development.’
‘Great presentation with practical ideas and supportive attitudes towards people experiencing homelessness (and the people involved with) trying to support them.’
Forthcoming webinars in this series are here.
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Presentation by Research Fellow Jess Harris. The next in this series is on homelessness in social work education on 20 September 2023. All welcome.
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An event for anyone commissioning, managing or working in adult social care or in multi-disciplinary services for people experiencing homelessness.
This event will share the findings from an NIHR School for Social Care Research (SSCR) funded project which has been Evidencing the social work role within responses to multiple exclusion homelessness.
It has explored the added value that an embedded social worker within a homelessness setting may bring to responses to homelessness, including the experiences, impact and support needs of the role and the system barriers that need to be overcome.
This event is led by Jess Harris, Research Fellow, HSCWRU, King's College London, who is also carrying out allied research into the role of social work education in relation to working this group.
The event, which takes place on MS Teams only, is part of our Homelessness series.
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