People experiencing homelessness often face interconnected challenges — chronic physical illness, mental health needs, substance dependence, trauma, and extreme social instability. Too often, services respond to these issues separately, leaving individuals cycling between emergency departments, temporary accommodation, the streets, and crisis services.

This webinar introduces the proposed Stabilisation Centre in Coventry — not a hospital step-down facility, but a dedicated health and homelessness intervention for people with multiple and overlapping needs.

The model focuses on stabilisation rather than admission or discharge. It brings together clinical care, psychosocial support, and housing coordination within a trauma-informed environment, aiming to interrupt repeated crisis presentations and create a platform for longer-term recovery and engagement. The session will explore:

• Why traditional acute and community pathways struggle to meet the needs of this cohort
• The role of stigma, fragmentation and system design in driving repeat crisis use
• How a stabilisation approach could improve health outcomes while reducing pressure on emergency services
• Key design principles, partnership requirements and implementation challenges

This webinar is for everyone interested in solutions at the intersection of health inequality and homelessness.

The webinar will be led by:

Laney Holland, Lead Nurse for Homelessness Pathways, University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire. Over 20 years of experience, particularly focussing on critically important issues about race, gender and exclusion. Previously a Specialist Midwife for Substance & Alcohol Misuse, with an understanding of systems not set up to respond to the impact of trauma.

John Toman, Rough Sleeping Manager at Coventry City Council. Leads teams that support people to move from the streets into accommodation, sustain tenancies, and build stability in their own homes. Previously spent 10 years as a drug worker, specialising in behaviour change and group work, and is committed to developing creative responses to complex social challenges.

Homelessness series at King's

This webinar, which takes place on MS Teams only, is part of the Homelessness series, organised out of the NIHR Health and Social Care Workforce Research Unit, King's College London, by Research Fellow Jess Harris.

The Unit is home to the Homelessness Research Programme at King's College London.

We generally send out the slides following meetings and post them here, but do not record sessions.

Please get in touch with Jess Harris if you would like to join the mailing list for the Homelessness series.