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Over 210 people attended today’s webinar, part of the Homelessness series from HSCWRU at King's, which considered Trauma-sensitive assessment practices with the 'Your Story' approach, which promotes culture change between individuals and services so ways of working are more relational, human and power-balanced. Attendees came from across England and as far afield as the Czech Republic.
The speakers were Katarzyna ‘Katy’ Krysiak and Emma Stevens, both Project Officers in Plymouth City Council, working with the Changing Futures Plymouth Programme, and Sarah, a ‘Your Story’ Lived Experience participant.
Some remarks from attendees following the webinar:
Thank you so much Sarah. As someone with lived experience of homelessness and substance abuse, I know how you feel. Thank you for doing this work.
Absolutely fantastic piece of work. Wonderful to hear from you. Thank you all for the presentation and to King’s College London for setting this up.
Just to say how much I appreciate the webinar series – invaluable learning. Thank you for putting them on!
Coming up
The next webinar in this series is Built for Zero: Community data driven solutions to end rough sleeping on 19 June 2025; the July event in the Homelessness series is also now open for booking.
Please get in touch with Jess Harris if you would like to join the mailing list to hear about future events
This webinar will explore the 'Your Story' project, which aims to promote culture change within assessment practice, so ways of working between individuals and services are more relational, human, power-balanced, and trauma-informed.
Through co-production methods, a tool has been developed by people with lived experience to enable people experiencing multiple disadvantage to:
- Take control of their information when using services
- Share their story in a way that matters to them
- Reduce the need to repeat their story and risk re-traumatisation.
The webinar will be co-led by:
Katarzyna "Katy" Krysiak, Project Officer in Plymouth City Council, working with the Changing Futures Plymouth Programme, has eight years of experience in housing/homelessness, and recently expanded her focus to address multiple disadvantage and system change.
Emma Stevens, Project Officer working in the Changing Futures Plymouth Programme, has a strong interest in understanding systems of oppression and privilege, and how those with lived experience of disadvantage can guide systems-change.
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.
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.
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