A home first
Housing First and psychologically informed services.
- Level
- Bitesize
- Learning time
- 1 hour 15 minutes
- Where
- Homelessness, Mental Health and Multiple Disadvantage
- Price
- £39
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Certificate of Completion
Overview and Outcomes.
Overview
Housing First offers people with long histories of homelessness and multiple disadvantage a settled home first, with flexible support around the tenancy. This module traces the model from Sam Tsemberis and Pathways to Housing to Finland's national strategy, sets out Homeless Link's seven principles and why fidelity matters, and reads the evidence and costs from England's regional pilots honestly, including what the model needs to work in Wales. For people who have lived with trauma, a service's building, rules and relationships are never neutral. This module sets out SAMHSA's six trauma-informed principles and the history and five elements of psychologically informed environments, from Johnson and Haigh to the 2012 good practice guide and PIE 2.0. It explores behaviour as communication, boundaries that are clear without being punitive, and practical ways to make exclusion the exception.
What you'll develop
In this Bitesize, you will develop the ability to:
- Explain how Housing First differs from the staircase model, and why it treats a home as a foundation for recovery rather than a reward.
- Assess whether a service is true to Homeless Link's seven Housing First principles, and recognise how small changes to caseloads, support or conditions erode fidelity.
- Interpret the evidence and value case from England's regional pilots honestly, and identify the conditions your area needs for Housing First to work.
- Explain why the building, rules and relationships of a service are part of the support, using SAMHSA's six principles and the five elements of a PIE.
- Distinguish trauma-informed boundaries that are clear, consistent and fair from both rigid, punitive rules and an anything goes culture.
- Plan practical steps to make exclusion the exception in your service, from reviewing every exclusion to redesigning spaces and rules with residents.
The Modules.
1 hour 15 minutes of learning.
- 10Housing FirstHousing First offers people with long histories of homelessness and multiple disadvantage a settled home first, with flexible support around the tenancy. This module traces the model from Sam Tsemberis and Pathways to Housing to Finland's national strategy, sets out Homeless Link's seven principles and why fidelity matters, and reads the evidence and costs from England's regional pilots honestly, including what the model needs to work in Wales.39 min
- 11Trauma-Informed and Psychologically Informed ServicesFor people who have lived with trauma, a service's building, rules and relationships are never neutral. This module sets out SAMHSA's six trauma-informed principles and the history and five elements of psychologically informed environments, from Johnson and Haigh to the 2012 good practice guide and PIE 2.0. It explores behaviour as communication, boundaries that are clear without being punitive, and practical ways to make exclusion the exception.39 min
Keep going.
Part of the Homelessness, Mental Health and Multiple Disadvantage topic, also sold whole as No wrong door.
Go deeper, and pay only the difference
- You are hereBitesize, 1 hour 15 minutes, £39
- Next stepFocus, From crisis to home, 4 hours, £69. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £30.
- Explore, Services that hold people, 5 hours 30 minutes, £129. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £90.
- The whole topicImmerse, No wrong door, 11 hours, £249. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £210.
When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Prices per person. Read the full terms
Also part of: Health, care and home, Home as the foundation, Every door the right door
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- Voice and safetyLived experience, peer leadership and safeguarding adults1 hour 15 minutes£39
- Holding the system togetherWorking across the system and staff wellbeing1 hour 15 minutes£39
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