The whole person
Homelessness, multiple disadvantage and mental health.
Three and a half hours on the whole person: homelessness and its causes, the scale in Wales and England, multiple disadvantage, mental health, and the law around mental health services.
- Level
- Focus
- Learning time
- 3 hours 30 minutes
- Where
- Homelessness, Mental Health and Multiple Disadvantage
- Price
- £69
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. Read the full terms
Certificate of Completion, or Certificate of Completion and Assessment with a short assessment
Overview and Outcomes.
Who It's For
Leaders and practitioners in housing, councils, the NHS, mental health services, police and charities supporting people experiencing homelessness.
Overview
This Focus brings together the foundations for understanding homelessness, multiple disadvantage and mental health. It begins with the full spectrum of homelessness, person-first language, Keyes's dual continua and the Welsh Adverse Childhood Experiences study. It then reads the figures in Wales and England, including hidden homelessness and the shifting the burden pattern. Multiple disadvantage follows, through Hard Edges and the MEAM Approach, reframing complex people as complex systems. It closes with the two-way cycle between mental health and homelessness, the no wrong door approach, and mental health law from the 1983 Act to the Mental Health Act 2025.
Aims
This Focus aims to develop leaders who see the whole person behind every figure, understand how homelessness, mental health and multiple disadvantage interact, and shape services that fit people rather than asking people to fit services, from the first contact through to a good discharge from hospital.
In summary, you will be able to:
- Describe homelessness, mental health and multiple disadvantage as connected parts of one picture.
- Identify where your service creates gaps or barriers for people facing several disadvantages at once.
- Plan practical steps towards coordinated, person-centred support in your own area.
What you'll develop
Through this Focus course, you will build the ability to:
- Apply the five things leaders do to move your services from managing homelessness towards ending it, so that services fit people rather than people fitting services.
- Interpret the headline figures on rough sleeping and temporary accommodation in Wales and England, including how each nation counts and why the figures are not like for like.
- Explain the reframing from complex people to complex systems, and how services built for one need create gaps for people facing several.
- Apply a no wrong door approach, with warm handovers, shared plans and joint assessments, to remove designed-in barriers to care and make rights reachable.
- Plan a good discharge for someone at risk of homelessness, treating discharge as a transition and drawing on section 117 aftercare and the homelessness duties on public bodies.
Built from 2 parts.
3 hours 30 minutes of learning.
- 01Hard edgesHomelessness, its scale and multiple disadvantageBitesize3 modules
- 02Minds under pressureMental health, homelessness and the lawBitesize2 modules
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 hereFocus, 3 hours 30 minutes, £69
- Next stepExplore, Behind every door, 6 hours, £129. Already own the Focus? You pay £60.
- The whole topicImmerse, No wrong door, 11 hours, £249. Already own the Focus? You pay £180.
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, Health and care, joined up, Every door the right door
Other Focus in the Homelessness, Mental Health and Multiple Disadvantage topic
- From crisis to homeHarm reduction, homelessness law, Housing First and trauma-informed services4 hours£69
- Working with, not doing toLived experience, safeguarding, systems and measurement4 hours£69
See all in Homelessness, Mental Health and Multiple Disadvantage