Thrilled to be in sunny Brighton today for #CHRPConference2024 - Psychology, Homelessness and Policy: Understanding the Complexity of Homelessness Policy through the lens of Psychology

"How does policy consider the complexity of homelessness and the interaction between the individual and the system?" #CHRPConference2024

"The opposite of exclusion is not just inclusion, but belonging" #CHRPConference2024

"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" - HL Mencken @nick_maguire5 speaks about the dangers of 'panacea thinking' - oversimplifying difficult problems. #CHRPConference2024

Thought-provoking talk on psychological approaches to policy: complexity, community and workforce @nick_maguire5 Jennifer Tarabay #CHRPConference2024

Charlie Wood and Jamie Glasspool from OutcomeHome highlight the impact policy can have on the ground - e.g. shortfalls in housing benefit/universal credit --> service arrears/potential eviction; revolving door between prison release and homelessness #CHRPConference2024

Crucially important conversations about unhelpfulness of categorical approach - language matters. "Dual diagnosis" inherently implies 2 discrete problems, 2 services, separate commissioning etc. Need to stop medicalising distress linked to adversity/poverty #CHRPConference2024

"People are whole people, they're more than just who they are when they come into contact with your service" #CHRPConference2024

Francesca Albanese from Crisis highlighting the crisis of social housing, one factor in many perpetuating and worsening homelessness #CHRPConference2024

Great to hear practical ideas about having an influence on both national and local policy from 🅱🅴🅲🅺🆈 🆆🅰🆁🅳 #CHRPConference2024

Thank you so much for a brilliant day Centre for Homelessness Research and Practice! I am buzzing. Takeaway message? “Systems may be complex but being compassionate isn’t” (Alex Bax)

⁦Justlife⁩ was delighted to share learning from our co-produced peer research programme at ⁦Centre for Homelessness Research and Practice⁩ regional conference today. We are committed to keeping lived experience at the heart of everything we do and we have learnt so much from our peers.

Mark World Refugee Day 2024 by joining colleagues on Thursday 20th of June for an afternoon screening of three short films: ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/brigh… BSMS

Fantastic day focusing our attention to the policy which shapes homelessness at a critical political time. In the Unheard Voices stream we hoped to bring attention to the lack of access to menstrual healthcare for people experiencing homelessness. #CHRPConference2024

Check Alice’s blog sharing her experience doing her clinical psych placement in homelessness! “This has involved getting rid of my pad and pen… Sometimes just being you is the most important thing, and the therapy techniques are just added extras.” chrphomeless.co.uk/2024/06/05/doi…

When young people leave care, they often feel alone and on the cliff edge. Can we change things for the better? We think so - and these young people have some good ideas of how! Come and listen to them. eventbrite.co.uk/e/moving-towar… #careleavers Jennifer Tarabay

What a day! Such an inspiration to work with young people from Speak Out Group from Step by Step Lodgings and co-create a policy brief involving policy and practice recommendations about young people in care moving towards independence. Well done 🅱🅴🅲🅺🆈 🆆🅰🆁🅳 Centre for Homelessness Research and Practice

Join us this afternoon at the HCOP networking meeting/webinar on Staff Well-being and Complexity of Homelessness. Come and hear from Loretta, peer mentor; @nick_maguire5, professor in clinical psychology, and Elizabeth Scott, clinical psychology trainee. eventbrite.co.uk/e/934450636007…

Thanks to Etienne Girardet for making this photo available on Unsplash 🎁 unsplash.com/photos/a-group…

We are a «what will happen next? »country. Every #emergency reverts our brain& body into shutdown mode in attempt to find safety. With a chronic hyperactivation of our nervoussystem,we resume functioning the next day,but don’t let this #traumaresponse fool you to think we are ok