Resettlement Training

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Resettlement Training

Resettlement training courses and workshops are offered to people who are or have experienced homelessness, to assist them with the emotional and practical process of moving out of homelessness and maintaining independent living. The courses last for two to three days and focus on issues such as budgeting, coping with isolation, and accessing support to gain and sustain a tenancy.
‘The thing for me was finding something new to do. Before if I went into a course or something like that and I didn’t like it I saw it as a kind of failure, but I’ve changed that now, through the experiences I’ve had now, if I try it and I don’t like it, that’s fine. It’s something else under my belt, I’ll go and do something else. I’m not scared to try something new.. I’m still nervous like, but everyone is like that.’

We also operate a very successful Peer Education Programme, whereby workshops and ‘taster’ sessions are delivered in hostels and accommodation units by trained volunteers – ‘peer educators’ - who have already attended the courses. The workshops raise awareness about the advice and support that is available to people experiencing homelessness and may lead to people accessing the resettlement courses. Having been through the experience themselves, the peer educators can more successfully engage with other individuals in the same situation, sharing both good and bad experiences. The work of the Peer Education Programme is now funded by the City Council’s Homelessness Partnership.

'It's been a privilege and a pleasure to talk to people of our own obstacles and problems that we encountered when we were homeless. Participants told me our presentation really made a difference to them.'