Homeless and Inclusion Health meeting
19 September 2024
The Homeless and Inclusion Health Network meetings are an opportunity for people working within the sector to come together monthly to connect and give service updates on what’s happening around the country.
It is a place to share good practice, challenges, ideas for innovation, discuss the latest policy updates, hear/give presentations etc. and get advice and support from others. Anyone working with the homeless population, clients in temporary accommodation, asylum seekers, refugees, and the GRTBS (gypsy, roma, traveller, boater, and showman) communities is welcome to join.
Next online meeting
Themes: Research into Homeless and Inclusion Health; Suicide prevention; Therapy
- Thursday 19 September 2024, 3 – 4.30 pm. Book your free place.
Speakers
- Dr Gary Colman and Finbar Macdonald-Westall from Game Therapy, will be speaking about the work they do with the homeless population. They will touch on trends, insights around the mental health needs in this community, and some of the outcomes from game therapy.
- Eva Bell is a participation officer at the Samaritans. Eva will be presenting on her work, which involves exploring suicide prevention support for people with no fixed address.
- We will also hear from a group of researchers at Bolton University and Bolton NHS Foundation Trust, who work in the Homeless and Vulnerable Adults team. The group will be presenting the findings from their research on health inclusion and health equity.
Further meetings
- Thursday 17 October 2024, 3pm – 4.30pm – book here.
Speakers
- Kendra Schneller will be talking about her innovative gardening project in healthcare. Kendra will share valuable insights into how nature can be practically applied to enhance health and well-being.
- We will also hear from George Plumptre who is the Chief Executive of The National Garden Scheme. The scheme gives visitors access to over 3,500 private gardens in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and the Channel Islands. The NGS funds this network, and raises impressive amounts of money for nursing and health charities.
- Liz Grogan, Deputy Director of Infection prevention Control, will also be joining us at this meeting to speak about sepsis.
Please join the QNI’s Homeless and Inclusion Health network to receive network updates and invitations to the meetings.
If you have any questions, please email us at hih@qni.org.uk.
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