Over 200 people joined us for our annual conference in June, considering what we need to do to get Scotland's transition to #HousingFirst right. So what did people tell us?
Well ... #HousingFirst needs houses and the Scottish Government is critical in making sure our national plans to build more homes are directly informed by #rapidrehousing. And locally, more homes need to be allocated to homeless households, particularly those with multiple needs
And what about delivering #HousingFirst support that meets the core principles? A consideration of local authority commissioning approaches is an important step to ensure support is open-ended, flexible and assets-based.
Health and Social Care Partnerships as joint commissioning partners and the third sector as ambassadors, building local, trauma-informed support from the ground up are also crucial to Scotland's #HousingFirst transition.
Lots of people told us about the importance of developing a whole systems approach to ensure people don't fall between cracks, and this definitely needs Health and Social Care Partnerships who should be #HousingFirst aware at every level - from frontline, to planning.
None of this can happen without brilliant frontline staff who trauma informed, focused on assets and always working to reduce harm. The third sector can lead the way in developing frameworks to ensure staff are fully supported within a trauma informed environment.
