1. Creating Choice & Tackling Multiple Exclusion Homelessness Ann Forsyth Homelessness & Asylum Service Manager Hunter Street Ann.Forsyth@ggc.scot.nhs.uk

2. Aims To create a space to consider choice and to question our practice / our behaviour by; 1.Considering how creative we are in the services we provide and in the way we provide them to promoting choice. 2.Considering the implications in the choices we are offered and the choices we offer others. 3.Considering how individually and as organisations we can work in a choice based way.

3. Creating, Create 1.to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes. 2.to evolve from one's own thought or imagination, as a work of art or an invention. 3.to cause to happen; bring about; arrange, as by intention or design: Dictionary.com

4. Choice 1.Choice involves mentally making a decision; judging the merits of multiple options and selecting one or more of them. One can make a choice between imagined options (‘what would I do if...?’) or between real options. 2.It involves preference. 3.If arrival at a choice included more complex motivators, cognition, instinct and feeling can become intertwined Wikipedia

5. Simple Choice

6. Complex Choice

7. Considerations in creating choice PowerInformation Risk Aspirations Empowerment Person centered PriorityDecision making Ability Capacity Options

8. Round Table Discussion If to create choice we have to do something unique as it won’t just happen. What steps can you take 1.As an Individual 2.As an organisation to give choice now and in the long term to service users?