1. Maria Aldanas Project Officer Feantsa
Housing First Guide Europe Workshop 9. Getting started: tools for workers and policymakers
Maria Aldanas
Project Officer Feantsa

2. Housing First Guide Europe
Highly effective model in addressing homelessness
Guide to Provide necessary information to implement, staff and operate a Housing Programme
Useful Guide to large and small Housing First programmes

3. Who’s the Guide for?
People who want to know more about what Housing First means and how it works in Europe
Practitioners and local policy makers who are implementing, or interested in developing, Housing First
Managers and frontline staff of homeless services
It can also be relevant for:
People working in related sectors such as health and housing;
national and local policy-makers;
researchers;
people with experience of homelessness and other stakeholders.

4. Housing First Guide: 6 Units
What is Housing First?
Core principles of Housing First
Delivering support in Housing First
Delivering housing in Housing First
Evaluating Housing First
Housing First and Wider Strategy
1) Description what housing first is and how it works, history of Housing first and evidence that hf works in different areas
2) Summarizes the core principles of Housing First, Housing First can exist in several forms.
3) Shows how support in provided in HF. Enabling choice (personalisation), providing intensive open-ended support following harm reduction and separating housing from support (unconditional housing) are the main features of Housing First
4) Explores he different ways in which housing can be provided
5) This units covers outcome measurement but also process evaluation and fidelity testing
6) Looks at the role of Housing first in the wider homeless strategy, meaning how can HF can work alongside other homeless services

5. How to Use the Guide READ // WATCH // TEST
Each unit tries to answer a number of key questions through different types of resources and activities.
Read: a chapter of the Guide
6 chapters, one for very unit (written by Nicholas Pleace based on the comments of the Advisory Board)
You can watch videos, presentations and other materials
We have also have been filming in 6 different cities in Europe
One introductory video, one or several clips in every unit, other materials
Country fact sheets
Larger strategies
individual project fiches
One test for every unit

6. Key questions
Each unit tries to answer a number of key questions through different types of resources and activities.
Read: a chapter of the Guide
6 chapters, one for very unit (written by Nicholas Pleace based on the comments of the Advisory Board and the Feantsa Office)
Watch videos, presentations and other materials
We have also have been filming in 6 different cities in Europe (Changing Lives and Turning Point Scotland)
One introductory video, one or two clips in every unit, other materials like individual project fiches
One test for every unit

7. Activities

8. Examples –Country Fact Sheets

9. Other resources

10. Housing First Europe Hub
Co-funded by Y-Foundation in Finland
Partner organisations and foundations from:
UK, Norway, The Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Sweden and France
Focus on Practice and Training, Research and Policy
Specific learning tools based on the Guide
Official launch in Summer/Fall 2016

11. Thanks for your interest Any questions?
Maria Aldanas
Project Officer