1. Tasmin Maitland, Head of Innovation and Good Practice, Homeless Link
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2. Learning from Reboot 2016-17 Homelessness and Mental Health
Flexible delivery
Digital as part of everyday support
Community Connectors
Partnership approach
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3. Learning from Reboot
Participants more confident, in control and ambitious about the future
84% reported improved wellbeing
More open to further learning
Positive wider benefits: confidence in managing benefit claims, work readiness, job progression
Specialist services able to embed digital in support
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4. What worked?
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5. “Your confidence grows and as you get comfortable in terms of doing things for yourself. Then you realise that it’s not actually that hard, it’s something you can learn.
I think it’s really helped me in terms of confidence, me doing it for myself”

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7. What needs to change?
“We have always supported our service users in finding work, but we have been guilty of rushing through things, often doing the work for them, rather than supporting them to learn how to do it for themselves”
Wintercomfort day centre, Cambridge
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8. Reboot 2018-19 partners Evolve Connection at St Martin’s St Mungo’s
Elim Connect Centre
Inspiring Change Manchester
Seaview Project
CoLab Exeter
Foxton Centre
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9. Embedding digital support
Start with the person – what interests them?
Not another IT class
Don’t call it digital!
Be social
Be creative
Learning by stealth
Peers supporting peers
Staff are learners too
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