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🏠 Struggling with affordable housing on a single income is one of the many challenges #SingleParents face. With an increased cost of living and stagnant wages, securing a decent, stable home can often feel like an uphill battle. 💼 Similarly, balancing work and parenting duties can lead to emotional stress and mental health struggles. Despite these hurdles, single parenting comes with its unique joys. It's not about finding immediate solutions, but about creating understanding and offering support. As businesses 🏢 and organizations, we have the capacity to make a significant difference in the lives of single parent families - not just in policy decisions but also in providing support where society often overlooks. 👉Reflect on your company's charity goals or social responsibility. Are you are doing enough to help single parents in your community? CBA is one organization that strives to alleviate these issues by offering solutions for affordable housing and legal guidance in Louisiana.🏡 Following, liking, and sharing this post won't solve these problems overnight, but it will help raise awareness, reach more people and serve as a stepping stone towards a better future. 🗺️ Be a part of this change! Click this link to learn more about how you can support single parents: https://lnkd.in/gvSp_HKx #AffordableHousing #SingleParentsSupport #CommunityBuilders #ShreveportHousing #LouisianaCommunity #HousingForAll #CBAHousing #SupportSingleParents

Are you working in Social Care or Housing, or are you working in mental health charities or NHS? Then you already know that 🌍 Community Care Starts with Empathy 🏠 The Social Value of a small steps approach to tackling hoarding disorder: The small steps approach to hoarding isn’t just about clearing space—it’s about restoring dignity, trust, and connection. By working gradually and compassionately, we help individuals regain control without overwhelming them, fostering long-term change. This approach builds stronger communities, reduces isolation, and breaks the stigma around hoarding. Together, we create a society where empathy and support pave the way for progress. 💙🏠 #HoardingAwareness #SmallStepsMatter #CommunitySupport #socialcare #socialvalues #housing

I am actively working on a case study impact report highlighting the real life impact of the third sector. Throughout this project, I am conducting interviews with participants from Third Sector organisations that have directly experienced the positive effects of the community's mental health and wellbeing fund. Today I had the privilege of interviewing 7 brave individuals who have suffered from either child sexual abuse, sexual violence or rape. Supported by the charity Talk Now, these participants not only welcomed me into their Talk Now family but opened up and shared their stories, their tears and their laughter. I have heard some truly powerful stories while conducting interviews however sitting with 7 amazing people who all commented that the Talk Now workers saved their lives and in one instance supported the participant in pressing charges and seeing his abuser brought to justice really hit me as to how life changing the work our sector does. The Third Sector is vastly under valued, under funded and under supported I truly hope that the case study report VASLan Third Sector Interface are creating goes somewhere in highlighting this. #casestudy #impactreport #thirdsector #mentalhealth #wellbeing #scottishgovernment #funding #keepthebeatalive

142,490 That's the number of children in England who don't have a secure place to call home right now. And it's 19,000 more than this time last year. This is a housing emergency. The effect that homelessness can have on families, and particularly children, is devastating. The overcrowding, noise, social isolation, and stigma that come with living in temporary accommodation can all have severe and long-lasting effects on the mental health of both the children and the adults who are dealing with it. You can read more in the article below, and it's a topic we also explored in this week's blog, which you can read here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eTNkhDPi #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek #HousingEmergency #YouthMentalHealth

Together with Dr Miriam Glennie, I am proud to be releasing this needed work exploring rough sleeping in Tasmania. Thank you to all those who participated directly and the many who provided support and engagement along the way. Our hope is that this report helps spur on a Housing First pilot for Tasmania. It is also the case that due to the broadening of rough sleeping across a range of cohorts and the scale of rough sleeping around the state, a Housing First pilot will be just one relevant response to consider. The expansion of specialist outreach and tenancy support services are key broader responses to focus on alongside Housing First which involves the delivery of housing with wrap-around clinical support for those experiencing chronic rough sleeping. It is also our hope that a Housing First pilot can become one leading edge of cross-agency collaboration on rough sleeping involving the Department of Health, Tasmania. Increased provision of healthcare, in particular mental health care, across the homelessness sector in Tasmania is urgently needed. Our thanks to the University of Tasmania which funded this work through the Homelessness ColLAB: https://lnkd.in/gPM6MAWH

Today is World Homeless Day and World Mental Health Day. Mental health and stable housing are connected in many ways. Insecure housing can negatively impact someone’s mental health. Mental health issues can also be a contributing factor in forcing people into homelessness. Common mental health problems are over twice as high among people who are homeless compared with the general population. At Fat Macy’s, our trainees receive well being support from their P+E Officers, and have access to free counselling and life coaching. Trainees take the lead on what support they need to reach their goal of stable housing, because we believe they are experts in themselves. However, the journey from temporary accommodation to stable housing remains a challenge for our trainees. There needs to be more safe, secure and affordable housing for all. It is crucial that there is further investment in mental health services, in affordable housing and in homeless services. Alongside Homeless Link and other leading homeless charities in the UK, we have written to the Chancellor to safeguard the sector in the Autumn Budget and commit to review spending on homelessness as part of the upcoming Spending Review. Read the letter here: https://lnkd.in/e9sHcpfD. Sources: Homelessness and mental health: Crisis UK (no date) Crisis. Available at: https://lnkd.in/gJFe9nip. Leng, G. (2017) The Impact of Homelessness on Health: A Guide for Local Authorities. rep. Local Government Association. #worldmentalhealthday #worldhomelessday #mentalhealth #homelessness

According to the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics data, 1 in every 200 Queenslanders is experiencing homelessness. This includes people who are sleeping rough, as well as those who do not have access to stable and standard accommodation. The reasons for homelessness are varied and complex, ranging from mental illness, family and domestic violence, relationship breakdowns to debt, and housing affordability. It is Homelessness Week (5 August to 11 August 2024) – so it's the perfect time to look at these three small actions you can take to help reduce homelessness: 🤝 Support Local Shelters: Donate money, food, clothing, or your time to local shelters and support services. 💬 Educate Yourself and Others: Learn about the causes of homelessness and share this knowledge to reduce stigma. ❤️🩹 Support Mental Health Services: Advocate for and support mental health services that provide essential care and assistance.

We know what happens when people are pushed to breaking point, but what will happen if the services that keep them safe and well are too? VCSE mental health services support over 8 million people. Without these vital services, the impact on our communities would be devastating. People would face longer waits for mental health support, putting them at risk of reaching crisis point. An already overstretched NHS would bear the brunt, with more people relying on emergency care. Instead of receiving the community support they need, people may be admitted to acute settings, potentially for longer periods. Please share this and join us in urging the government to make mental health charities exempt from recent Budget changes that threaten their longevity. #TheFinalStraw #MentalHealth #VCSE #Support

Happening soon: Join this May 7th webinar to hear from experts and practitioners in Canada and the United Kingdom to help manage hoarding among Housing First clients. This webinar is the sixth in the International Housing First Webinar Series and is presented by EENet, the Canadian Housing First Network and the Housing First Europe Hub. The following topics will be covered: -- Understanding hoarding disorder from a mental health and housing perspective. This presentation will include topics such as reducing stigma, raising awareness, team engagement approaches, and the supportive housing approach to hoarding applied by Services and Housing in the Province (SHIP) in Ontario, Canada. Presenter: Jennifer Brock -- Understanding the relationship between homelessness and hoarding, how homelessness contributes to and/or is expressed in hoarding behaviours; treating hoarding as a multi-level problem requiring various strategies and approaches. The presentation will review the types of intervention strategies adopted and the outcomes of a one-year hoarding pilot as evaluated by the University of Ottawa. Presenters: Chioma Obiakor and Gregory Saxe -- A collaborative approach that the UK agency—P3 Charity—has with other agencies to provide support for high-end hoarding that aims to create a lasting difference. This presentation will explain how this service operates, the approach to receiving referrals, the restorative work with people for up to, and sometimes over, one year, and how the team provides a holistic approach to match individual needs. This presentation will describe some real-world cases. Presenter: Fraser MacKinnon Register: https://lnkd.in/gJWgv6Qs #RighttoHousing