Next steps
This overview provides a baseline for you to now work through the practical, next steps of the C2C Toolkit. You can now begin to identify the gaps, opportunities and actions that you will endeavour to take to prevent and relieve homelessness at the earliest opportunity within your sector, organisation, team or department. Thus contributing to the overall ambition of Designing out Homelessness.
The following toolkit will take you through a roundtable exercise, detailing example questions to consider, alongside a set of example actions and pledges that you can use as a starting point for your discussions. The toolkit also contains blank templates for you to use to record your progress as well as a set of slides to help you facilitate your session.
A roundtable is an excellent approach to use to consider your activity regarding the prevention and relief of homelessness if the participants have a good knowledge of the issues surrounding homelessness.
If you feel you would rather explore your organisation’s role in relation to the prevention and relief of homelessness via a case study, then a further toolkit aimed at this approach is available to download via www.wmca.org.uk
Using the case study toolkit can be a particularly useful approach when the participants do not have first-hand experience of homelessness, working with clients effected by homelessness or their organisation is not directly involved with homelessness, as it can help participants appreciate the issues surrounding homelessness in a real life context.
Should you have any questions on how to use this toolkit, please contact homelessness@wmca.org.uk.
