Skip to main content

Rough Sleeping Initiative Regional Training Programme 2024-25

The West Midlands Combined Authority Rough Sleeping Initiative seeks to add value and complementary outcomes to the work of our Local Authority and wider partners.

To build upon the good work established in recent years, we are pleased to share details about our new regional training programme via this webpage.

This exciting training offer has been developed for staff, volunteers and trustees working across three key service areas:

  • Preventing rough sleeping
  • Supporting people on the street
  • Move on and recovery service

A wide range of training courses will be taking place between April 2024 and March 2025 as below. The training courses are open to anyone working within the WMCA area.

When booking onto a training course, please make sure that you have your line managers approval and that you block the course time as protected time in your calendar.

We hold substantial waiting lists for each course and non-attendance or participants cancelling their attendance at short notice, is not only inconvenient and costly, but prevents others from utilising that space. If you need to cancel your space on the training, this should be done in writing to the Homelessness inbox homelessness@wmca.org.uk at least 2 working days before the date of training in order to give us an opportunity to fill the vacant space.

For those who do not provide enough notice, a valid reason for non-attendance or simply do not attend, this will affect your ability to attend additional WMCA RSI regional training courses that you may be signed up to and any future courses that you might want to attend.

April: COMPLETED

  • Safeguarding adults at risk

May: COMPLETED

  • Conflict Management: violent and aggressive behaviour
  • Trauma-informed: Theory and Principles
  • Asylum Accommodation Eviction & Refugee Homelessness
  • Mental health and homelessness

June: COMPLETED

  • Benefits for non-benefit advisers
  • Practical support for non-UK nationals with restricted eligibility
  • Homelessness law, practice and the Homelessness Reduction Act

September: COMPLETED

  • Domestic Abuse: Staying Put or Accessing Refuge – What Are the Options?
  • Modern Slavery Awareness

October: COMPLETED

  • Stress, Vicarious Trauma and Managing Wellbeing
  • Complex Needs, Dual Diagnosis and Personality Disorder
  • Strengths-Based Practice: An Introduction

November:

  • Drug and Alcohol Awareness
  • Impact: Understanding and Quantifying Your Social Value
  • Homelessness Law, Practice and the Homelessness Reduction Act

December

January

February

March

Each training course is designed to be accessible for individuals working with those experiencing or at risk of rough sleeping. Information for each course can be found by clicking on the link to the associated course.

All courses will be delivered online and free of charge with further details and links provided on registration. Availability is on a first come first served basis with up to 3 people from one organisation being able to register for each course. If the course is fully booked and you want to be added to the waiting list or if you do have any questions regarding any aspect of the training programme, please contact homelessness@wmca.org.uk