Mental Health, Substance Use & Homelessness
This module is part of digital training package on homeless and inclusion health. It will take around 1:40 to complete, with an additional 1:15 of optional case studies, plus reflection time. Using presentations from leading experts, this module provides you with an overview of the impact and interrelationships between mental health, substance use and homelessness. This module is designed for:
- Practitioners
- Clinicians
- Policy-makers
- Commissioners
- Service providers
- Campaigners and people with lived experience of exclusions
The sessions cover the challenge of complex needs and mental health and how we can support people living with these problems, and how interrelationships between housing, mental health and trauma informed care can be beneficial. After completing this module you should:
- Have a deeper understanding of what mental health brings to tackling homelessness, exclusion and social justice
- Understand the wider context of public and government policy in making a case for challenging social exclusion
- Understand the reasons for, and consequences of, decision making in people living with homelessness and mental health problems
- Know more about trauma, trauma recovery and trauma informed care and the current evidence basis for this
Additional units to supplement this learning are listed in the side bar
Mental health and Homelessness in Toxic Times
Lynne Friedli – Mental health and homelessness in toxic times
Health, Fairness, Protection, Autonomy
Professor Dame Sue Bailey DBE FRCPsych – Health, Fairness, Protection, Autonomy
Mental Health and Substance Misuse
Dr Simon Wharne, Jo Prestige and Caroline Hattersley from Providence Row discussing how Trauma Informed Care is key to their work with people dealing with the effects of complex disadvantage.
Dr Simon Wharne, Jo Prestige and Caroline Hattersley – Seminar 1: Mental Health & Substance Misuse
Case Studies
Robin Johnson – Housing first, Psychologically Informed Environments and Trauma Informed Care
The information in this e-learning resource has been collated by The Faculty for Homeless and Inclusion Health to support learning, collaboration and good practice. This has been sponsored by Public Health England as part of its commitment to sharing evidence and promoting the development of effective local leadership and good practice.
