Housing First Training
Housing First Training
The Housing First Europe Hub can help organisations, governments, housing providers, and professionals, to organize information sessions and training for a wide range of audiences. We can provide introductory level programmes as well as specialist training on specific topics.
Please contact Samara Jones (samara.jones@housingfirsteurope.eu) for more information.
Train-the-Trainer (TTT)
Now entering its fourth year, each course brings together approximately 30 trainers from a number of European countries and beyond for three training sessions in different European cities over the course of a year. The curriculum is based on the Housing First Europe Guide (which is now available in English, French, German, Swedish, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, and Czech).
The trainers use the 8 core principles of Housing First as a foundation for the course, and are now developing their own training courses on topics which cover topics in the following areas:
– What is Housing First
– Delivering Housing First
– Managing Housing First
The current course will run in late 2022. Please note that each Cohort is limited to 30 participants. Participants from Hub partner organisations are offered first preference on course places.
TTT Course Dates 2023 (Cohort 5)
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Session 2: 13-15 June 2023 (3 full days of training)
Location: Torino (Turin), Italy
Session 3: 13-17 November 2023 (4 full days of training; 1 day break for visits and rest)
Location: Budapest, Hungary
For more information, please read our Call for Applications 2023
**Please note: attendance at all three sessions of the course is required to receive certification from the Hub.***
TTT: Housing First for Youth
Date: 13th – 15th March, 2023.
Location: Lyon
Trainers’ Directory
Trainers who have completed the Housing First Europe Hub’s Train-the-Trainer programme are eligible to join our Housing First Training Faculty. Our expert trainers are leaders in their field and work in organisations, governments, and educational institutions across Europe. Click on the photos below to learn more about each of our certified trainers, or use the filter menu above to find the latest list of trainers available to provide training on Housing First in your local area.
Name: Geert De Bolle
Housing First Lab
Country: Belgium
Languages: DutchEnglish“For me, Housing First is about dignity. By offering people back a home that is really theirs, you give them so much more: freedom and autonomy, life chances, future,…
Name: Juha Kahila
Y-Säätiö/Y-Foundation
Country: Finland
Languages: EnglishFinnishJuha has been working for 10 years in the field of homelessness. He started as a frontline support worker in 2010 for the Finnish Youth housing association services (NALPA)….
Name: Melanie Schmit
LIMOR & Housing First Netherlands
Country: Netherlands
Languages: DutchEnglishMelanie Schmit’s entire working life has been about people in need, among which the biggest part has been in the field of homelessness. She studied social work, then completed…
Name: Mia Saarela
Y-Säätiö
Country: Finland
Languages: EnglishFinnishMia is Coordinator for the National Housing First Development Network in Finland. She is passionate about eradicating homelessness and developing new ways of approaching housing-related issues. Mia has a…
Name: Thomas Lambrechts
Capuche asbl
Country: Belgium
Languages: FrenchDevelopment of associative project for more than 20 years. I have worked in the fields of culture, politics, sport/leisure and real estate. Investing 100% in HF4Y projects since 2021.
Name: Tomáš Novotný
Spolek PORTAVITA
Country: Czech Republic
Languages: CzechI started working in 2006 in a Halfway house Chamomile as a social worker and since the year 2013 an educator in a facility for children requiring immediate help…
Introductory Training Videos
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VIDEO: An Introduction to Housing First (English version)
https://youtu.be/kSP7mLvkUFc Check it out here -
VIDEO: An Introduction to Housing First (French version)
https://youtu.be/sHhtGEiYMpo Check it out here -
VIDEO: An Introduction to Housing First (Dutch version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDYAtCeiltY Check it out here -
VIDEO: An Introduction to Housing First (Spanish version)
https://youtu.be/qf1isHLCuZI Check it out here -
VIDEO: An Introduction to Housing First (Italian version)
https://youtu.be/rTzrgVmdxyQ Check it out here