• Tomáš Novotný - Tomáš Novotný

    Tomáš Novotný

    Spolek PORTAVITA

    Country: Czech Republic
    Languages: Czech

    I 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 in the same organization Chamomile. I did these two jobs at the same time until 2017. After that I started working as a social worker in an Asylum for families with children Hannah, where I worked for 3 years. In 2020, I started as a key social worker in the PORTAVITA Housing First for adults project, where I still work today. Supported persons are mainly single mothers with children, but also complete families. The second project Housing First for Adults is already running at the moment.

  • Upskilling professionals to help end homelessness: introducing the new Housing First diploma in the Netherlands

    In January 2023, we launched the first cohort of a new Housing First diploma course for professionals, based at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. The diploma offers an intensive,...

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  • Linkedafb - Skippen Dam

    Peter-Jan Heylenbosch

    Goodmen services - Freelancer

    Country: Belgium
    Languages: DutchEnglish

    Since the beginning of my career as a social worker I loved working with people suffering homelesness. I started working in day shelter for homless people during my studies in 2010 untill 2013 combined with working in the crisis shelter and night shelter in the city of Ghent. In 2013 I started my job as a Housing First support worker for the public welfare of Ghent, this project was part of the belgian Housing First project, funded by the belgian governement. When this project and research came to an end in 2016, I was asked by SAM VZW to assist in the flemish housing first training to provide insights from my daily practice. My interest in Housing first kept growing and I decided to follow the housing first train-the-trainer course, organised by the Housing First Europe hub. A bit later followed by the Outreach! course, organized by SAM Vzw Belgium. At the moment I still work as a Housing first support worker for the city of Ghent and I provide the Housing First and Outreach! courses for the flemish region and the Outreach! course as a freelance trainer commissioned by SAM vzw Belgium.

  • Housing First Quality Recommendations – Finland

    These quality recommendations were constructed by the Networking for Development Project in Finland. The aim is to highlight proven and successful ways of working in accordance with the Housing...

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  • Chronically Homeless People in Poland: Target Group of the ‘Housing First – Evidence based Advocacy’ Project

    This paper by Julia Wygnańska introduces the methodology and results of three studies conducted under the ‘Housing First – Evidence based Advocacy’ project implemented between 2014 and 2016 in Poland...

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  • Lessons from Finland: helping homeless people starts with giving them homes

    Juha Kaakinen, the chief executive of the Y-Foundation, wrote an article on The Guardian. Read it here

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  • The Governance of Inclusive Growth – An Overview of Country Initiatives

    Achieving inclusive growth relates closely to how governments work and how policies are designed, implemented, delivered and evaluated. This publication presents an overview of country initiatives concerning inclusive growth...

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