Housing & Homelessness
About our Housing & Homelessness training and facilitations
Carrie is a dedicated and empathetic professional committed to making a meaningful impact in the realm of housing and homelessness programs. With a unique perspective rooted in personal experience, [Your Name] not only brings professional expertise but also a deep understanding of the challenges faced by individuals on the path to finding stable housing.
Having overcome personal obstacles related to housing and homelessness, Carrie is not just a trainer but a living testament to resilience and transformation. This lived experience serves as a powerful foundation for their training approach, making it inherently person-centered and attuned to the real needs of those facing housing insecurity.
With a background in Human Sciences, Brain Development and Person Centered Thinking, Carrie leverages their professional knowledge to deliver comprehensive training programs that address the multifaceted issues surrounding homelessness and housing instability. This training covers, Trauma informed care, assertive engagement, discerning roles and responsibilities, case conferencing, home visits, service plans and more. Carrie covers a spectrum of topics designed to empower people in this field with the tools to do their work well.
What sets Carrie apart is their commitment to a person-centered approach. Recognizing the dignity and individuality of each person affected by housing challenges, Carrie places the person at the center of their training philosophy. Through interactive workshops, collaborative problem solving, and a focus on holistic well-being, Carrie ensures that their training goes beyond the technical aspect, fostering a compassionate and understanding approach to housing issues.
Beyond being a skilled trainer, Carrie is an advocate for the fundamental right to stable housing. Their journey from homelessness to professional success serves as an inspiration, providing that with the right support, positive change is not only possible but achievable for everyone.
Training
Person Centered Intensive Case Management
Person Centered Intensive Case Management is designed for front line case managers who are supporting participants in a Homelessness Serving System or program. It can be tailored for Housing First Programs, Permanent Supportive Housing Programs, or other Homelessness Serving Systems
Person Centered Trauma Informed Care
Trauma can come in many forms, and the experience and perspective shape the way a person feels, thinks and behaves. Understanding the types of trauma and having a person-centred perspective when supporting people change the dynamic in the work we do work. When we change our perspective of people and see them as people who have been hurt by traumatic events is not only impactful, it’s pivotal.
Stress and Support Team Building
Stress is powerful and impossible to deal with unless you understand it. We need to set our teams up for success by giving them the tools to learn how to recognize and manage stress positively and productively. When you allow employees to work through situations together to understand one another’s stress, they can take control and learn how to support one another.
CASE NOTES AND DOCUMENTATION
This training is geared toward front-line staff and Team Leads/Program Leaders. Learn how strong, well-written case notes drive evidence-based practices and are vital to the work at hand. Includes, do’s, don’ts, ethical and legal responsibilities. In the second part of this training, leaders will learn an efficient and effective way of reviewing case notes for feedback and to drive outcomes.
Peer support and peer engagement
Peer Support is powerful! Peer support is rapidly becoming one of the most valued, accepted and effective approaches to assisting people who experience mental health, physical health, and addiction issues. It is unique because it fosters values including self-determination and equality, mutuality, recovery, and hope. This interactive training supports teams in effectively understanding the importance of having someone with lived experience on their teams, and how to fully integrate them as a part of the interdisciplinary team.
Team Lead training for homelessness
This interactive and energetic training will provide team leads, program managers and supervisors with tools, resources and insights related to their role, and ensure fidelity to their contract and model. Participants will gain valuable insights on how to effectively lead and support their staff, to retain strong working relationships and better outcomes for the people being supported.
Facilitation
Defining Roles and Responsibilities
Decerning roles and responsibilities of each position on a team. Defining core responsibilities, decision making, choice and self-determination, and boundaries. Interesting thing is that people often don’t find out the boundaries until they have crossed them and it becomes a problem. Be proactive and work through these things before they become an issue. We work through each position and discuss how they work together, where they may overlap and what challenges we may encounter.
Community Consultations and Focus Groups
Engaging community members is a critical foundation for a successful consultation. Giving space for dialogue about what things look like in the future within the context of a community-led vision.
Conflict Resolution
This facilitation is an interactive way how to explore issues, work through human values and emotions, overcome constraints, problem analysis and conflict transformation. Sensitivity and respect are present at all levels with each person feeling heard to work towards positive solutions.
One Page Profiles
A one-page profile is a powerful and effective page of information about a person which enables people to showcase what is important to them and how best to support them which leads to positive change. It is succinct and very useful in many situations from understanding each other, supporting people, families and children at home, work school, sporting teams, end of life planning and other important areas in a person's life. They provide us with an at-a-glance way of knowing what matters to people, that can be transferable to any circumstance.
Team Building and Collaboration
Not every team knows how to make the most out of their dynamic and thats what we're here for. In this facilitation your team will not only be engaged in exercises and discussions but will also be left with actionable tools to continue building your team even after we're gone.
SWOT
This facilitation can propel you and your team to gather important information used for strategic planning. It allows us to help an organization identify its internal strengths and weaknesses, as well as its external opportunities and threats.