There has been growing recognition in the homelessness sector for the need to develop gender-sensitive support and solutions to end women’s homelessness.

This International Women’s Day, 8th March, from 10:30-12:00 CET, join Rhiannon Barrow, Housing First Team Manager at Solace Women’s Aid (UK), Ania Pérez de Madrid Carreras, Head of Training and Research at AIRES (ES), and Louisa Steele, Housing First and Homelessness Coordinator at Standing Together (UK), to discuss ways to ensure that Housing First services are adapted to meet the specific needs of women experiencing homelessness. The session is chaired by Dr. Saija Turunen, Research Manager at Y-Säätiö/Y-Foundation (FI).

The webinar also provides an opportunity to launch the publication “Housing First & Women: Case studies from across Europe” co-produced by FEANTSA and the Housing First Europe Hub.

If you have any questions or have a good practice to share, please contact Dalma Fabian: dalma.fabian@feantsa.org

Register here: https://forms.gle/Zn7cqP87rtxP1toV7

 

Speakers

Ania Pérez de Madrid Carreras, Head of Training and Research at AIRES

Ania is a social worker who has been working with people who are homeless for more than 15 years. Since 2015, she is the co-founder of AIRES, an organization implementing rights-based responses to homelessness. Since 2018, AIRES has been developing La Morada Housing First for homeless women who survive violence.

Ania is also Head of Training and Research at AIRES. Since 2015, AIRES has trained more than 500 people on the different approaches to end homelessness – from the staircase model to Housing First- and on gender and intersectional approaches to end women’s homelessness.

Since 2018, Ania has been the coordinator of the research “invisible women” and the implementation of RETHOS, two tools to have a better understanding of how homelessness and violence affect women and men differently.

Louisa Steele, Housing First and Homelessness Coordinator at Standing Together 

Louisa Steele has worked across women’s specialist services and the homelessness sector in England for the past twelve years, in both frontline and strategic roles. Louisa has used this cross sector knowledge in her current role as Housing First and Homelessness Project manager at Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse, where she leads on an innovative Housing First partnership for women and works to improve services and systems for survivors of abuse experiencing multiple disadvantage.

 

 

 

 

Saija Turunen, Research Manager at Y-Säätiö/Y-Foundation

Saija Turunen is research manager at Y-Foundation, Finland where she has worked since 2017.  Saija studied and worked in the field of social research in the UK where she founded and ran her own research consultancy as well as taught research methods at the University of Bangor, North Wales after receiving her Ph.D. from there in 2001. Currently Saija co-leads the research work cluster of the Housing First Europe Hub and her research interests include impact assessment, women’s homelessness as well as subjective well-being.