Breaking the cycle of women’s homelessness

This week we are proud to be launching our brand new strategy to break the cycle of homelessness for women. 

For many years Action Homeless has supported women experiencing homelessness, offering a range of projects and services which have enabled women to find and keep a secure home. During that time, the number of women seeking help with homelessness has steadily risen and women now make up approximately 20% of our overall client group in an average year.

Our new strategy, which has been created based on the insight and expertise of women with personal experience of homelessness, recognises that women very often experience homelessness differently to men and seeks to develop and embed services delivered via a gendered lens which meet the needs of women so that they are able to break the cycle of homelessness.

Central to the successful delivery of the strategy will be developing our own workforce’s knowledge and understanding of women’s homelessness and cultivating partnerships which can help to prevent and respond to women without a safe home. This work will begin straight away with internal briefings for staff teams taking place this week and a special Supporting Women Together event on Tuesday 24th September to launch a new safer sex working partnership project.

You can download our Women’s Strategy here.

If you are part of an organisation which supports women who face multiple disadvantage in Leicester, please do get in touch with Eilidh Stringer (eilidhstringer@actionhomeless.org.uk) as we would love to hear from you and to explore opportunities to work in partnership.