At this webinar

Two hundred and twenty-five participants joined an HSCWRU webinar today to discuss ‘The capacity to act ... opening the door for people with hidden disabilities and differences’. Senior Social Worker and Safeguarding Lead Ellie Atkins shared the findings of her NHS Research & Development Internship, which explored the relevance of executive functioning assessments to work with people experiencing homelessness or rough sleeping who have complex needs.

The event discussion, questions and reflections from practice included health, social care, probation and homelessness sector perspectives.

A short film (YouTube; 13 mins) summarises Ellie’s presentation. Slides from today are posted below.

PhD student at King's, Carolin Hess, writes about the webinar on the blog: Tracing the significance of executive functioning among people experiencing homelessness.

The next event in this series, convened by Jess Harris within the HSCWRU Homelessness Research Programme, will examine drug and housing interventions for people experiencing homelessness.

See also: A national Peer Network for social workers specialising in homelessness and rough sleeping (set up by Ellie Atkins)