PIE4shelters - Making Shelters Psychologically- and Trauma-Informed (2018-2019)
PIE4shelters aims at improving the capacity of homeless services to support homeless women with experience of violence
The PIE4shelters project aimed at improving the capacity of homeless services to support women with the experience of homelessness and gender-based violence. The project developed training guideline for homeless services, based on the PIE approach. PIE stands for Psychologically Informed Environments.Psychologically-informed services take into account the psychological makeup – the thinking, emotions, personalities and past experience - of service users in the way a service operates (definition PIE link). The PIE4shelters project will also promote a trauma-informed and gender-sensitive way of working.
The main activities and outputs of the project:
- Develop a PIE training framework, target group are homeless services.
- Train frontline and management staff working with homeless services in the partner countries HU, BE, IE, IT, UK
- Organize national awareness raising events on PIE in partner countries, target group are homeless services
PIE4shelters started on the 1st of January 2018 and ran for 2 years. It was co-funded by the Rights, Equality and Citizenship (REC) program of the European Commission. It is implemented by a consortium comprising homeless and gender-based violence services: BMSZKI- Budapest Methodological Centre of Social Policy (coordinator, HU), CVFE - Collectif contre les Violences Familiales et l’Exclusion (Belgium), FEANTSA (Belgium/EU), Safe Ireland (Ireland), fio.PSD (Italy) and DePaul (UK).
You find more information about PIE4shelters in Italian here.
This website was funded by the European Union's Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme (2014-2020). The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of the PIE4shelters project partners and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Commission.
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