CONTENTS:

Sharing Experiences: News from Health Professionals across the EU:

  • Peers Work in Health and Homelessness: Examples of Innovative Practice, by Kit McKinley and Josie
    Mavromatis
  • Can Street Nurses bring change in homeless people in Brussels?, by Céline Riat
  • Awareness, access and use of health care services in the homeless population of Athens, by Katerina Gourgourini and Elisabeth Ioannidi-Kapolou
  • Progretto Diogene: Integrated approach to homelessness and mental illness in Milan, by Vita Casavola and Emanuela Iacono

Resources:

  • Guide on violence against women with substance abuse by Maria Boustedt Hedwall
  • New European Portal for Action on Health Inequalities, by Yoline Knipers
  • Mental Health and Addiction amongst the homeless population in the Paris region – conference report
  • Homelessness, Mental Health and Well-being – a guide
  • Battered, broken and bereft – a new rough sleeping report
  • Voices of Experience – how people who drink on the street can make positive changes in their lives – report and academic study
  • Moving Forward – Health and Homelessness in Scotland – conference report
  • Homelessness: a silent killer – research briefing on mortality amongst homeless people
  • Environmental burden of diseases associated with inadequate housing – WHO report
  • Call for proposals – European Commission co-financing projects