Hidden Identities, Hidden Needs: Building Trust with Criminalised and Stigmatised Communities
Hidden Identities, Hidden Needs: Building Trust with Criminalised and Stigmatised Communities
Drawing on the National Ugly Mugs' Racial Justice Project and Basis Yorkshire’s frontline experience, this webinar from the Frontline Network Annual Conference 2026 explored how the homelessness sector engaged with criminalised and highly stigmatised communities, including sex workers, racialised and migrant communities, and people who used substances.
The session examined how people experiencing survival sex work, homelessness, substance use, migration precarity and interpersonal violence often did not disclose these experiences because of stigma, criminalisation or previous harm from services.
Speakers: Musta Mhende, Racial Justice Practitioner, National Ugly Mugs; Rosie Hodson, SWISVA Learning and Policy Influencing Lead, National Ugly Mugs.
Watch the seminar below: