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West Midlands Combined Authority Homelessness Taskforce - seeking to collaborate

West Midlands Combined Authority Homelessness Taskforce - seeking to collaborate

West Midlands Combined Authority Homelessness Taskforce - seeking to collaborate

Wednesday, February 8, 2023

The WMCA Homelessness Taskforce is seeking to collaborate with organisations, networks, and partnerships across the region to think about what actions they can take to help prevent homelessness at the earliest opportunity.

In 2021 you will recall that the WMCA launched the Homelessness Taskforce’s Commitment to Collaborate (C2C) Toolkit

We now have the opportunity to offer up to 20 hours of free support to help organisations, networks or partnerships use our Commitment to Collaborate (C2C) Toolkit to think about what actions they can take to help prevent homelessness at the earliest opportunity. We are interested in hearing from organisations, networks, or partnerships that:

  • Want to enhance the work they and their partners are already doing to prevent and tackle homelessness;
  • Are interested in working with others to design out homelessness but are not sure where to start; or
  • Are keen to contribute to the delivery of shared and joined up ways of supporting citizens so that there are fewer gaps and more bridges between service systems.

You do not have to work in a specialist housing or homelessness organisation to take advantage of this opportunity.

Please have a look at the attached outline for further information and if you are interested in this opportunity then please complete the attached short Expression of Interest form and return by email to Homelessness@wmca.org.uk by 5pm on Friday 3rd March 2023. You are also welcome to have an informal discussion with Andy Meakin who is providing the practical support with the C2C toolkit by emailing andy.meakin71@outlook.com.

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