Friday, November 7, 2025

13:30 - 16:30

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This post conference workshop will introduce the key principles and practices of the ecological and collaborative community integration intervention for Housing First teams. We will discuss how the core values of empowerment and community integration can be translated into everyday practice and inform individualized recovery plans across multiple domains. Based on these principles, Housing First teams focus on creating opportunities and developing resources for people to participate in all areas of community life, in the same way as other citizens. Access to employment, education, recreation, social involvement, civic engagement, or to other resources and activities that are available in the community for all citizens are fundamental to improving participants’ living conditions, wellbeing, and sense of belonging. In addition, we will describe the potential role and activities of peer providers within Housing First teams. Examples of the Housing First programs led by AEIPS (Portugal) and Towarzystwo Pomocy im. św. Brata Alberta (Poland), will be shared and discussed with the audience. Practical exercises and small group discussions will be held in this session. There will be ample time for questions and to address the concerns that practitioners have on implementing this ecological intervention.

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