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Project Summary
LGBT Foundation
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Researching LGBT experiences of severe and multiple disadvantage.
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Project Summary
Agenda
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A cross-sector alliance working to change the way services respond to women and girls who have experienced extensive abuse and multiple disadvantage.
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A national service for representing people living with severe and multiple disadvantage
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Expert Link is turning the idea of citizen involvement on its head. We are working with those who are or who have been severely and multiply disadvantaged in society (living with a combination of homelessness, drug or alcohol misuse, domestic...
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Blog Post
Behaving like a system – keeping the conversation going
Read moreFollowing on from Collaborate's report on the preconditions of place-based systems change, Clare Wightman, Director of Grapevine has written her reflections on how values drive system change. Grapevine and Coventry Law Centre have formed...
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Agenda launches with ‘Hidden Hurt’ report
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'Hidden Hurt', a new report launched today by Agenda - the alliance for women and girls at risk – states that about one in every 20 women in England has experienced extensive physical and sexual violence and abuse across their life course,...
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Commencing Countdown, Engines On (new partnerships taking off in 2016)
Read moreNew partners join the pioneering Promoting Change Movement in 2016, helping us all understand how effective support can reach those who are most marginalised, experiencing severe and multiple disadvantage.
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Tackling poverty needs whole-system approaches
Read moreWe are working with The Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) to see how economic regeneration and growth can include a focus on people facing severe and multiple disadvantage. Commonly, local economic growth approaches are divorced from...
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Reflections on ‘Understanding the whole person: Part One’
Read moreCathy Stancer, Director of Equalities and Rights, puts forward four reflections (or questions) inspired by the Revolving Doors/Lankelly Chase literature review What are the common concepts for recovery and desistance across the fields of mental...
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Understanding the whole person: Part One
Read morePeople recovering from drug and alcohol addiction, mental illness and leaving behind a life of crime all share a need for a positive self-image as a key step in their recovery, according to a new report. The report, which examines existing...
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Publication
Behaving Like a System
Read moreCollaborate launched a new report “Behaving Like a System?“ on the preconditions for place-based systems change. Funded by the Lankelly Chase, this piece of work set out to explore the preconditions for systems change in a place. It...