Finding the Way Home People who were homeless were offered a small ‘thank-you’ Three issues were encountered here, first the evidence base on shopping voucher worth €5 for participation. such services is relatively limited5 and second, working examples of such services in Ireland were unusual. Third, and The research was broadly successful in terms of recruitment of most importantly, housing-led service approaches, which were participants and the range of issues that it was able to cover. the main concern of this research, are not at present However, some caveats should be noted. First, while people characterised by delivery of services to promote collective with a wide ranging experience of homelessness, including a participation or the provision or arrangement of education, substantial group of people with sustained experience of training and employment. As the main concern of the research homelessness and high needs, were interviewed, the numbers was exploring the use of the housing-led approach in Ireland, achieved were slightly lower than originally planned. In the primary focus was on what these services did in practice addition, within the time frame available for the research, not and what lessons there might be for Ireland in how they all the service providers who were invited to participate in the worked. consultation were able to respond and some service providers also chose not to respond. Finally, the research had originally been designed to consider evidence around the services that promoted participative representation of people who were homeless and also to look at provision of educational, training and employment services. 5 For a discussion of the existing evidence base see: Jones, A. and Pleace, N. (2010) A Review of Single Homelessness in the UK 2000-2010 London: Crisis. http://www.crisis.org.uk/data/files/publications/ReviewOfSingleHomelessness_Final.pdf 7
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