Shape the Strategy: Get involved in our mission to end homelessness

15.08.2022

Glasgow Alliance to End Homelessness is getting ready to develop our strategy. As we take on commissioned homeless services across Glasgow, this plan will drive our approach, direction and priorities over the next three years. It will be critical to kick-start our city-wide movement for change, but we know we can’t do this in isolation.

We want to hear from people living and working across Glasgow on what they think our new strategy’s priorities should be. Ending homelessness is our collective responsibility, and we want to ensure that our plan is joined-up, innovative and developed in partnership.

We’re open to hearing views and new ideas from anyone with interest in ending homelessness, but in particular:

  • People living and working in Glasgow  
  • People with personal experience of homelessness
  • People working on the frontlines of homelessness services
  • Statutory and third sector services
  • Organisations, services and community groups working across primary and secondary care, health, mental health, addiction, recovery, community justice, emergency services etc

To support this, we’re planning a series of engagement events and activities to capture views. We’re also running an online survey and have engagement packs available to host discussions with your own groups or teams (which will be available shortly).

Glasgow Alliance to End Homelessness is a radical and new approach; it recognises that ‘more of the same won’t do’, and we can try things differently. Getting involved in shaping our new strategy is an opportunity to directly influence the transformation and delivery of homelessness services, and help in ending homelessness in Glasgow.

More information on our series of engagement events and activities can be found below:

Alliance exCHANGE: Shape the Strategy

Do you work for a service, organisation or community group delivering support to people in Glasgow? Or do you have an interest in ending homelessness? Come along to one of our Alliance exCHANGE events to share your views on the strategy.

In-person: Thursday 22 September, 2.00pm – 4.00pm
More info here: https://bit.ly/3duRicu

Online: Tuesday 27 September, 2.00pm – 4.00pm
More info here: https://bit.ly/3QsE6U0

Frontline Forum: Shape the Strategy

If you’re working on the frontline of services supporting people experiencing homelessness, come along to our Frontline Forum session. We want to hear how you think we can support the frontline workforce over the next few years, and where you think we can make an impact on positively transforming services.

Online: Wednesday 28 September, 2.00pm – 4.00pm
More info here: https://bit.ly/3JUV4rK

In-Person: Wednesday 5 October, 10.00am – 12.00pm
More info here: https://bit.ly/3QIirqD

We know not everyone may be available to join an engagement event. Here are some other ways that you can share your views and collaborate with us on this strategy.

Engagement Pack

Are you part of an organisation, group or team? Using our Engagement Pack, you can hold your own Shape the Strategy discussion with your group.

Download our Engagement Pack, presentation template and notetakers sheet and discuss with your team what they think priorities for the strategy should be.

Download Shape the Strategy Engagement Pack
Download Shape the Strategy Presentation Template
Download Shape the Strategy Notetakers Template

Online Survey

An online survey is open to anyone interested in sharing their thoughts on the plan. Take five and complete this short survey to ensure your voice is heard in the Alliance strategy. Visit the survey here: https://bit.ly/3R0MnPi

Survey open until Friday 7 October.

Contact us at hello@glasgowalliance.org if you’ve got any questions about Shape the Strategy.