This session takes place on Tuesday 20 May 2025, from 1pm to 2.30pm
Delivered as a webinar via Teams
This session will be led by Nada Kankova, Social Worker from Street Outreach Team within Framework and will focus on barriers that neurodivergent people face when homeless.
We will talk about rough sleeping, attending council housing services, using Temporary accommodation in hotels and maintaining hostel accommodation. All of these can present specific challenges for neurodivergent individuals.
This session will also provide some advice around what steps workers and services can take to help individuals.
Who can attend?
This session is part of our Understanding Neurodivergence and Multiple Disadvantage learning series.
These sessions will be most relevant to individuals who work with people impacted by trauma, abuse, addiction, homelessness, and/or individuals who experience poor mental health/ have contact with the criminal justice system.
We welcome individuals from a variety of roles, agencies, sectors, who have an interest in this subject.
Presenters:
- Nada Kankova is a Social Worker based in Street Outreach Team working with people experiencing homelessness and multiple and complex disadvantage. While it can be difficult for people rough sleeping to seek diagnosis of neurodivergence many people that she has supported had traits common in neurodivergent individuals. It is her role to support people in finding accommodation, coordinate support from the council and voluntary agencies and most importantly advocate for individuals. So, she can see first hand the barriers individuals face in when trying to secure and maintain accommodation.
The session will be recorded and materials later hosted through the NCVS website.
By signing up to this event you will be added to a mailing list to be notified about future sessions in this series.