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Monday 21 May 2012

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Regional Conferences

P3 and The Cyrenians logos

Thames Reach, P3 and The Cyrenians hosted regional conferences in London, Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle in 2010. This page contains presentations and notes from the days.

Kevin Ireland's report "Walking the Walk" is available to download here.

The Conferences included speakers from each organisation, Communities and Local Government as well as personal testimonies from employees with experience of homelesnsess and service use.

You can read user employment case studies from Kevin Ireland's report "Walking the Walk" .

Kevin Ireland - "Walking the Walk" - [322 KB] Kevin's presentation describing the research project and headline findings

Communities and Local Government - How GROW fits in - [684 KB] Presentation from Michelle Binfield (London) and Rebecca Pritchard (Newcastle and Stoke-on-Trent)

Beth Coyne - the National GROW Programme - [446 KB] Presentation describing the support available from the National GROW Programme

P-Pod videos - the client perspective - [1 KB]

Workshop notes - [51 KB] Summary of discussions of barriers/solutions from the regional conference workshops

Jeremy Gray - Customer Employment at South London YMCA - [4.59 MB] Presentation by Jeremy Gray, CE of South London YMCA about customer employment and the London Partnership

Stephen Bell - The Cyrenians - [1.29 MB] Presentation by Stephen Bell, Chief Executive of The Cyrenians on their experience of client employment. Newcastle February 4, 2010

Thanks to CaterPlus for sponsoring the London Event.