Announcing our first SHIFT cohort

We are very pleased to announce our first cohort of SHIFT participants. Upon a significant number of applications, MoH’s selection panel expanded the programme. We have recruited 16 outstanding participants from a wide variety of homelessness and housing orgs across England, from grassroots CICs to local authorities. The cohort brings together a wide range of job roles, skills and experiences with one common aim - to develop trauma conscious leadership and apply this in their organisations and careers.

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Alison Charles Commissioning Officer for Rough Sleeping and supported accommodation services, Haringey Council

Amy Cozins Operations Manager, CHESS Homeless

Ben Hawke Service Manager - Vocational Development Programme, St Petrocs

Caylie 'CJ' Jago-Loughlin Deputy project manager, Project Compass

Chima Itabor Shelter Manager, Outside Project

Claire Moynehan Advanced Clinical Practitioners/ Registered Mental Health Nurse. Bevan Healthcare

Holly Henderson Rough Sleeping Pathway Coordinator, Islington Council

Jane Williams CEO & Founder, Magpie Project

Julia Hancock Charity Manager, Selig

Juliet Grenville Participation Lead & Brighton and Hove Frontline Network Coordinator, Justlife

Lyron Johnson Head of Service, London & Quadrant Housing Trust

Mellissa Brown Peer Coach Lived Experience Coordinator, Forest Churches Night Shelter

Sophia Fedorowicz Research and Evaluator, Expert Citizens CIC

Verity James-Sinetos Development Manager - Housing & Homelessness, Emmaus UK

Leigh Jennings Coach, Porchlight

Reana Darnell Maisto Day Centre Manager, New Horizon Youth Centre

Over the next ten months this cohort will undertake a learning journey around the individual, structural and global traumas that shape homelessness today. Together, this cohort will be working towards real and lasting change in the homelessness sector and we cannot wait to get started working with them next week.

You can find more information on SHIFT here Shift — Museum of Homelessness

We are grateful to our funder, the Sarah Jane Leigh Charitable Trust for supporting this first edition of SHIFT: Trauma Conscious Leadership for Troubled Times.

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