Pathways - clarifying the responses for residents who are homeless or at risk of homelessness

The pathways project seeks to identify, clarify, and refine the pathways for residents in Newcastle who are either homeless or at risk of homelessness.

In this project, the term ‘pathways’ refers to how we respond to those residents who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. How do we identify someone threatened with homelessness or actually homeless? what steps do we take to respond? and who carries out these steps? 

The first stage of the project took place from November 2017 to March 2019 and had four key objectives:

• consolidate our responses to homelessness (and the threat of homelessness) into pathways which align to the key causes of homelessness in Newcastle
• map the ordering of responses within each pathway and clarify the roles and responsibilities of different services within each pathway of response to identify gaps in continuity for residents
• collate useful information on each pathway into an accessible and navigable resource for practitioners
• gather feedback from practitioners on both the resource and the actual pathways of response

The project  involved practitioners from a range of different organisations to develop, review and test the individual pathways and the resource as a whole. The result is a single resource that draws together our responses into a form which is clearer and more understandable to practitioners.

The pathways resource

The pathways resource is currently being updated to reflect current practice and service changes since it was first produced and is not currently available. 

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