Announcing our first SHIFT cohort
We are very pleased to announce our first cohort of SHIFT participants.
SHIFT is a ten month trauma conscious leadership programme for people working in housing and homelessness.
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, London.
Amy Cozins, Operations Manager, CHESS Homeless, Essex.
Ben Hawke, Service Manager - Vocational Development Programme, St Petrocs, Cornwall.
Caylie 'CJ' Jago-Loughlin, Deputy project manager, Project Compass, Lincolnshire.
Chima Itabor, Shelter Manager, The Outside Project, London.
Claire Moynehan, Advanced Clinical Practitioners/ Registered Mental Health Nurse. Bevan Healthcare, Leeds.
Holly Henderson, Rough Sleeping Pathway Coordinator, Islington Council, London.
Jane Williams, CEO & Founder, The Magpie Project, London.
Julia Hancock, Charity Manager, Selig, Suffolk.
Juliet Grenville, Participation Lead & Brighton and Hove Frontline Network Coordinator, Justlife, UK-Wide.
Lyron Johnson, Head of Service, London & Quadrant Housing Trust, UK-Wide.
Mellissa Brown, Peer Coach Lived Experience Coordinator, Forest Churches Night Shelter, London.
Sophia Fedorowicz, Research and Evaluator, Expert Citizens CIC, Stoke-on-Trent.
Verity James-Sinetos, Development Manager - Housing & Homelessness, Emmaus UK, UK-wide.
Leigh Jennings, Coach, Porchlight, Kent.
Reana Darnell, Maisto Day Centre Manager, New Horizon Youth Centre, London.
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.