CONTENTS:

Sharing Experiences: News from Health Professionals across the EU:

• Peers Work in Health and Homelessness: Examples of Innovative Practice, by Kit McKinley and Josie
  Mavromatis
• Can Street Nurses bring change in homeless people in Brussels?, by Céline Riat
• Awareness, access and use of health care services in the homeless population of Athens, by Katerina Gourgourini and Elisabeth Ioannidi-Kapolou
• Progretto Diogene: Integrated approach to homelessness and mental illness in Milan, by Vita Casavola and Emanuela Iacono

Resources:

• Guide on violence against women with substance abuse by Maria Boustedt Hedwall
• New European Portal for Action on Health Inequalities, by Yoline Knipers
• Mental Health and Addiction amongst the homeless population in the Paris region – conference report
• Homelessness, Mental Health and Well-being – a guide
• Battered, broken and bereft – a new rough sleeping report
• Voices of Experience – how people who drink on the street can make positive changes in their lives – report and academic study
• Moving Forward – Health and Homelessness in Scotland – conference report
• Homelessness: a silent killer – research briefing on mortality amongst homeless people
• Environmental burden of diseases associated with inadequate housing – WHO report
• Call for proposals – European Commission co-financing projects