Multiple Disadvantage and Homelessness Programme

Our Multiple Disadvantage and Homelessness Programme works with cross sector partners to improve their response to survivors of domestic abuse and other forms of violence against women and girls (VAWG) impacted by homelessness and severe and multiple disadvantage. By ‘Multiple Disadvantage’ we are referring to those with cooccurring experiences of homelessness, substance misuse, interpersonal violence and abuse and poor mental health (Gender Matters). We recognise that Multiple disadvantage is a systemic, not an individual issue; structural inequality creates the conditions in which experiences of poverty, abuse, trauma and neglect intersect. In addition, disadvantage is further compounded by systemic discrimination based on concepts of identity, such as age, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, religion, or belief. 

Our funded projects are united by a common purpose: 

We work to educate providers around the needs of survivors of abuse and other forms of VAWG who experience homelessness and severe and multiple disadvantage.  

We work to highlight the structural barriers this group face in accessing services and support and build a coordinated community response to domestic abuse and VAWG.  

We work to change the systems that create and reinforce multiple disadvantage in the lives of survivors of domestic abuse and VAWG by supporting organisations to pilot and embed new approaches and by engaging with policy and commissioning at both the local and national level.