Using communications and campaigning to improve results for our clients: Learning from lived experience and international approaches
A Talk by Jennifer Harrison , Mat Amp and Hannah Gousy
About this Talk
This session will consider how we can try and influence homelessness policy through communications and campaigns. We will hear: • How Changing Lives use the voice of lived experience in communicating for policy change considering the ethical and practical considerations of this and how to make it meaningful • About the collaborative project between Groundswell and The Pavement Magazine “From the Ground Up” and how their volunteer Peer Journalists use their experience of homelessness to report on issues that are important to homeless people and explore solutions. • From Head of Policy and Campaigns at Crisis talking about her research on political campaigning strategies for ending homelessness in Australia, Canada, Spain and the US