Housing First for Youth – Sharing Experience and Knowledge

This session will focus on how the Housing First for Youth approach and model, and the Metropole de Lyon's A Roof, A Job project, can foster partnerships between housing providers, service providers and other key actors to support young people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. This workshop will feature insights from experiences in Spain, Ireland, Scotland and France on how Housing First for Youth can be an effective tool to end and prevent youth homelessness.

The speakers of this session are:

- Renaud Payre - Métropole de Lyon (Lyon, France)

- Samara Jones - Housing First Europe Hub 

- Lisa O’Brien - Focus Ireland (Ireland)

- Kate Polson - Rock Trust (Scotland)

- Tracey Longworth - Almond Housing Association (Scotland)

- Vanesa Cenor del Rey - Hogar Si (Spain)