Decision details

To seek approval from the Director of Public Health to award a grant to Humankind for the Trauma Informed Navigator Model for Improving Access to Health Services project from the Public Health England Rough Sleeping Grant

Reference: D50506

Decision Maker: Director of Public Health

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Decision:

• In 2019 Public Health England announced a grant funding opportunity, Rough Sleeping Grant: Testing Community Based Models of Access to Health Services. Applications were invited from Local Authority areas to test approaches to addressing the needs of people who are rough sleeping or have been rough sleeping and who experience co-occurring conditions of substance use and mental health issues, supporting them into health and wider services and away from the streets.
• Leeds City Council worked with a range of partners to develop a project to address this need and the application was one of only six projects nationally to be successful. A grant of £251,500 has been awarded by Public Health England.
• The project is to establish and test a Trauma Informed Navigator Model and this report recommends that the grant is provided to Humankind (lead provider of the Forward Leeds drug and alcohol service) to establish and deliver the model as detailed in the application to Public Health England.

Wards Affected: (All Wards);

Contact: Ian Street, Commissioning and Contracts Officer Email: ian.street@leeds.gov.uk.

Publication date: 28/01/2020

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