A Gendered Approach to Youth Homelessness

During the study session participants spoke about many of the challenges young women face which can act as triggers to homelessness Within the Council of Europe gender can be a and perpetuate the experience of contested term, for the purposes of the homelessness, which are listed below in box 1. [...] The Istanbul Gender Equality Commission Convention is the Council of Europe’s Within the Council of Europe the Gender Convention on preventing and combatting Equality Commission aims to ensure the violence against women and domestic mainstreaming of gender equality into all violence and is seen as a core part of the Council of Europe policies and to bridge the Council of Europe’s work on gender. [...] The piloting of addiction is often treated as a survival ‘Psychologically Informed Environments’ in homelessness tactic for homelessness, it can also be a services and the development of the Royal College of cause of homelessness. [...] integrated into the housing services which include intersectional feminism, right to the In Albania, the human rights of LGBTI+ people have city, (decide where they want to live, access to only been brought to the public’s attention over the public transport and mobility) freedom of course of the last decade. [...] Self-Care - Taking on too great a sense of responsibility or feeling you need to Services working with young women at risk of overstep the boundaries of your role homelessness should also be acutely aware of - Difficulty leaving work at the end of the the needs of support workers.