East Sussex Youth Homelessness Strategy Stakeholder Event

East Sussex Youth Homelessness Strategy Stakeholder Workshop
Monday 9th March 2009
2.00 pm
Assembly Rooms, Town Hall, Grove Road, Eastbourne, BN21 4UG

Preventing youth homelessness is a key priority within the East Sussex Children and Young People’s Plan. It is also top of the agenda for the government. The reasons for this are simple and stark. Homelessness reduces life chances. If young people become homeless they are far more likely than their peers to experience:
*A high risk of long term unemployment
*Inappropriate Housing
*Extreme Poverty
*Mental health problems
*Exclusion from mainstream education
*A far greater risk of involvement with drug and alcohol misuse and crime

As partners in the East Sussex Children and Young People’s Trust, the county council and all the districts and boroughs in East Sussex have therefore been working together to develop a strategy for tackling youth homelessness. As key local stakeholders your contribution is vital to ensure East Sussex succeeds in preventing vulnerable young people from becoming homeless. You are therefore warmly invited to this workshop where you will be able to find out about more the work that has been done to date and contribute to the final strategy and action plan.

Click on email address to book your place ssteele@hastings.gov.uk.

Contact: Sophie Steele on 01424 451308 for more info.