Volunteer training course

***Coming soon in 2025***

In collaboration with Ridley Hall theological college and the Diocese of Ely, CCHP are designing and creating a free course to enable church communities and individual volunteers to be more confident, more compassionate and more effective in their support of people facing homelessness.

This course will cover a wide variety of topics relevant to volunteering alongside people experiencing homelessness, such as from trauma, addiction, deep listening and relational psychology.

There will be input from experts working in homelessness services and people leading the way theological reflection on homelessness. Most importantly, there will be substantial input from experts-by-experience, i.e. people who’ve experienced homelessness themselves.

In fact, the first step in creating this course was to record interviews with over a dozen people with lived experience of homelessness. Their thoughts, experiences and reflections that provide the foundational material for this course and are referred to at every stage.

If you would like to be contacted when this free course is open and taking applicants, please express your interest with Mel at mel@cchp.org.uk