Ending homelessness requires preliminary work by introducing preventive policies, focusing on the causes of exclusion.
What’s being done today in Belgium to prevent homelessness? This is the theme for discussion by the fourth and last panel during the national conference, organized by Street Nurses on 14 October.

Prevention: a final essential pillar supporting the fight against homelessness

The number of people living on the street keeps increasing notwithstanding measures already taken and joint action by different actors in the fight against homelessness.

The fourth pillar supporting the fight against homelessness, after those on data, housing, and accompaniment, deals with prevention. A coherent strategy must include general and structural policy measures to prevent circumstances that push people into homelessness.
Without such policy we’ll never get beyond treating persisting homelessness rather than defeating it.

What’s being done in Belgium today to prevent homelessness? What are the risk groups requiring urgent structural measures to avoid them landing (again) on the street?

Panel members

The fourth panel of the national conference “From dream to reality: ending homelessness in Belgium” is composed of representatives of Belgian organizations focusing on global accompaniment of homeless people:

° Erik Vreven, Social worker at CAW Limburg
CAW Limburg works preventively by offering solutions to social problems, like debt mediation, providing information about rights, prevention of evictions.
° David Praile, Coordinator at the Rassemblement Wallon pour le Droit à l’Habitat (RWDH)
RWDH is a regional associative platform bringing together actors dealing with the problems of housing. It works for the promotion of the effective right to housing, to homes and everybody’s right to live in one.
° Patricia Vansnick, Administrator at Le Passage pour sortants de prison.
Le Passage is an NGO working for the reintegration of people by means of housing according to the principles of Housing First.

Information and registration

• Place: Koninklijke Vlaamse Schouwburg, KVS (Royal Flemish Theatre)
• Address: Rue de Laeken 146, 1000 Brussels
• Duration : from 8.30 am till 6 pm
• Tickets:
  • 35 € + administration cost (at the entrance) – SOLD OUT
  • 10 € + administration cost (online) – STILL AVAILABLE
  • Reservation