Cyrenians is pleased to launch its new three-year strategy, committing to a public health approach in its mission to tackle the causes and consequences of homelessness.
Presenting to an audience of key stakeholders from across the public and private sectors at a recent breakfast event, Ewan Aitken, CEO of Cyrenians said:
“Our ambition with this strategy is to lift the housing crisis from being siloed as a housing problem to it being understood across all sectors as a public health issue.”
Taking a public health approach, the new strategy moves from addressing the impact of a lack of accommodation to addressing the underlying reasons why people have become homeless in the first place, recognising that the adverse outcomes homeless people experience are largely determined by the systems and social context around them rather than as a result of their individual choices and behaviour within their own control.
Cyrenians Strategic Plan 2024-2027 is accompanied by an annual action plan that will track and measure outcomes against four key priorities:
- Preventing homelessness taking a public health approach
- Responding to evidence-based need with services the charity is best placed to provide
- Delivering whole person, whole family and whole community interventions
- Being an organisation which nurtures its people and is financially and environmentally sustainable
For further information, please see the Cyrenians’ Strategic Plan 2024-27 in full.
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