There is no space in our society for homeless people (HL people), no matter if the traveller takes the road in search of freedom or runs away from difficult situations; The streets sometimes mean giving up materialism in search of adventure, but in many cases it is a journey that involves invisibility, negative perceptions, exploitation, criminalization, addictions and loneliness, all of this affects the reality of HL people, who quickly forget their previous lives and become just homeless. As human beings we have an innate need to connect with other people, connections give meaning to our lives; we want to be present for the people we love and for the things we love to do. HL people are blamed and criminalized, as an incentive for them to stop being homeless, however, we are only putting barriers to their re-connection. They may reach their lowest point when they lose hope, and are no longer able to bear to be present, then see themselves immersed in destructive paths.In Spain it is estimated that there are more than 30,000 HL people, of which about 30% have mental illness and 11% schizophrenia. This situation confirms that far from integrating vulnerable people, society expels them. ATL project proposes a genuine way to solve the so far intractable problem of homelessness: Investing in their experience and equipping them to be able to reconnect other HL people. ATL will improve HL people’s situations through the specific creation of tailor-made training opportunities and also, stable employment. ATL will train them in something that no one is more suitable than HL people themselves: Supporting third sector organizations to decrease the number of HL people by adopting the role of Journey Certified Supporters (JCS). JCS will support other HL people from the inside, in an unconditional, non-judgmental, respecting and valuing way to build and help building happy, fulfilling and connected lives. ATL Training Model objectives: (1) Provide professionals working with homeless people (PwHL) with global and comprehensive training solutions to address target groups' individual situations.(2) Jointly design an innovative training model and methodology, integrated in other services, which provides HL people with real self-actualizing opportunities and also practical and sustainable job solutions. The goal: to re-enter society and support others to take the necessary steps towards it.(3) Sustain happy and connecting lives among HL people by providing them with a sense of identity and purpose as Journey Certified Supporters (JCS) and by re-connecting them with their communities.(4) Reduce the number of HL people and the likelihood that someone will experience homelessness in the future.(5) Employ a number of JCS and promote others on the labour market to establish a dynamic and sustainable employment system.A team of experts specialized in working with HL people (AP, P2, P3, P4, P5), in Peer support (AP, P2) and in Restorative Justice (P1) will jointly create an innovative tailor-made training program based on individual case management, covering knowledge, skills, practice and values of supporting others, with elements of Restorative Justice, to restore family ties and reconnect them with friends and fellows as a protecting factor. In contrast to traditional approaches, ATL Training Model is a methodology that seeks to create value for others not only offering HL people something but training them to contribute within their communities by using their own experience effectively in helping others. These are ATL Training Model main activities: (1) To design and test a training programme fully transferable which includes a teaching/training curriculum and supporting materials, addressed to professionals and needed to certify HL people as JCS. (2) To create an Online Training Service, where PwHL will find all the information needed to replicate ATL Training Model, including: JCS Online programme, JCS Vocational Qualification, readers’ digest systems and ATL Serious Board Game.(3) Organise an awareness-raising campaign to not only promote a change in third sector organizations' model to address the situation of HL people, but as equally important, to deeper the understanding of homelessness locally and change people’s perceptions, promote reporting, dispel stigma and target the causes that fuel intolerance or invisibility of our target groups.ATL will, in this way, provide an innovative training model, not being applied in any place yet, which takes advantage of HL people's previous knowledge and skills, to allow them to pass from being excluded to take an active role helping others.ATL Training Model goes beyond and supports 'Housing First' movements by helping HL people to also accommodate what they have lived on the streets and offer them real opportunities for training, employment and reconnection.

The project Dignity & Well-Being: exchange for changing (D&WB) aimed at creating a strategic partnership for vocational education and training of professionals working with homeless and refugees with a special focus on the most deprived and severely mentally ill as well as promoting improvements in terms of quality, innovation and excellence in the training of professional workers in social and mental health field, especially for those working with homeless and refugees with mental illness.To accomplish these two general objectives, based on an international network of professionals working with homeless in different kinds of organizations and countries, the project developed four Short term joint staff training events that consisted on the presentation and discussions of cases studies, which allowed to identify and learn new and innovative solutions and, at the same time, to produce a manual, a training curriculum and training tools that can be shared and spread among other professionals and organizations.The project network included eight organizations that have a long experience on the delivery of services to the mentally ill and the most social excluded, combining organizations from both the public and private, as well as the health and social sectors.It used a methodology based on intervision by peers in Short term joint staff training events with relatively small groups of experienced professionals. Through a program of visits and workshops, the participants had the opportunity to present case profiles, focused on situations of homelessness, to evaluate similarities and differences in the difficulties and interventions and to identify good practices considering the four pillars initially identified (Social, Health, Housing and Recovery) and three beams introduced during the project (Outreach, Networking and Staff care).From these four Short term joint staff training events and a lot of research work between them, resulted two intellectual outputs: A training curriculum aimed at the grounding of professionals working in the social and of mental health areas to understand and respond appropriately to the needs of homeless people and a manual reflecting practical approaches to working with homeless people with mental health problems.Both intellectual outputs are complementary and can be used in the delivery of lifelong learning activities aimed at the professionals working with the homeless.The Multiplier Event gave the opportunity to present the Intellectual Outputs and to discuss the conclusions of the project with a wider forum, with more participants and experts from other countries outside the partnership.The partners implemented several dissemination activities taking the results of the project to a wider audience, raising the awareness of the complexity of homeless conditions. The dissemination of the project was, therefore, an opportunity to disseminate values and information on the approach to these complex problems and the mentioned audience are the main stakeholders but, at the same time, the vehicle to spread information and training tools that will help professionals in their efforts to fight social exclusion.Partners will continue to develop activities of the same scope and promote new projects together or with other partners in the context of a wider international network of professionals working with homeless in different kinds of organizations and countries.