Skye Constantine

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Skye is a PhD candidate with the Department of Nursing, Midwifery, and Social Work at the University of Queensland, and a freelance consultant providing specialist and capacity building services through Constantly Learning and the Lived Experience Led Homelessness Collective. They work to bring their twenty plus years of practice experience in the homelessness and social housing sectors, the wisdom of their own and others’ lived/living experiences, and the findings of contemporary research to the development of reflective and purposive practices for housing and social justice. Their research interests focus on the possibilities of community collaborations and democratic transformational knowledges for addressing homelessness and creating opportunities for prosocial change.

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Trauma and homelessness: Can we address the impacts of trauma without ensuring the home?

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This co-produced systematic review of 27 studies found that homelessness involves traumatic experiences affecting mental health, substance use, and leading to desensitisation. However, lived experience reviewers question whether the findings are new knowledge and critique the limited scope, inadequate explanation of co-production processes, and failure to address housing policy as the root cause of homelessness.

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