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Simon Community Scotland's Ronan MacDonald talks to Paul who we have supported in a number of ways, including through our digital inclusion programme - Get Connected 500.

Paul talks about his support worker and how he is now at college and in a home of his own thanks to our Housing First team in Edinburgh.

A guest podcast by Irene Warner-Mackintosh from Mhor Collective on our award winning digital inclusion work with people experiencing homelessness.

Ronan MacDonald from our Digital Inclusion team speaks with Sandy who we are supporting about his background, how he became homeless, the reality of rough sleeping in Edinburgh and how being involved with our Get Connected 500 project has changed his life.

Find out more about how we have connected 1,000 people experiencing homelessness to the digital world in our groundbreaking report 'I Feel Part Of Society' by visiting; https://www.simonscotland.org/2024/04/24/partofsociety/

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Simon Community Scotland have had the pleasure of working alongside tech consultancy AND Digital in the creation of a brand new digital harm reduction app, By My Side.

Join us as we hear from Hannah Boyle, Women's Harm Reduction Coordinator and Claire Longmuir, Policy and Practice Lead for Harm Reduction on the journey that brought us to By My Side. You'll also hear from Nikita Schultz, who worked on the development of the app and our partnership with AND Digital, our new charity partners for 2022.

This is part one of a two-part series. The next episode you will hear directly from women who were involved in the design and development of the app about what it meant to them to be involved and how it has impacted their lives.

Thank you so much to Nikita and the team from AND Digital. This is a trailblazing example of a modern charity partnership that will change and save lives.

Join our chat with the Period Friendly volunteers and Project Coordinator to learn more about the Period Friendly Project.

In an open and safe space we discuss:

• The role of the Period Friendly volunteer
• Why we believe the Project and provision of free period products is so important to people who are menstruating and experiencing homelessness
• Breaking taboos on menstruation
• The future of the Period Friendly Project

Get comfy and chill out with our chat for 20 minutes!

Lauren and the Period Friendly volunteers x

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With funding from the Scottish Government, Simon Community Scotland provided 100 people experiencing homelessness with:

• A digital device
• Unlimited connectivity
• Support from a trained Digital Champion
• A learning framework of digital skills

The results were life changing.

In our first ever podcast, you'll hear about how digital inclusion is absolutely vital for people experiencing homelessness.

When people can access the digital world, they are able to access other inclusion agendas such as social inclusion, health inclusion, financial inclusion, democratic inclusion, educational inclusion, cultural inclusion and inclusion in public services. This project doesn’t just include people in ‘digital’, it includes people in many other critical life areas. When people face multiple exclusions, ‘Digital’ is a pathway back into society and is an essential part of the solution to recovery from homelessness.

Thank you to everyone involved in the project and the podcast. 

The full report - Get Connected 100 

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