This project encourages services to see people who have experience of homelessness (past or present) as whole people with strengths, talents, resilience, and aspirations rather than defining people by their needs.

Taking an integrated creative health approach to homelessness moves the system from a focus on meeting the most basic needs (food, water, shelter, safety) to one which is able to meet the more complex emotional, social, and spiritual needs we come with as complex human beings (acceptance and belonging, purpose and fulfilment) and to facilitate personal growth and development.

Spanning three years, the See Me North project aims to inform and develop trauma informed approaches, evidence good creative health practice locally and nationally, map creative health approaches across the North East and Cumbria and support integration within the health system, and develop an online directory of available support, working collaboratively with decision-makers, service providers, and people with lived experience of homelessness to continually challenge, grow, and celebrate practice across the region.