Working Life: Giving back to my community as a peer advocate

Sinead Flynn, health peer advocate with homeless charity DePaul, Dublin City

Sinead Flynn, a peer advocate on DePaul's pioneering healthcare project for the homeless.

6am

I’ve an early start as I’m collecting one of our service users to accompany him to a hospital appointment at the Mater University Hospital. We take a taxi from the hostel that he’s staying in and we arrive at the Mater at 8am. As a member of DePaul’s Homeless Health Peer Advocacy Programme (HHPA), my role involves helping those who are homeless to navigate healthcare services so that they can get the care they need. Being homeless can be a huge barrier to accessing healthcare.