What We Do
Our Services
The Positive Housing Pathway compromises of specialist supported accommodation with 24 hours support, semi-independent living with visiting support and outreach support in the community.
Pathway Objectives:
- Provide a clear gateway to independence; specialist accommodation, semi-independent living and support to maintain their homes in the community.
- Young People can access the right levels of support, with the flexibility to move back into higher supported accommodation.
- Ensure continuity (staff teams) for young people throughout their journey towards independence.
Semi Independent Living Services
Young people in and leaving care often need additional support before being ready to live independently.
We provide a range of semi-independent living (SIL) services for young people in and leaving care including young parents and their children and Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASC). Our SIL services operate on a spot purchase basis enabling us to work with any local authority to provide suitable support and accommodation to a young person aged 16-21. Depending on the young person’s needs we may take people up to 24.
These services are flexible to adapt to a young person’s changing support needs and we can offer a range of flexible support packages. Our teams work closely with the young person’s social worker or personal advisor to ensure that we are supporting local authorities with their corporate parenting responsibility.
We have a trauma-informed and person-centred approach to support and encourage young people to co-produce our services from planning activities to defining service agreements to choosing curtain colours. If you would like to find out more, or make a referral please visit the Young People referral section to contact a member of our team.
Supported housing services
Most young people we work with receive support from our supported housing services. This includes hostel, step-down and floating support services.
Supported housing - step-down and visiting support
Many young people in our accommodation-based services move on to our step-down or visiting support services. These are often nearby or in the same local area.
Here young people who are ready to become more independent live in shared accommodation and receive support from our visiting teams. These services provide a valuable stepping stone for young people moving from accommodation-based support to independent living.
Supported housing - floating support
We support young people living across a variety of different settings. They might be living with friends, relatives or in shared accommodation. For many, this may be the first time they will have lived independently.
We provide practical support around managing and maintaining a home and support them to feel safe, secure and confident.
Parent and child services
Our specialist services offer support for women from pregnancy to parenthood. Our teams help each young parent to meet the practical and emotional challenges of raising a child, establish support networks and build healthy relationships that benefit the whole family.
Our Approach
Key to our approach for young people is our Lifeskills Programme, co-developed by our customers and staff. Mapped to the Government’s Care Leavers’ Strategy, it focuses on building skills and confidence in the different areas professionals look at when assessing a young people’s ability to live independently. This includes emotional wellbeing, skills, training and work, health, finances, relationships and their living environment.
Young People & Care Leavers
We support young people and care leavers to develop the skills and confidence they need to live independently.
They might have had problems at home, come directly from care or be escaping abuse, violence or exploitation. Others may have mental health needs, drug or alcohol issues or have offended in the past. Whatever their background, we know that with the right support, they can go on to achieve great things.
