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LJM Housing

This project has now been running for the past 13 years in partnership with Liverpool Social Services in the provision of services to young care leavers. Operating in leased properties, it accommodated over 250 young people for periods ranging from 6 months (for the most capable) to 18 months (for the most vulnerable), with noticeable success in re-engaging them with families and reducing the levels of hospital visits due to self-harm. The project also offered outreach support services to 105 young people in various locations, helping them to maintain their tenancies.
 

Aims

 

Key workers work with the young people towards the government aims of Every Child Matters
  • Being healthy: enjoying good physical and mental health and living a healthy lifestyle;
  • Staying safe: being protected from harm and neglect;
  • Enjoying and Achieving: getting the most out of life and developing the skills for adulthood;
  • Making a Positive Contribution: being involved with the community and not engaging in anti-social or offending behaviour;
  • Economic wellbeing: not being prevented by economic disadvantage from achieving their full potential

Objectives

  • Turning Lives Around: building on existing strengths to deliver positive outcomes
  • Engage & Inspire Clients to Overcome Their Barriers: identify barriers, develop an action plan, provide positive role models
  • More Than A PlaceTo Live: innovative approach to ending a cycle of long term homelessness
  • Helping Young People Believe in Their Own Abilities: Help them learn to acknowledge their own strengths and gifts, setting achievable standards, recognise potential.

Who uses our projects?

The Supported Accommodation Project continues to provide support for the most vulnerable and disturbed young people in our communities. All our residents will tick several of the boxes below;

  • All would come to us through referrals by their Social Workers
  • All would be ‘cared for children’, and many from when they were little children
  • Most of them would have gone through several residential provisions, often much larger than ours, and for various reasons would have faced eviction
  • Have criminal records
  • Faced physical, sexual or mental abuse
  • Be out of any formal education, training or employment
  • Be estranged from natural family
  • Have little or no life skills needed to live alone
  • Have very poor social or behavioural skills