Supporting People with Drug and/or Alcohol Issues
This project will provide a high level of support that is aimed at stabilising and engaging with individuals who have substance misuse problems and related behaviours. These are likely to include offending and anti social behaviours that impact on the community at large.
PAS works at both strategic and operational levels within each local authority. Specifically to this scheme we work with the Probation Service, CADA and New Connections. Residents may engage with further education, permitted work, counselling, developing budgeting and life skills and much more. Through the shared experience of living in a communal setting, residents have the opportunity to develop socially, whilst continuing to engage with their ongoing recovery.
This project will provide a solid foundation for engagement with services. This basis will create opportunities for progression through homelessness or being vulnerable to homelessness caused by substance abuse and related behaviours, to semi supported and settled move on accommodation. It is envisaged this project will provide the transition from chaotic life style to settled independent living.
Our underlying philosophy is one of providing access for the socially excluded through structure, planning, information and support. To allow individuals to maximise their independence, manage their lives and sustain households.
Schemes Criteria
All prospective residents must:
- Be aged 18 or over
- Be in need of single person accommodation
- Be in need of supported accommodation
- Have a previous local address or local connection (may be due to service provision, support, family or employment
- Agree to work with support provision to develop their individual support/move-on plan
- Have no history of arson
- Be abstinent from drugs and alcohol
- Not be a schedule one offender
Aim of the schemes
The aim of the schemes in Cornwall is to provide accommodation and the opportunity to pursue a drugs and alcohol free lifestyle in a supported, clean and dry environment.
To provide safe and decent temporary accommodation for single people with support needs around substance misuse. To develop the skills of service users and assist those to overcome barriers to independent living and identify and secure suitable long term solutions. We also aim to provide a person centred approach, which is both flexible and reactive to the individual.
This project will consist of 11 units of single person supported accommodation for vulnerable adults with issues around drug and alcohol. This support package is designed to cater and react to the individual circumstances and to provide the most support hours possible, when it is most needed.
Objective of the schemes
- To provide a supportive environment, which facilitates and encourages individual clients to identify and address the issues which led to their vulnerability, and ultimately aid their recovery.
- To ensure that these are met we will provide good quality, single person accommodation, assess each persons needs and develop ongoing support plans
- Assisting people to live independently and ensuring that all service users maximise resources and opportunities available to them.
- Enable service users to maintain their tenancy.
- Assist service users to access independent accommodation.
Type of support
On arrival residents receive an initial assessment of needs and a support plan is developed with them. Subsequently, key working takes place on a weekly basis. This project is staffed with on site support and has sleep-in night cover.
House rules
We try to keep house rules to a minimum. However, for the comfort and safety of all the following apply:
- No illegal drugs or alcohol are allowed on the premises
- Care and consideration for other residents and neighbours must be shown at all times
- Noise must be kept to a minimum at all times, but especially after 10pm
- If keys are lost a replacement charge of £5 will be payable
- Pets are not allowed in the house or grounds
- Visitors are only allowed between 09.00 hrs and 22.00 hrs
- Abstinence is required at all times
- Visitors must sign in and out of visitors book
- No visitors under the age of eighteen are permitted
- Residents are responsible for the behaviour and actions of their visitors
- Visitors must be abstinent
- No smoking is allowed in the communal areas