Supporting People with Drug and/or Alcohol Issues Stage 1,2 & 3
Stage 1
Introduction
PAS provide accommodation and support in conjunction with Cornwall County Council for people with substance misuse issues.
Level of support
This project will provide 6 units of accommodation and around 6 hours of support per client per week. This support will be 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.
This project will provide a solid foundation for engagement with services. It is envisaged that it will provide the transition from chaotic lifestyle to settled independent living.
The support offered is visiting in nature and will consist of individual key working and organised house meetings. The support is aimed at maintaining current levels of need and developing skills to maximise independence and plan for a structured move to less supported housing.
Clients will have access to out of hours support and management for emergencies.
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.
Services Offered
- Individual support plan based on individual needs agreed by client
- Individual key working with mutually agreed goals
- Managed house meetings chaired by clients
- Developing community links
- Facilitate access to employment and education initiatives
- Promotion of recovery lifestyle
- Relapse prevention awareness
- Individual work surrounding domestic and social skills
- Emotional support
- Maintain good neighbourhood skills
- A safe environment in which to live
- Fiscal awareness and management
- Collaborative working with agencies involved with the client
PAS Ltd provides a support team to assist housing clients with the difficult situation of having to live in temporary accommodation. The support is aimed at assisting the clients to address the issues that led to this.
Individual key working takes place on a regular basis and staff work closely with other agencies.
On arrival clients will receive an induction to the property and a support plan/risk assessment will be completed.
Aim of the scheme
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 one house providing 6 bed spaces for vulnerable adults with issues around drug and alcohol. Within the 1st week, the client will receive a full support needs assessment and a mutually agreed support plan will be completed. 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.
Objectives 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 level 2 or independent accommodation.
Schemes Criteria
All prospective residents must:
- Be aged 18 or over
- Be in need of single person accommodation
- Have a history of alcohol issues/substance misuse
- Be abstinent
- Agree to work with support provision (In house or with external agencies) to develop their individual support/move-on plan
- Have no history of arson
- Not be a sex offender
House rules
We try to keep house rules to a minimum. However, for the safety and comfort of all the following house rules apply in all accommodation:
- Residents must abide by the licence agreement
- No illegal drugs or alcohol are to be used on or off of 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
- Residents must meet all financial obligations
- No behaviour from over intoxication will be tolerated from residents or their visitors.
- Abstinence is required at all times both by residents and their visitors.
- Visitors must sign in and out of visitors book
- Residents are responsible for the behaviour and actions of their visitors
- No smoking is allowed in the communal areas
- No visitors under the age of 18
Stage 2
Introduction
PAS provide accommodation and support in conjunction with Cornwall County Council for people with substance misuse issues.
Level of Support
This project will be the second stage of move-on for clients leaving stage one. The scheme is designed to consolidate and further improve life skills and ensure continued engagement with both their individual support plan and any external agencies that they may be involved with.
The support offered is visiting in nature and will consist of individual key working and organised house meetings. The support is aimed at maintaining and improving levels of need. Support staff will work with the client to maximise independence and plan for a structured move to our stage three project.
Clients will have access to out of hours support and management in event of emergencies.
Services Offered
- Individual support plan based on individual needs agreed by client
- Individual key working with mutually agreed goals
- Managed house meetings chaired by clients
- Developing community links
- Facilitate access to employment and education initiatives
- Maintenance and promotion of recovery lifestyle
- Relapse prevention awareness
- Continued individual work surrounding domestic and social skills
- Emotional support
- Maintain good neighbourhood skills
- A safe environment in which to live
- Fiscal awareness and management
- Collaborative working with agencies involved with the client
PAS Ltd provides a support team to assist housing clients with the difficult situation of having to live in temporary accommodation. The support will continue to work on the identified support needs with an aim for the client to move on to our stage three property and thereon to independent accommodation.
On arrival clients will receive an induction to the property and their support plan will be reviewed in order to reflect the change in circumstance and environment.
Aim of the scheme
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 one house, providing a total of 6 bed spaces for vulnerable adults with issues around drug and alcohol. The client will have an agreed support plan in place and the support provided will both aid the client to meet these support needs and react to individual changes by reassessing needs and developing an updated plan.
Objectives 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 clients to access level three or independent accommodation.
- Enable service users to maintain their tenancy.
- Assisting all clients to live independently and ensuring that all service users maximise resources and opportunities available to them.
Schemes Criteria
All prospective residents must:
- Be aged 18 or over.
- Be in need of single person accommodation.
- Have a support structure in place and continue to engage with support provision for development of their individual support/move-on plan.
- Not be using illegal or non-prescribed controlled drugs.
- Have a history of alcohol issues/substance misuse.
- Remain abstinent.
- Have no history of arson.
- Not be a sex offender.
House rules
We try to keep house rules to a minimum. However, for the safety and comfort of all the following house rules apply in all accommodation:
- Residents must abide by the licence agreement.
- 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.
- No pets are allowed in the house or grounds.
- Visitors are only allowed between 09.00 hrs and 22.00 hrs.
- Residents must meet all financial obligations.
- No behaviour from over intoxication will be tolerated from residents or their visitors.
- Abstinence is required at all times both by residents and their visitors.
- Visitors must sign in and out of visitors book.
- Residents are responsible for the behaviour and actions of their visitors.
- No smoking is allowed in the communal areas.
- No visitors under the age of 18.
Stage 3
Introduction
PAS provide accommodation and support in conjunction with Cornwall County Council for people with substance misuse issues.
Level of support
These projects are aimed at those clients who wish to maximise their independence with some access to visiting support and intervention from PAS staff.
This provision is designed to be sustainable and forward thinking. The delivery of support work is directed towards continued compliance with support plan and finalising self-development towards independent living.
Residents will be supported through managed house meetings and individual support but less regularly than at initial projects. They will have access to respite or crisis intervention if life crisis demands.
Services
- Individual support as required
- Support plan and review
- Develop community links
- Fiscal awareness and management
- Managed house meetings chaired by clients
- Maintain good neighbourhood skills
- Maintain domestic / social skills
- Promotion of recovery lifestyle
- Emotional support
- Dispute negotiation, awareness and facilitation
- Resettlement and advice and advocacy
- Relapse re-offending prevention awareness
- Continued collaborative working with agencies involved with the client
- Facilitate access to employment and education initiatives
- A safe environment in which to live
PAS Ltd provides a support team to assist clients with the difficult situation of having to live in temporary accommodation. The support is aimed at continuing to assist the clients to address the issues that led to this.
Aim of the scheme
To provide safe and decent temporary accommodation for single people with low-level support needs. 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 1 house, which provides 5 bed spaces for vulnerable adults with drug / alcohol issues and who require a minimal level of support. The client will have an agreed support plan in place. This support package is designed to cater and react to the individual circumstances and to provide the most input possible, when it is most needed.
Objectives of the schemes
- Provide a supportive environment, which facilitates and encourages individual clients to identify and address issues that led to their vulnerability and ultimately aid their recovery.
- Provide good quality, single person accommodation.
- Assess each persons needs and facilitate service take up.
- Assist people to live independently.
- Ensure all service users maximise resources and opportunities available to them.
- Enable service users to maintain their tenancy.
- Assist service users to access independent accommodation.
Scheme Criteria
All prospective residents must:
- Be aged 18 or over
- Be in need of single person accommodation
- Have a support structure in place and continue to engage with support provision for development of their individual support/move-on plan
- Not be using illegal or non-prescribed controlled drugs
- Have no history of arson
- Not be a sex offender
- Have drug / alcohol issues
- Remain abstinent
House rules
We try to keep house rules to a minimum. However, for the safety and comfort of all the following house rules apply in all accommodation:
- Residents must abide by licence agreement.
- No illegal drugs or alcohol 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.
- Residents must meet all financial obligations.
- Visitors are only allowed between 09.00 hrs and 22.00 hrs.
- No behaviour from over intoxication will be tolerated from residents or their visitors.
- Visitors must sign in and out of visitors book.
- Residents are responsible for the behaviour and actions of their visitors.
- No visitors under the age of 18.
- No smoking is allowed in the communal areas
- Abstinence is required at all times.
Supporting Mental Health
Stage 1
Introduction
PAS provide accommodation and support in conjunction with Cornwall County Council for people with mental health issues.
Level of support
This project is intended to be the reception assessment facility, which will provide a high level of support that is aimed at stabilising and engaging with individuals who have mental health problems and related behaviours.
This project will provide approximately 6 hours of support per client per week and aims to build a solid foundation for engagement with services. It is envisaged this project will provide the transition to settled independent living.
The support offered is visiting in nature and will consist of individual key working and organised house meetings. The support is aimed at maintaining current levels of need and developing skills to maximise independence and plan for a structured move to less supported housing.
Clients will have access to out of hours support and management for emergencies.
Our underlying philosophy is one of providing access for socially excluded vulnerable adults through structure, planning, information and support. To allow individuals to maximise their independence, manage their lives and sustain households.
Services Offered
- Individual support plan based on individual needs agreed by client
- Individual risk assessment
- Develop daily living skills to promote independence
- Individual key working (weekly) with mutually agreed goals
- Managed house meetings chaired by clients
- Developing community links
- Development of client’s domestic/social/budgeting/life skills
- Facilitate access to employment and education initiatives
- Promotion of recovery lifestyle
- Development of peer and informal support networks
- Emotional support
- Maintain good neighbourhood skills
- A safe environment in which to live
- Fiscal awareness and management
- Collaborative working with agencies involved with client
- Advocacy
- Assistance with locating appropriate move-on accommodation
PAS Ltd provides a support team to assist housing clients with the difficult situation of having to live in temporary accommodation. The support is aimed at assisting the clients to address the issues that led to this.
Individual key working takes place on a weekly basis and staff work closely with other agencies.
On arrival clients will receive an induction to the property and a support plan/risk assessment will be completed.
Aim of the scheme
To provide safe and decent temporary accommodation for single people with support needs around mental health. To develop the skills of service users and assist those to overcome barriers to independent living and identify and secure suitable long term housing solutions. We also aim to provide a person centred approach, which is both flexible and reactive to the individual.
This project will consist of one house providing 6 bed spaces for vulnerable adults with issues around mental health. Within the 1st week, the client will receive a full support needs assessment and a mutually agreed support plan will be completed. 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.
Objectives 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 level 2 or independent accommodation.
Eligibility Criteria
All prospective residents must:
- Be aged 18 or over
- Be in need of single person accommodation
- Have mental health issues & to be engaging with social workers/CPN
- Agree to a full assessment
- Agree to work with support provision (In house or with external agencies) to develop their individual support/move-on plan
- Have no history of arson
- Not be a sex offender
House rules
We try to keep house rules to a minimum. However, for the safety and comfort of all the following house rules apply in all accommodation:
- Residents must abide by the licence agreement.
- 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.
- Visitors must sign in and out of visitor’s book.
- Residents must meet all financial obligations.
- Residents are responsible for the behaviour and actions of their visitors.
- No smoking is allowed in the communal areas.
- No visitors under the age of 18.
- Inappropriate behaviour from service users or their visitors that may offend or cause an offence through intoxication or illegal substances will not be tolerated.
Stage 2
Introduction
PAS provide accommodation and support in conjunction with Cornwall County Council for people with mental health issues.
Level of Support
This project will be the second stage of move-on for clients leaving stage one. The scheme is designed to consolidate and further improve life skills and ensure continued engagement with both clients’ individual support plan and any external agencies that they may be involved with.
The support offered is visiting in nature and will consist of individual key working and organised house meetings. The support is aimed at maintaining and improving levels of need. Support staff will work with the client to maximise independence and plan for a structured move to less supported or independent accommodation.
Clients will have access to out of hours support and management in event of emergencies.
Services Offered
- Individual support plan based on individual needs agreed by client
- Individual risk assessment
- Develop daily living skills to promote independence
- Individual key working (weekly) with mutually agreed goals
- Managed house meetings chaired by clients
- Developing community links
- Facilitate access to employment and education initiatives
- Maintenance and promotion of recovery lifestyle
- Continued individual work surrounding domestic and social skills
- Emotional support
- Maintain good neighbourhood skills
- A safe environment in which to live
- Collaborative working with agencies involved with client
PAS Ltd provides a support team to assist housing clients with the difficult situation of having to live in temporary accommodation. The support will continue to work on the identified support needs with an aim for the client to move on to lesser supported or independent accommodation.
On arrival clients will receive an induction to the property and their support plan will be reviewed in order to reflect the change in circumstance and environment.
Aim of the scheme
To provide safe and decent temporary accommodation for single people with support needs around mental health. 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 one house, which will provide a total of 6 bed spaces for vulnerable adults with issues around mental health who require a medium level of support. The client will have an agreed support plan in place and the support provided will both aid the client to meet these support needs and react to individual changes by reassessing needs and developing an updated plan.
Objectives 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 clients to access lesser supported or independent accommodation.
- Enable service users to maintain their tenancy.
Eligibility Criteria
All prospective residents must:
- Be aged 18 or over
- Be in need of single person accommodation
- Have a support structure in place and continue to engage with support provision for development of their individual support/move-on plan
- Have mental health issues and be engaging with social workers/CPN
- Have no history of arson
- Not be a sex offender
House rules
We try to keep house rules to a minimum. However, for the safety and comfort of all the following house rules apply in all accommodation:
- Residents must abide by the licence agreement.
- 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.
- Visitors must sign in and out of visitors book.
- Residents are responsible for the behaviour and actions of their visitors.
- No visitors under the age of 18.
- Residents must meet all financial obligations.
- No smoking is allowed in the communal areas.
- Inappropriate behaviour from service users or their visitors that may offend or cause an offence through intoxication or illegal substances will not be tolerated.
Supporting Homelessness
Assessment Centre
Introduction
PAS Ltd work with Cornwall County Council in order to provide accommodation, assessment and support for homeless people and assist them in dealing with issues related to their homelessness, and address the issues that led to their vulnerability.
These issues might include substance misuse, offending, mental health problems, domestic or family break up and those fleeing violence.
This 8-bed project will provide support and accommodation with a continental breakfast in a Bed and Breakfast type provision for individuals requiring assessment and support in preparing to move on to alternative accommodation.
Level of Assessment and Support
This project is intended to be the reception assessment facility, which will provide a high level of support that is aimed at stabilising and engaging with homeless individuals with support needs.
PAS Ltd provides a team of support workers seven days a week with night staff for the homelessness assessment hostel. This consists of 2 Support Workers following rota 12-hour shift pattern and on site management hours, with additional waking night cover 7 days per week.
The support workers will assess the individual’s level of need using a holistic assessment tool and also complete a full risk assessment.
Following this assessment a decision will be made, in conjunction with any other agencies involved, as to where the individual may be best placed.
Whilst waiting for appropriate move-on accommodation to be identified, the staff will offer organised house meetings and weekly individual key work sessions which will include sign posting to other agencies that may work with the individual to meet their area of need.
Services Provided
- Individual Risk Assessment
- Individual Support Plan based on individual’s needs agreed by client
- Individual key working (weekly) with mutually agreed goals
- Managed house meetings chaired by clients
- Advocacy
- Promotion of recovery lifestyle
- Relapse prevention awareness
- Develop client’s links with local community services
- Develop client’s domestic/social/budgeting/life skills.
- Develop client’s behaviour management
- Develop client’s physical awareness
- Emotional support
- Develop peer and informal support networks
- Assist clients in employment, education and benefits take up
- Anti-social behaviour management and liaison and networking with statutory and voluntary agencies.
- Fiscal awareness & management.
- Assist clients in finding other accommodation
- A safe environment in which to live
- Collaborative working with agencies involved with the client.
On arrival, service users will receive an induction to the property and a support plan/risk assessment will be completed.
Aim of the Scheme
To provide a full and holistic assessment for homeless people in order that they may be housed in an appropriate environment.
To work with the Local Authority and other agencies in an operational and strategic level in order to source appropriate move on accommodation.
To create an environment for change that facilitates clients take up of opportunities to maximise their abilities to self-manage.
Objectives of the Scheme
- 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 the appropriate level of supported or alternative independent accommodation.
Scheme Criteria
All prospective clients must:
- Be Homeless
- Be referred by Cornwall County Council or its agents.
- Be in need of single person accommodation.
- Agree to a full assessment.
- Not use illegal or non-prescribed drugs on premises.
- Not consume alcohol on the property.
- Adhere to all rules contained within the Licence Agreement.
- Agree to move to accommodation offered following assessment.
- Agree to work with support provision (in house or with external agencies) to develop their individual support/move-on plan.
- Have no history of Arson
- Not be a sex offender
- Be aged 18 or over
House rules
We try to keep house rules to a minimum. However, for the safety and comfort of all the following house rules apply in all accommodation:
- Residents must abide by the licence agreement
- No illegal drugs or alcohol are to be used 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
- No pets are allowed in the house or grounds
- Visitors are only allowed between 09.00 hrs and 17.00 hrs
- No behaviour from over intoxication will be tolerated from residents or their visitors.
- Visitors must sign in and out of visitors book
- Residents are responsible for the behaviour and actions of their visitors
- No visitors under the age of 18
- No smoking is allowed in the communal areas
- Residents must meet all financial obligations