Aim: Helping Vulnerable Young People become Independent and Empowered to Nurture Their Ambition in Life
16+ Accommodation with 24 hours support
Gateway Housing provides a specialist high standard of accommodation and supportive environment for residents aged 16+ young people. We aim to ensure young people are able to develop and maintain respect, self-reliance and self-care skills and enable them to make informed, age-appropriate decisions, concerning their present and future so they can achieve a successful transition into independence and adulthood.
Services offered are based on an assessment of the young person’s needs.
WHO WE PROVIDE SERVICES FOR:
The young people we accommodate and support have varying needs which may include:
– Young people whose vulnerability and behaviour places themselves or others at significant risk. Young people are accommodated on welfare grounds or through the criminal justice system.
– Young people who suffers from mental health issues and have difficulty regulating their emotions and unable to remain with their parents and families
– Young people who displays challenging behaviour, involved in drugs and alcohol abuse
– Young people who have history of self-harming behaviours and low level sexualised behaviour and unable to cope without adequate support
– Young people involved in gang related risky behaviours , known to YOS and involved in criminal behaviour which places them at risk of harm
– Young people who have a long history of missing episodes and unable to form a stable relationship and engage in any form of education or training
– Young people who have been in and out of the care system and foster placement and unable to build the necessary independence skills to prepare them for adulthood
Gateway Housing will provide:
– 24 hour support within the home
– A robust 24 hour management on call system available for out of hours support
– Regular reports on young person’s progress
– Access to regular expert consultation, assessments and therapeutic intervention
– Family work that may facilitate a return to the family home, foster care or kin-ship care
– Expert clinical consultation and advice to the staff and management
– Expert therapeutic intervention and assessment
We also offer therapeutic services such as:
– trauma management;
– motivational mentoring;
– challenging negative mindsets by using pro-social modelling and resilience-based approaches;
– interventions to reduce offending behaviour, gang affiliation, county lines drug dealing, gun/knife crime and serious youth violence.
Gateway housing believes that every young person has the right to be supported into a successful transition from childhood to adulthood, regardless of their background or circumstances.
We work, where appropriate, with the young person’s family in order to assist in improving relationships and actively support them to maintain the positive links in their lives.
We also liaise with external agencies to support the work carried out with young people. This includes drug and alcohol services, advocacy services, training and apprenticeship programmes organisation, colleges and CAMHS services.
ADAPTING OUR SERVICE DURING THE COVID-19 OUTBREAK
We are adhering to Government guidance – and in some cases going above and beyond those measures. We have unfortunately reduced access to our homes to essential visits only, which are heavily restricted and determined on a case by case basis.