My Space My Place: The Young Person’s Guide

Every housing provider knows that young people often struggle to sustain their tenancies and that these struggles can lead to crisis and even homelessness.
The Scottish Council for Single Homeless’  Tenancy Sustainment Resource for young people, ‘My Space, My Place,’ can play a valuable role in prevention work. By giving young people the advice and information they need in a form that they understand and respond to we can help them keep their tenancies going.

My Space, My Place: Workers Toolkit

The Workers Toolkit includes session / activity plans for one-to-one and group work on the theme of tenancy sustainment. The resource was developed through consultation with young people as well as workers and builds on the successful My Space, My Place model.
As well as a copy of the Young Persons Guide, the Toolkit includes a CD with standard letters, templates for customising the Young Person’s guide, e.g. budget sheets, and video material of young people talking about their experiences of leaving home and living independently.

Copies of My Space My Place are priced at £6 a copy (plus P&P) and can be ordered using the SCSH publications order form http://www.leavinghome.info/scsh-publications/ (or for more information phone o131 337 8243 ).