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Who is the database for? Teachers, Youth Workers, Housing Support Workers, Policy / Decision Makers, Development Workers, and Young People. |
Housing Support Favourites: How can young people sustain their
tenancies effectively? Here are some of our top picks for resources that aim to
help support young people make a success of their accommodation. You can
search the database for more material.
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| My Space My Place - The Workers Toolkit |
| First published 2006, Scottish Council for Single Homeless |
| Cost: £30 |
Description The workers toolkit consists of a Young
Persons Guide (11 magazines in a special
carry case) with an additional magazine
for workers and a CD-ROM packed with
useful material. The toolkit is intended for all workers supporting young people in their tenancy.
The workers magazine, just like those for young people, is practical and accessible. It includes personal stories as well as practical advice on helping young people sustain their tenancies, making best use of the My Space My Place pack and a guide to the CD-ROM.
The CD-ROM includes fifteen session
plans for working with young people
preparing for and settling into their own tenancies. In addition, there are bundles of warm-up exercises, additional group and one-to-one activities, standard letters, and templates for customising the Young Persons Guide. Also included are some video clips in which young people and workers discuss the challenges of sustaining a tenancy.
The My Space My Place resource won the UK Housing Award for Outstanding Achievement in Social Housing for Scotland in November 2006. |
| Usage The toolkit is intended for all workers supporting young people in their tenancy. |
| Format |
Printed |
Type |
Session Plans etc. (for Youth Work) |
| Last Updated |
13th Nov 2007 |
Weblink |
www.scsh.org.uk/Youth/TSR.htm |
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| My Space My Place (Tenancy Sustainment Resource) |
| First published 2005, Scottish Council for Single Homeless |
| Cost: £12.50 |
Description My Space, My Place is a new resource aimed at helping young people to sustain their tenancies. A series of themed magazine cover a range of tenancy issues. Cartoons and illustrations are used throughout and all the magazines have been extensively tested with young people to make sure they are accessible and informative.
The My Space My Place resource won the UK Housing Award for Outstanding Achievement in Social Housing for Scotland in November 2006. |
| Usage Young tenants, young people preparing for a tenancy, housing support workers |
| Format |
Printed |
Type |
Practical Information |
| Last Updated |
4th Dec 2006 |
Weblink |
www.scsh.org.uk/Youth/TSR.htm |
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| Streets Ahead |
| First published 2002, Scottish Council for Single Homeless |
| Cost: £6.00 + £1.50 p&p |
| Description The national guide to leaving home and housing for young people in Scotland. 23 individual booklets, each tackling a different aspect of leaving home, presented in CD storage case. Written and design for young people and in consultation with young people. Discounts available for large orders. Local Directory production services also available. Training available. More than 40,000 distributed since launch in 2003. |
| Usage Schools, young people thinking about leaving home, care leavers preparing to move on, young tenants, homeless young people |
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Printed |
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Practical Information |
| Last Updated |
20th Oct 2006 |
Weblink |
www.scsh.org.uk |
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| Service User Involvement: A Study into Service User Involvement in Youth Housing in Scotland |
| First published 2006, Scottish Council for Single Homeless |
| Cost: £10 |
| Description In 2005-2006 SCSH undertook a series of interviews with projects providing housing support to young people. Our aim was to find out how these projects involved their service users. This small survey – encompassing 21 projects – gives a snapshot of both the different kinds of service user involvement activity and the extent of such activity across Scotland.
This report sets out a straightforward mapping tool – adapted from Arnstein’s well-known ladder of participation - for assessing the level of service user involvement in housing support projects and shows how those surveyed scored. Projects can also use this tool to assess the service user involvement taking place within their own organisation. |
| Usage Project Managers and Policy Makers |
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Printed |
Type |
Practice and Techniques |
| Last Updated |
20th Oct 2006 |
Weblink |
www.scsh.org.uk/youth/sui.htm |
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| Practice Bites Database |
| First published 2005, SCSH |
| Cost: Free |
| Description Check out the SCSH Practice Bites Database. Practice Bites are brief, innovative and replicable examples of youth housing practice. Search the database for exising Practice Bites or add a Practice Bite for your organisation. |
| Usage Anyone with an interest in youth housing practice examples. |
| Format |
Website |
Type |
Directory of Services |
| Last Updated |
20th Oct 2006 |
Weblink |
www.scsh.org.uk/bites |
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| Independent Living Skills Information Pack and Facilitators Pack |
| First published 2005, Project 101 |
| Cost: |
| Description A pack providing independent living skills for young people who have their own tenancy or awaiting to be allocated a tenancy. A facilitators pack for workers can also be purchased to use with the young people. |
Usage Pack for young people aged 16-25.
Facilitators pack for workers working with the young people. |
| Format |
Printed |
Type |
Session Plans etc. (for Youth Work) |
| Last Updated |
20th Feb 2006 |
Weblink |
www.eastdunbarton.gov.uk |
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| Housing Resource Pack for Housing Advice Workers |
| First published 2004, Positive Action in Housing |
| Cost: Free |
| Description This pack come together as a result of research identifying a lack of knowledge of basic housing information resources as well as referral agencies amongst black and minority ethnic advice agencies. The pack is for housing advice workers assisting people from black and minority ethnic communities and includes information on housing rights, housing problems and useful contacts. |
| Usage Housing advice workers assisting people from black and minority ethnic communities |
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Printed |
Type |
Session Plans etc. (for Youth Work) |
| Last Updated |
7th Jun 2005 |
Weblink |
www.paih.org |
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| Leaving Home in the Highlands Website |
| First published 2007, The Calman Trust |
| Cost: Free |
| Description A website providing information on leaving home for young people living in the Highlands. Sections in the website include: leaving home, skills for living, mind and body, learning, your career.
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| Usage For young people living in the Highlands who are thinking of leaving home or who have recently left home. |
| Format |
Website |
Type |
Practical Information |
| Last Updated |
13th Nov 2007 |
Weblink |
www.leavinghomeinthehighlands.org |
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 The Practice Bites Database allows you to search through a range of youth housing and support projects and includes brief examples (bites) of innovative practice which could easily be replicated by other projects. Click here to search the Practice Bites Database.
'Development of the site was made possible by funding from HomePoint'.
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