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Community Housing and Support Network

Community Housing and Support Network. Learning Disability Partnership Board WORK OUTCOMES 2013 -2014 February 2014. The Network Aims to help people …. Have choice about where they live and find a home Settle in and live happily as part of our communities

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Community Housing and Support Network

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  1. Community Housing and Support Network Learning Disability Partnership Board WORK OUTCOMES 2013 -2014 February 2014

  2. The Network Aims to help people…. • Have choice about where they live and find a home • Settle in and live happily as part of our communities • Find work and gain confidence by helping to run the Housing Network

  3. Our Work Agreements with Learning Disability Partnership Board

  4. Work Agreements In March 2013 we agreed to do some work to help people with Learning Disabilities to meet their Housing Needs and find out about Self employment We agreed a number of outcomes to achieve This report tells you how we have done in making these happen

  5. How We Did

  6. What We Were Asked to Do We were asked to:- • Set up a Helpline about Housing • Set up a Housing Options club • Match People to Housing • Write and run a course about Self Employment • Set up an Enterprise Club • Do a Report about Self Employment • Update the Actions in the Housing Plan

  7. We Did.. We did all of these things We are also doing some work with some people to help them think about self employment and make it happen for them

  8. Outcomes of this work

  9. People’s Housing Needs We Did:- We found out about the Housing needs of about 20 people, some with complex disabilities We Said:- Find out about people’s housing needs and work together to meet them

  10. Information about Available Housing We Did:- Housing providers are telling us when the right housing comes available and we are telling people about these on our website and by email. So far they have told us about 25 homes We Said:- We would share ideas and information about available housing

  11. Working Together to Find a Home We Did:- People and professionals meet together monthly at the Housing Options Club So far 28 people have attended and professionals from Health, Housing, Social Care and education have joined us We Said:- We will help people work together and solve problems

  12. Providing Advice and Assistance We Did:- Our Helpline service has been running since May 2013 and has had 80 enquiries. We have also helped more people through our Website. 70% of the questions have been about Learning disabled people We Said:- We would provide advice and assistance to help people with housing problems or questions

  13. Matching People and Housing We Did:- We created a Housing Needs Questionnaire and logged people on our database. We match people to housing when providers tell us homes are available. We helped 3 people find a home this way so far We Said:- We would set up a system to find out what housing people need and start matching people with housing

  14. Helping People to find out about Self Employment We Did:- We started a course in Sept 2013 and have had 9 sessions. 15 people have attended the Course of which 7 are people with a learning disability We Said:- we would run a course for disabled people about self employment

  15. People supporting each other to be Self Employed We Did:- We have, so far, had 3 meetings of this club and 8 people have attended. People talked about their Business idea and ways they could help each other We Said:- set up an Enterprise Club to help people support each other to get started

  16. Make a Guide to becoming Self Employed We Did:- We are writing the Self Employment Course as we go and, once complete, this will be made into an east read guide for people to use. So far have made about 3 quarters of the guide We Said:- we would create a guide about self employment

  17. A Service to Help People become Self Employed We Did:- We had a meeting with lots of interested organisations and spoke the Job centre and to Mi Enterprise about the way they help people. We produced a report in Sept 2013 and a meeting will be held in February 2014 to decide We Said:- we would write a report about setting up a service for people with disabilities in Northants

  18. Work Still to Do • Finish updating the actions in the Housing Plan • Help more people on a 1 to 1 basis think about self employment • Run more Enterprise Club sessions • Do more things about Self Employment

  19. Other Things we did this year that will also help people with Learning Disability

  20. Our Housing Work This Year We helped :- 5 people find homes and settle in 50 health staff understand more about housing We worked with a local college and helped 6 college students find out more about housing People better understand their housing rights

  21. We helped… 9 Local Authority bodies to work together better Made contact with many housing providers Trained 6 people to be Housing Brokers or Assistants 50% are disabled people Produced easy read and plain English guides about housing

  22. Who We have HelpedPeople’s Housing Stories

  23. We are also helping our disabled members to Work with The Network 4 of our disabled members have been training as Housing Brokers or Assistants since Sept 2013 They have also received training on IT and general admin We hope all will start paid work with us shortly

  24. Types of work they may do • Admin tasks • Housing Brokerage work • Project Work • Consultancy Work • Training work

  25. Our Work this year in pictures……2013 work film andwww.vimeo.com/43101533

  26. Our Plans for the Future

  27. Our Plans for the Future We want to :- Help more people through our housing service Provide a Housing Brokerage service Work with more schools and colleges Set up a Self Employment Service Help more disabled people to work Help make more housing available

  28. Making These Dreams happen To keep these good services going and to help more people we will need more money We have already made our money stretch very far and achieved many good outcomes We want to help many more people and organisations Can you help?

  29. Any Questions Any Thoughts

  30. Doing this together The challenges we all face are too big for any one of us to solve alone The answers will come by working together, as equals, to tackle problems in new ways, with respect, humility and compassion for each other and ourselves Marion Turner

  31. To join us Speak to Marion Turner 01933 381467 or look at our website www.myhomemysay.co.uk Or email mturner@myhomemysay.co.uk

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