CYP Now - Youth work has lasting impact on homeless young people

Accommodation initiative sees YMCA North Tyneside offer a long-term home to homeless young people and support to help develop their lifeskills.

Young people get the chance to develop life skills in a place of safety and stability

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By the time young people present as homeless, their traumatic experiences mean they are likely to need more than a roof over their heads to move on with their lives.

YMCA North Tyneside has responded with a project that combines housing provision and a co-creation style of youth work in one place – Sir James Knott House in North Shields offers 36 bed spaces to homeless young people.

According to Colette Twomey, a senior housing support worker with the project, the council’s team performs well, but it is working “well beyond” its means. This leads to young people with higher support needs accessing the charity’s services.

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