Project
Step by Step
Purpose
To help homeless young people achieve their potential
Funding
£2.8m in 2015/16, around 85 per cent from housing and support contracts with Hampshire, Surrey and West Berkshire councils
Action
Young people are mainly referred by council children’s services and just over half are 16 or 17. They are given an emergency bed if needed, while an allocated skills, talent, empowerment, progress (Step) worker conducts a needs and skills assessment. The worker can refer them to in-house services including family mediation, counselling and drugs and alcohol service D’n’A.
The charity’s four main bases or “foyers” offer two stages of accommodation, starting with clients staying for around five months in premises staffed round the clock. The young people cook and do household chores on a rota and have one or two weekly one-to-one sessions, helping them identify their skills and aspirations.
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