Aims and Objectives
Moving On aims to provide the support to help the young person to adjust from adolescence to adulthood and to enable them to live independently long term.
Moving On enables the young person to take calculated risks in order that they may learn by their mistakes how to cope with the pressures and responsibilities of living in the community.
Moving On delivers tailored packages of support to all young people.
Our Aims
To assist young people in forming a good working relationship with their outreach worker by providing a consistent dedicated support worker and manager.
To provide young people with safe, secure and realistic accommodation
To facilitate young people in holding a successful tenancy to include liaison with neighbours and landlords
To encourage young people to form positive and healthy relationship with peers
To provide young people with access to education be it through our AQA program or through supporting them in college/training programs
Providing positive models of acceptable behaviour to include keeping and maintaining a home
To provide emotional support and guidance and signposting to other support services if required
To plan for the future, to include looking at housing options and contingency plans
To complete Outcomes star with young people to measure the journey of change young people make
To work in partnership with young people and involved professionals on clear, realistic and transparent plans for young people
To provide an outcomes based service
Objectives can include:
To help young people to communicate
To develop transferrable lifelong independence skills
To enrol young people into education or training either in house AQA or local colleges
To increase self-esteem, self-belief and resilience
To signpost young people to local services to include housing, health, sexual health and recreational facilities
To use restorative approaches to enable young people to try and break negative cycles of behaviour such as criminal offending
To help with time management and finding constructive, positive activities
To help young people to develop relationships with professionals, peers, family and others
To help young people learn that their behaviour makes them accountable and that they are responsible for their own choices
To help them to develop as a person and to maximise their life chances.
““I would describe it as feeling of security, independence and freedom wrapped in a house shaped box””
