Firbanks Supported Living is a 24 hour semi-independent living support service for looked-after young people, both male and female, between the ages of 16-25. We specialise in providing a combination of 24-hour shared and stand–alone placements with a comprehensive professional and psychologically informed support service. We offer both short and long term support and emergency placements.
The challenge of finding affordable housing is immense. Young people facing and experiencing homelessness is an increasing and visible issue within the UK. We’re on a mission to change that. We provide a safe place to live, for young people aged 16-25, across our services and move-on accommodation. Our pathway of support adopts a person-centred approach across three stages of accommodation. A dedicated staff contact is assigned to each young person we support and will help them as they progress from supported through to independent living.
Our properties are all located in residential areas, close to local amenities, leisure facilities and employment opportunities. Whatever the set-up, we provide a safe and homely environment, where personalised support is delivered to help people live as independently as possible.
Through elements of communal living children and young people make new friendships, develop social skills and can get involved in group sessions such as cooking, gardening and film nights.
We provide care and support in communal settings: from shared houses, to purpose-built apartment buildings where young people have their own flats. We offer a range of housing with support, designed to meet the young person’s individual needs as below:
Supported accommodation – This includes short term homelessness relief accommodation where we respond to unpredictable requests and demand and offer rapid responses to meet the accommodation and support needs of young people including Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children. This includes Young People with severe and multiple disadvantage and includes trauma informed and multi-disciplinary approaches within in good quality accommodation and psychologically informed environments.
Crisis ‘emergency’ beds – We provide crisis ‘emergency’ that offer a prompt and brief response to Young People who are homeless
Resettlement support – This service is for move-on from supported accommodation into independent living that focusses on the prevention of homelessness and mitigates against repeat cycles of homelessness
This is our first stage accommodation and is aimed at helping young people gain practical day to day skills to help them live independently
FSL support staff are located on the premises 24/7.
The service is mainly caters for at 16/17-year-old care leavers with high support needs. The main areas for this service are to improve the Young Person’s mental, emotional, physical wellbeing. Intensive support is delivered and managed by a registered nurse with extensive experience of working as a Emotional Wellbeing Practitioner in CAHMS triaging, giving advice and support to children and young people about emotional wellbeing including mental health.
This is our second stage accommodation and is aimed at helping young people prepare for independence. It is located within easy distance to local shops, bus routes and not far from the shopping centres.
Floating support services are provided by dedicated FSL staff.
The service is aimed at 16/17-year-old care leavers with low to medium support needs. The aim of the service is: to support young people into education, training or employment and to ensure that young people are supported to be tenancy ready.
This is our third stage accommodation service and is aimed at Young People who have been in supported or shared accommodation.
Floating support is provided by dedicated FSL support staff.
The service is aimed at individuals with low or minimal support needs who have been in employment for at least 8-12 weeks. The aim of the service is to ensure that Young People are supported to be tenancy ready.
My stay has exceeded my expectations both in terms of comfort and safety. I can sit back, relax and enjoy my living, knowing that I am in a secure and comfortable environment.
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