Community Support

The support programme is divided into two sectors: Floating Support and Family Support.

The aim of the Floating Support service is to enable the participants to achieve a number of outcomes including:

• Developing skills to ensure they can live independently in their own home.
• Finding alternative accommodation if they want or need to.
• Sustaining their current home to prevent homelessness, including understanding the terms of their rental and utility contracts.
• Managing their own finances, benefit claims, bill payments, and paperwork.
• Finding out about and dealing with other government and non-government services and agencies.

All families need support at some point. Our support service helps families turn things around in difficult times with practical and emotional support. Together with a support worker, the client identifies needs and with their collaboration, a developmental plan is put in place to achieve agreed outcomes.

Our service is aimed at enabling the following outcomes for parents and families:

• Greater confidence with parental role.
• Better understanding of parental rights and responsibilities.
• Better ability to seek appropriate help and find timely solutions to improve current situation.
• The creation of a better family environment.
• Finding out about and dealing with other government and non-government services and agencies.