Stopover provides a home for young women who have nowhere else to live. Most have no family support or positive adult role models, and have never had a place to live where they feel safe. Often the young women have suffered years of abuse and trauma, and have not had an adult in their lives that they could trust.
Many of the young women we work with go through our pathway, and as their independence grows, starting in our house with 24 hour support through to our lowest support houses with just an hour a week.
As young women move on from Stopover to live independently, many keep in touch with us due to the fact we have been the only people who have consistently cared about and acted upon their welfare.
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Stopover is unique in offering a route through supported housing in small properties with support from the same staff team. This enables the young women to establish positive long-term relationships and has proven successful in supporting young women to move on to living independently.
Stopover’s nine houses and single staff team give on-going support throughout the transition from 24 hour support to living independently. We help the young women to address support needs and build the life skills they need such as healthy eating, budgeting, managing drug and alcohol use, mental health issues as well as accessing education and employment which enable them to become a contributing member of the wider society. Staff also support the young women to access external services which will be of help to them.
Stopover works closely with social care, and housing services to identify and accommodate those young women who would benefit from female only accommodation. We have excellent relationships and are often willing to take a calculated risk on young women that other services may feel unable to accommodate. This is a direct result of the size of our properties, skills of our staff team and our ability to successfully monitor and deal with behaviour issues as and when they arise
If you would like to get in touch please feel free to use the contact form, give us call on 01273 603775 or email us at stopover@impact-initiatives.org.uk
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