Who is the Service for?
The Housing Support Service offers practical support to you if you are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.
What is the Service?
The service currently provides support to you if you live in hostel accommodation or other forms of temporary accommodation such as furnished flats and bed and breakfast accommodation. The service can also be used to prevent you becoming homeless.
The main aims of the service are to:
- develop housing support plans with you to assist you throughout the process of resettlement from a temporary to a permanent home
- engage in preventative work with you if you are at a clear and imminent risk of homelessness and
- prevent homelessness recurring
The key areas of support provided are:
- assistance with budgeting
- debt counselling
- assisting you to develop or rediscover skills needed to maintain a tenancy
- befriending support
- assistance with completion of forms e.g. Housing Benefit
- accessing other support services e.g. health, social work, leisure and education and
- advice and advocacy
Who is the support provided by?
The service is provided by the groups shown below and is geographically based. Service providers have responsibility for the support service provision within their clearly identified boundaries. This includes people in hostel accommodation, temporary furnished flats, bed and breakfast establishments and permanent tenancies. Areas covered as follows:
| Provider |
Hostel |
City Area |
Phone |
| Aspire |
|
East/North |
0141 548 1552 |
| Loretto Care |
|
North East |
0141 420 7965 |
| Unity Enterprise |
|
West/ North West |
0141 959 7563 |
| Gowrie Care |
Inglefield Street |
South/ South East |
0141 429 7283 |
| SAMH |
|
South west/ Greater Pollock |
0141 445 6809 |
How do I access the service?
There is no direct access to this service. You must to be referred to one of the above providers.
People who can refer you include caseworkers, case managers, care managers, hostel manager/deputes, social workers, GHA and other housing association officers and voluntary sector staff. They should obtain a referral form by contacting the Homelessness Partnership, the Housing Support Providers direct or any of the Community Casework Teams . Referrers must provide clear and concise information about the housing support needs of the client as well as identifying specific housing support tasks and support hours required.
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