"The catalogue of broken placements that young people in our care have often endured seem to come to an end when they reach Young Foundations"Social Worker
Transition
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There are two Young Foundations Transition homes and they are in Crook, County Durham and Seaham, near Sunderland. These provide residential support for young people aged between 16 and 25.
They offer placements for young adults at that difficult stage between children's services and moving into their own homes or into adult services. Our transition homes are designed to support young adults with complex needs who may challenge.
The facilities at these homes include each young adult having their own room, learning opportunities through ASDAN, a family-sized kitchen and personal computers. They are designed to offer the chance to learn life skills and to access the wider community. YF encourages young adults to access education in schools and colleges in the community also.
Core Aims of our Transitions
• Ensuring that services are high quality, engaging and responsive to the needs and expectations of those who use them.
• Meeting all statutory requirements of Safeguarding and Protecting young people.
• Achieving stability for young people with complex needs, ensuring that care and support does not fall away or become fragmented as they move towards adult services
• Promoting a healthy body and a healthy mind – by providing health transition plans and pathways which enhance the young person’s ability to take appropriate responsibility for managing their own physical and psychological health needs.
• Developing personal skills – promoting choice and opportunities for independent living. Our service is designed to transform the experience of young people and includes a range of activities to support access and empowerment to community leisure and culture opportunities. Offering greater choice and control to young people with the right support to make choices that other young people take for granted.
• We take fully into account the individual’s personal aspirations and support their ambitions as they move from school to college, training or employment. Our aim is to help them to work towards economic independence.
• Providing measurable outcomes to ensure a cost effective service.
How do we provide this?
Our support is provided in a non judgmental, positive, and child-centred way. We do this by promoting positive risk taking, with risk management procedures ensuring safety as a priority for vulnerable young adults.
Characteristics of a good transition service
We provide the young person with clear boundaries to enable predictability and consistency in their lives. Our staff provide good role models and the approach is geared towards providing a homely environment, with emotional warmth in a therapeutic environment.
Skill mix
Our skill mix ensures adolescent health and education expertise, professional/clinical leadership, key working (where required) and supervision of support staff. This all supports the young person through effective listening, advocacy, and teaching (of practical and emotional skills).
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