Sustainment - Mental Health Housing Support Service
The sustainment service a flexible and client-centred service to people with a range of mental health problems and other support needs. Support is geared towards the person achieving a successful independent tenancy and living a fulfilled life. We offer floating support to people in their own accommodation.
We provide support to people with complex needs on a longer term basis. The emphasis is still around promoting independence, but it is recognised some people need support for longer than 2 years.
Support is usually one-to-one and helps people to access psychiatric and other services. The service also provides: emotional support; guidance and advice; advocacy (speaking out on a client’s behalf); practical help including budgeting skills and managing and maintaining housing needs.
The service encourages people to be as healthy as possible both mentally and physically, and enables them to be independent by identifying their strengths, resources, and aims.
We a high quality city-wide service with a variety of services including: Markham Avenue drop-in (mainly for Black African and Caribbean clients), and Little London drop-in service available to tenants in flats locally.
Additional specialist workers are available for the following groups;
• Single parents with children, including a South Asian support worker
• African and Caribbean people, including a women’s worker
• South Asian people, including a women’s worker
• Clients with substance misuse issues
Support is typically for one or two hours per week and includes out of hours on early evenings, weekends and bank holidays when needed. The service also offers a range of regular social and activity groups, including activities specifically aimed at women.
Special schemes include:
Markham Avenue
The Markham Avenue Drop-In is located in the Harehills/Chapeltown
area of Leeds. This service is overseen by the Out of Hours Black African/Caribbean worker and predominantly supports clients of this ethnicity.
Tel.: 0113 307 3900 for further info
Little London
The Little London scheme provides support to clients and has a drop-in facility for Community Links’ clients within the Little London area of the scheme.
The Housing worker
In addition to this support we are also able to provide a package of furniture and redecoration for those in need, living in a Leeds City Council property and who are eligible for housing benefit. There is a designated housing worker who helps oversee this part of the support in liaison with the housing support worker.
CONTACT DETAILS
To make a referral to the Service, please contact:
Community Links,
Sustainment, Mental Health Housing Support Service, Suite 1, Bank House, 150 Roundhay Road, Leeds, LS8 5LJ
Telephone No. 0113 3073900.
e-mail sustainment@commlinks.co.uk www.commlinks.co.uk
Team managers: Vanessa Howie and Mel Andrews.
