40 HOURS OF SUPPORT PER WEEK AVERAGE LENGTH OF SUPPORT: 111 DAYS
MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT Our mental health floating support worker offers specialist guidance and enables service users to access professional support where necessary.
THIS YEAR 47 individuals supported 74% prevented from
homelessness ‘This service has helped me deal with my journey of sobriety when times have been good and bad. I’m by no means the finished article but whilst working with this support I have come a long way. I’ve been put in touch with the right people at the right time and I’m grateful for this.’
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We’ve had a busy year with lots of changes and exciting developments. One of these is the addition of a Community Health Pod, donated by locallybased company Telehealth Solutions Ltd, which is used to measure people’s levels of depression and anxiety and enables us and service users to keep track of their mental health. The mental health support worker completed Cognitive Behavioural Therapy training which is enhancing the work she does with service users. This year, as in previous years, the most common illness that we’ve seen is depression and we’ve seen more people in need of longer-term support, rather than short-term work. We’ve also seen very educated, affluent people walk through the door, who you might expect to be in a job or working, yet they have found themselves homeless and in need of help.
Partially-funded by Hertfordshire County Council.