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Jeremy Swain
March 2011
Southwark Reach
Ending Homelessness:
three challenges
Twice as many people would feel sympathy for a homeless dog as for a homeless person with drug or mental health problems, a survey suggests. And 41% of those questioned believed many homeless people did not want to be housed, the survey for the BBC found.
Some 2,000 people across the UK were questioned for the survey, carried out by TNS and commissioned to launch the BBC's No Home season of programming.
‘Lack of sympathy for homeless’
Some 50% thought the homeless refused to help themselves
Source: BBC News Online 27/11/06
Working with communities
Family support
I have some strong relationships with my family
Strongly agree
Agree
Neither agree nor disagree
Disagree
Strongly disagree
Source: Thames Reach Service User Survey 2010
Family support
Strongly agree
Agree
Neither agree nor disagree
Disagree
Strongly disagree
Thames Reach helps me have the contact I want with my family
Source: Thames Reach Service User Survey 2010
Getting people into work
Yes
No
Are you currently in paid employment?
Source: Thames Reach Service User Survey 2010
Getting people into work
Yes, as soon as possible
Yes, but at some point in the future
No
Would you like to work?
Source: Thames Reach Service User Survey 2010
Getting people into work
Health reasons
Lack of skills or qualifications
Concern that would be worse off
financially
Worried about managing finances
At retirement age
In unstable accommodation
High rents
What is the main barrier to you getting a job?
Source: Thames Reach Service User Survey 2010
Solutions
Over 800 destitute Central and Eastern Europeans helped
home
Many more assisted to find work
http://www.thamesreach.org.uk/what-we-do/routes-home
Living Well Collaborative (1)
NHS needs to achieve more successful at home interventions
NHS needs to save money
Collaborative bringing together service users, carers, doctors, mental health teams, psychiatrists, voluntary sector
Thames Reach leads the community options team
Living Well Collaborative (2)
Objectives:
Early intervention to prevent relapse
Sign posting and support
Natural support mechanisms – peer groups, family, community
Easy in, easy out
Greater control and self-determination