GBA Care Community Support Services provides a number of family centred support services that can be put together into bespoke packages to ensure that the needs of the young people and families can be met.
All our packages of support are detailed, transparent and are designed to reduce; the contact, support, dependency and the overall associated costs during this period. The success of our 24/7 support has been achieved by putting together small teams of experienced workers with specific interests and skills that are matched to the individual or family to provide continuity and engagement.
Our following packages are entirely unique in meeting all individual and family needs, and we can be extremely flexible allowing us to provide this service to any local authority in Yorkshire or the North West of England –
Home and Community Support – offering intensive support to children, young people and families to maintain positive family living in their own home/tenancy or a GBA Care supported tenancy.
Parenting Support – GBA Care work in partnership with families to develop strong positive parenting skills and increase their capacity and resilience to manage more effectively in challenging situations. The service is supported by professionals trained in the Triple P Parenting Program.
Supervised Family Contact Service – offering a safe and meaningful way for children to maintain contact with their parents, siblings and extended family.
Family Support Assessments – offering support to local authorities in undertaking assessments. Specific pieces of work to support any assessment process can be undertaken to ensure that the correct identification of services are made available to the individuals and the family as a whole. Our Outreach and Family Support Services aim to support individuals to participate and engage in their local communities, whilst increasing opportunities for work and social activities.
GBA Care’s experienced and flexible Community Support team enables us to provide an outcome focussed service to young people and their families whom are of complex nature. We offer a bespoke 1:1 service as well as 2:1 support in the community or within the family residence.
GBA Care Community Support Services provides support and activities that can be built into a 24/7 support package which can include:
- Supported Tenancies
- Positive Parenting Progress
- Skills for life and living
- Self-care
- Attending of professional meetings i.e. court (Family/Criminal Justice), PACE interviews
- Supporting with healthcare appointments
- Social development and engagement in individual and community-based activities.
- Self-management and independence
- Advocacy
- Leisure and social activities
- Housing and Benefit Advice and job/career seeking support
- Social Development
GBA Care Community Support Services seek to make information available in a user-friendly way which supports our partnership with young people, their families’ and care professionals.
Support workers provide individual and group support, including:
- Supporting individuals to actively manage their own homes and perform household tasks as independently as possible
- Making and keeping appointments related to ordinary living, health, and well-being.
- Pursuing personal development activities, such as work or volunteering
- Accessing and taking part in social and leisure activities
- Initiating and consolidating personal interests and peer relationships
GBA Care Community Support Services Providing Accommodation:
GBA Care believes that the basic need for safe and settled accommodation, with appropriate advice and support, is fundamental to the personal and social care of both young people and their families whom are in need. The Young People and their families whom we support often are at a vulnerable stage in their lives and we match them with safety assessed and suitable accommodation, providing a range of support and advice services which are person-centred and customised to match their individual needs.
GBA Care source accommodation through working in partnership with the local Council or Housing Associations and the private rented sector (GBA Care is not the Landlord). Our working partnerships allow us to quickly source accommodation to meet the needs of the young people and their families. GBA Care is also able to take on tenancies for young people and their families if this is supported by the placing authority and the Landlord of the properties.
By keeping a small number of private rented properties available we can react to placement requests by Local Authorities at very short notice and provide emergency accommodation.
GBA Care Community Service’s work with families in a variety ways to show effective practice, including:
- Joining up local services
- Dealing with each family’s problems using a holistic approach rather than responding to each problem, or person, separately.
- Designating a dedicated Support Worker with the skills and experience to develop a professional working relationship with the family, working intensively with them to enhance positive, sustainable change.
- Utilising a range of methods and evidence-based practice that support families and challenges negative behaviour.
- Working with parents and families to facilitate the opportunity for their children to return home under the Placement of Children with Parent Regulations or the Care Leavers Act.
Young People, Parents and Families will be supported to:
- Be and stay healthy.
- Be and stay safe.
- Enjoy and achieve.
- Make a positive contribution.
- Achieve economic well-being.
- Become independent and non-reliant on services.
- Move on, securing their own tenancies.
- Be involved in education employment and training
- Promote life skills to achieve the five outcomes.
- Reduce or prevent any types of offending behaviour.
- Establish a stable environment.
- Provide a safe, and secure environment as a foundation to develop further.
- Develop the confidence to act as a responsible member of the community.
- Re-establish positive family links.
- Ensure they can successfully budget and manage their own finances.