Kickstart housing CIC continues to provide supported and general accommodation within a pathway of accommodation and support to individuals experiencing or who are at risk of homelessness, in 2024 to 2025 we have supported and provided accommodation to 200 individuals and prevented them from becoming hopeless and supporting them to find employment or long-term stable accommodation. Furthermore, there are various individuals with complex mental health. We have highly skilled and experience staff who are able to manage and support these individuals and provide intervention services to prevent them from becoming homeless as they find it challenging sustaining their accommodation. We have also housed various individuals who have exclusion zones therefore we were able to prevent homelessness in that respect. This has massively improved these individuals mental health physical well-being and they have provided positive feedback on how our team is delivering an effective service. Kickstart housing continues to work alongside key partners to provide community initiatives unaware awareness regarding homelessness and preventing people from reoffending. 1. Kickstart housing has observed the following below on how we have benefited the community: We have provided support with housing related issues, move on pathways, employment opportunities, developing confidence to reintegrate into the community, volunteering opportunities, mentoring, support with applications, appointments, budgeting, food bank, making positive choices to benefit themselves in the community. 2. Stability and Safe Accommodation: Kickstart Housing provides safe and secure housing for those who have experienced rough sleeping with no prior documentation, therefore these individuals were supported to find necessary documentation, while providing housing to them, which has then improved their overall mental health and physical health. 3. Reintegration into to the community and supporting them with mental health: Kickstart housing has a trauma informed approach therefore we support individuals to engage with the community mental health team and other professionals to ensure the complexed mental health is addressed, therefore we adopt a multi-agency approach to ensure the individuals support needs are met. We have supported various individuals who have gone into crisis and stabilised them to ensure that the community even though health team supports them to prevent them from further deteriorating. We have supported visuals with substance misuse and refer them to relevant support agencies. 4. Employment opportunities: kickstart housing has successfully to find secure employment, who have now moved into affordable private accommodation. This has improved the overall mental health and improved relationships with their families. 5. Prevention of Reoffending: Kickstart housing has been supporting individuals Involved in gang affiliation, criminal justice system, criminal exploitation. We have supported these individuals to prevent reoffending through stable accommodation, positive choices through key work, volunteering opportunities, working with other key professionals to ensure that they all given a chance, to prevent marginalisation to prevent them from limiting their ability to secure basic needs rebuild their lives and successfully then reintegrate into the community. 6. Saving Costs to benefit the Community: By providing safe and quality accommodation and support, This is having a long term impact with the reduction of costs to emergency services, the local authority to provide temporary accommodation, hospital admissions and beds and aa reduction in prisoner costs, as recent reports have shown that it costs more to do prisons it costs more to house prisoners than it does with our accommodation.

Adil Yaqoob Khan (Director), local authority, community mental health team, police. There has been no stakeholder consultation.

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