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Autism & Semi Independent Living

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Stepping Out specialises in accommodating and supporting clients with Autism. We pride ourselves on supporting such service users to become less challenging and more constructive via our semi independent living projects for Autism and our specific outreach support services.

Stepping Out have bee providing Semi Independent Living for Autistic clients throughout London, Hertfordshire and surrounding areas for a number of years.

Our semi independent living projects for Autism are ideal for those whom display challenging behaviour, Sexually Harmful Behaviour, Drug & alcohol abuse, sexualised behaviour, MAPPA cases, self-harm, suicidal tendencies, learning disabilities, Autism and other high support need conditions.

Our 24-hour semi independent provisions for Autism are usually gender and age specific, and each project specialises with accommodating and supporting different client groups, for optimum success. We ensure our placements are safe, homely and have a high probability of producing positive outcomes for all service users. Stepping Out strive to ensure that they provide the best Semi Independent Living In London & Hertfordshire.

 

Throughout years of experience, Stepping Out has formed a three-point plan aimed at combating challenging behavior, and promoting progress in semi indpeendent living environments. Based on years of experience, we’ve compiled a 3 point plan to combat challenging behaviour and promote productivity, and eventually independence.

1. Listen & Learn.

Depending on the service user’s condition, they may have difficulty expressing themselves. This can often be mistaken for challenging behaviour, when really all they want is time to voice their opinion over a matter. In time like these, it is best to sit down somewhere quietly with the service user, and listen to their concerns and issues. Once you have done this, changes can be made in the future to better suit the service user’s needs, thus causing less challenging behaviour. Often a safe place to talk is all they require.

2. Respect their privacy & individuality.

A care worker needs to distinguish good care practise and invasion of privacy. Caring for a service user does not necessarily mean you have to crowd them, and many care workers seem to forget this. You can ensure their safety and promote good practises such as cleaning and cooking without being imposing. Depending on how much care the service user needs, the carer must also allocate time for the service user to have some alone time.

3. Set weekly goals.

Goals lasting longer than a week can often be daunting. The service user can also lose sight of the goal, and begin to forget about its existence. Setting weekly goals allows the service user to by-pass these obstacles. The goals could be to save a certain amount of money, to cook 3 meals independently, and so on. Not only will achieving these goals improve self-esteem, but giving the service user something to concentrate on will also alleviate challenging behaviour.

All the above points will undoubtedly reduce the amount of challenging behaviour the Autistic service user displays to staff and other service users around them. Why not put them into practise and see?

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Sexual Exploitation of children and Semi Independent Living

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Stepping Out is a specialist health and social care provider. One of our specialisms is to ensure the safety of young females at risk of sexual exploitation and or whom have been sexually exploited, this is a short post on sexual exploitation of children.

Sexual exploitation of children is now something that we are coming across more often sadly many young people are afraid to disclose information in fear of being ignored, or worse being treated as though they are not telling the truth.

Over the years those whom sexually exploit young people have been using technology to their advantage, the likes of Facebook, Twitter and most recently Instagram are inadvertently providing a platform for these activities to occur. Although we are seeing a tightening of privacy and security systems on these social networks we are still  finding that those whom seek to sexually exploit children and young adults are finding more innovative ways to do so.

Recently we worked on a case where we believed a young female was at risk of being sexually exploited via Facebook pages that portray themselves as certified modelling agencies. Many young females dream of becoming a model and therefore in order to fulfill their dreams ignore or forget the risks of communicating with such people.

Stepping Out has a vast amount of experience in working with young females at risk of sexual exploitation, we provide safe homely environment with 24 hour on-site supervision and proactive support in order to aid, monitor and ensure the safety of these clients.

Where possible we seek to closely monitor clients and their social network communication and dedicate specific 1-1 time in order to discuss online safety.

We are renowned for our monitoring skill and use common sense plus technology to ensure we are able to keep our clients safe whilst also establishing reasons that trigger negative behaviors. Those young people whom are at risk of sexual exploitation may receive visits from differing males on a regular basis. Our house rules state that visits will need to be vetted before they are able to access the provision, this usually takes 24 hours and will need to be confirmed in writing by the clients social worker, this removes the risk of us allowing residents to socialise with friends whom may be a negative influence and or may be a risk to others. Our provisions are gender specific therefore we do not allow any male visitors unless family or professionals. Our staff members are tasked with taking note of any unusual behaviors around the immediate grounds of the provision to include driveways and parking spaces in order to ensure our young people particularly females are not entering vehicles where they may be at risk, vehicle registration numbers will be noted and passed on to relevant social workers and police if deemed necessary (important to deter others from seeking to exploit/abuse our clients)

For additional information about our gender specific female only semi-independent provisions please contact us on 0208 342 7217 or contact us via email info@stepping-out.org. If you’d like to read our brochure on our semi-independent provisions click here.

 

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Gender Specific Semi Independent Living

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Stepping Out are Gender Specific Semi Independent Living providers, offering 24 hour supported accommodation to vulnerable adults and young people.

We are nationally recognised as one of the UK’s best Gender Specific Semi Independent Living providers. We have years of experienced backed up with intensely training and managed staff, who are always present at our Gender Specific Semi Independent Living projects.

We provide specialist care and support services to children and their families, care leavers and adults with: Challenging Behaviour, Mental Health Issues, Autistic Spectrum Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorders, Learning Disabilities, MAPPA cases, Sexually Harmful & Sexualised Behaviours,  Self-Harm, Suicidal Tendencies, Dual Diagnosis, Alzheimer’s and Early-Onset Dementia.

When you choose to work with Stepping Out, you can be confident that you will receive the highest quality in every package, programme and service that we offer.

Stepping Out is a CQC registered & regulated social care provider delivering person centred care services to children, young people & adults. Our service users have diverse needs, may require low levels, or high levels of support & supervision.

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We at Stepping Out know exactly what Local Authorities expect for their money, therefore we work closely with social workers commissioners and service users by communicating on a regular basis and providing evidence of outcome based reports on a daily basis

This has put Stepping Out High on the providers lists of Local authorities across the UK who are regularly choosing Stepping Out as their first choice provider for social care. This is due to our extensive quality assurance systems, which set into place Firm structured pathways of achieving personal goals and Independence for each individual service user throughout our Services and projects.

Without doubt, we are one of the UK’s leading Gender Specific Semi Independent Living, and we’re constantly striving to improve.

Our core responsibilities are to aid young people with severe challenging behaviour on to independence. The majority of clients we work with have issues ranging from self-harm, self-neglect and suicidal tendencies to those with autism and offenders involved in moderate to serious gang violence.

Stepping Out accommodate these young people within small homely environments, this enables us to ensure the young people are safe, supported and supervised at all times, our projects are known for their experienced and proactive 24 hour on-site staff.

Importantly we operate gender specific projects i.e. male only or female only homes. We have found that this is positive for the young people involved, their families and professionals, operating in this way reduces incidents caused by social male -female relationships, which can at times be emotional harmful and cause a home to breakdown.

Contact us today if you need to place a young person between the ages of 16-18 whom displays challenging behaviour, and would benefit from a Gender Specific Semi Independent Living provision with 24 hour on site staffing.

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Semi Independent Living & Challenging Behaviour

By Kaya Ismail No CommentsPosted in BlogTags: ,

Stepping Out specialises in accommodating and supporting clients with challenging behaviours. We pride ourselves on supporting such service users to become less challenging and more constructive via our semi independent living projects and our specific outreach support services.  Based on years of experience, we’ve compiled a 3 point plan to combat challenging behaviour and promote productivity, and eventually independence.

Stepping Out have bee providing Semi Independent Living throughout London, Hertfordshire and surrounding areas for a number of years.

Our semi independent living projects are ideal for those whom display challenging behaviour, Sexually Harmful Behaviour, Drug & alcohol abuse, sexualised behaviour, MAPPA cases, self-harm, suicidal tendencies, learning disabilities, Autism and other high support need conditions.

Our 24-hour semi independent provisions are usually gender and age specific, and each project specialises with accommodating and supporting different client groups, for optimum success. We ensure our placements are safe, homely and have a high probability of producing positive outcomes for all service users. Stepping Out strive to ensure that they provide the best Semi Independent Living In London & Hertfordshire.

Throughout years of experience, Stepping Out has formed a three-point plan aimed at combating challenging behavior, and promoting progress in semi indpeendent living environments.

1. Listen & Learn.

Depending on the service user’s condition, they may have difficulty expressing themselves. This can often be mistaken for challenging behaviour, when really all they want is time to voice their opinion over a matter. In time like these, it is best to sit down somewhere quietly with the service user, and listen to their concerns and issues. Once you have done this, changes can be made in the future to better suit the service user’s needs, thus causing less challenging behaviour. Often a safe place to talk is all they require.

2. Set weekly goals.

Goals lasting longer than a week can often be daunting. The service user can also lose sight of the goal, and begin to forget about its existence. Setting weekly goals allows the service user to by-pass these obstacles. The goals could be to save a certain amount of money, to cook 3 meals independently, and so on. Not only will achieving these goals improve self-esteem, but giving the service user something to concentrate on will also alleviate challenging behaviour.

3. Respect their privacy & individuality.

A care worker needs to distinguish good care practise and invasion of privacy. Caring for a service user does not necessarily mean you have to crowd them, and many care workers seem to forget this. You can ensure their safety and promote good practises such as cleaning and cooking without being imposing. Depending on how much care the service user needs, the carer must also allocate time for the service user to have some alone time.

All the above points will undoubtedly reduce the amount of challenging behaviour the service user displays to staff and other service users around them. Why not put them into practise and see?

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