Stepping Out offers a specialist cost effective outreach support service.
Our outreach support package is personalised in order to provide support to clients whom have varying needs yet whom usually display challenging behaviours.
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In house and outreach support for NEET Clients: (Education, Employment and Training Services)
Contact us for more information about our training, education and employment options on 0208 342 7217.
Semi Independent Living (Base)
Our Base package is a cost effective option yet still ensures that the semi-independent living provision is staffed 24 hours per day. Our base package includes the following:
• Support with food preparation 3x daily
• Support with maintaining a clean and safe living environment
• Daily Reflective Support on conduct and behaviour
• Managing Incidents
We integrate a higher level of 1-1 support within the initial two weeks of placement in order to aid a client with the following:
Appointments
Support the client to register with the GP, dentist and also the Opticians; In addition to this the client will be supported to attend new patient check-ups.
Social integration/inclusion:
It is important that the client is aided to settle in to the local area as soon as possible in order to ensure there are no barrier to engagement. Community based 1-1 support will be provided to make the client aware of local transport links and other local facilities to include banks, libraries, jobcentre plus’ and other organisations/locations.
Social workers/ commissioners are able to purchase additional service user specific support tasks, for example: Support with substance misuse, support with food and grocery shopping, employability skills, training courses. We offer a vast array of bespoke support packages, contact us for further information.
Call us on : 0208 342 7217
Stepping Out has recently been inundated with referrals. Mainly, our referrals consist of young people and adults displaying severe challenging behaviour. It seems these referrals are being made after various placement breakdowns have taken place. Stepping Out continues to support the ideology that prevention is the key to ensuring a placement is successful.
Here are some Important factors to consider when choosing a provider for clients displaying severe challenging behaviour, or who have a history of repeated placement breakdown:
Stepping Out work with various local authorities on a national scale and offer small, homely, semi-independent living projects staffed 24 hours per day and accommodate no more than 5 service users per project. Our risk assessments ensure that many incidents are prevented and our polices are continually updated in order to reduce incidents occurring.
Example Incident:
Service user alleges that his Laptop was stolen by another service user, an incident occurs causing a placement breakdown; the laptop may not have existed.
Stepping Out’s Solution:
All service users must sign a valuable belongings policy, stating their possessions, a staff member must confirm that these possessions exist. This policy is updated regularly in order for us to keep record of any new valuable items. False allegations pertaining to the loss of valuable items are greatly reduced.
Working to reduce placement breakdowns:
Usually a placement breaks down because a client is involved in an incident and or the client displays behaviour that could not be managed, reduced.
Stepping Out ensures their staff members pay regular attention to potential triggers and any patterns that may form prior to an incident. We cannot guarantee an incident will not occur, however Stepping Out will work to find out why the incident occurred, take note of the triggers and engage the client directly, we are open minded and use a relaxed approach. Our clients will be challenging and we are aware of that, therefore we must engage with them so that we are able to ascertain why the client became challenging.
Our experienced approach usually means that a client will inform us that they caused this incident because of x, y or z, they may even tell us what the exact triggers were and in most cases will highlight how regularly occurring incidents can be reduced. Making a placement with Stepping Out will ensure you know as much as possible about the client and their needs.
Types of clients we support:
Stepping Out specialises in offering small, homely, semi-independent projects to young people and adults mainly with severe challenging behaviour which usually encompasses many differing traits to include those diagnosed under the autistic spectrum disorder, generalised learning difficulties, sexualised and sexually harmful behaviour and those whom have suicidal tendencies, self-harm, gang violence, substance misuse etc.
Stepping out offers service user specific projects, the projects are also gender specific and have differing set ups, for example some of our projects will only accommodate 1 client whereas other projects can accommodate up to 5. Importantly, our main priority is to set realistic boundaries and proactively aid our clients move on to a more independent setting.
Feel free to contact us if you have a client whom you feel would benefit from our services.
0208 342 7217.
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