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Our Support
What We Do
At Cornerstones, we instinctively understand how daunting it is for young people to adapt into the independent living program. It is not an easy transition for young people, therefore it is our goal to equip them with skills necessary to lead autonomous lives.
Each young person will be supported and allocated a Key Worker to enable them achieve set goals. The Key Worker will be the first point of contact for the young person and they will support, promote independence and wellbeing as well as taking into account the young person’s views and opinions, allowing them to lead with their decision, providing it is in the interests of the young person.
Our support workers are able to accomplish the following and not limited to:
- Budgeting skills
- Independent cleaning/ health and safety awareness
- Access education/Leisure and Community activities
- Support with hygiene
- Cooking skills
- Gang culture awareness
- Sexual health, drug awareness and legal responsibility awareness
- Immigration supportCultural awareness, such as taking the yp shopping so the yp can access their traditional foods
Outcomes
Every Child Matters have become an intrinsic element of our care and education provisions, it continues to shape our practice and provide us with tangible aims and objectives necessary to champion the welfare of young people. In addition to our daily work, the outcomes framework has lent additional structure to our placement and pathway planning and provided our services with clearer, more concise long term objectives.
Being Healthy
Healthy bodies and minds are essential for young people during their development and therefore health promotion is a key area of our care practice and delivery. To achieve this we maintain productive relationships with local health professionals and the area LAC team.
Staying Safe
We encourage our young people to be safe from accidental injury and death, safe from bullying and discrimination, safe from crime and anti-social behaviour in and out of school.
Achieving Economic Wellbeing
In respect of their preparation to independent living each young person will have an individual pathway plan followed by staff to ensure they are well equipped with life skills necessary to thrive and prosper and adults.
Enjoying
and Achieving
We will support our young people will be to achieve National Educational Standards in primary schools, achieve personal and social developments and enjoy recreation, achieve National Educational Standards in secondary schools.
Making a Positive Contribution
We value the positive contributions our young people make and we actively encourage them to engage in law abiding and positive behaviour both in and out of school and we endeavour to teach and support this behaviour.