For this task you should read the resource file ‘What matters most?. Here you?ll find two pages from the Key Housing website, ‘Our principles? and ‘What matters most?. Key Housing was set up in 1977 by parents who wanted to improve accommodation for people with learning disabilities, particularly with a view to finding alternatives to institutional care. Today it is a Registered Housing Association supporting over 800 people throughout Scotland and with more than 1000 staff working to support people. The housing they provide is small scale and aims to be integrated into local communities.
Read through the pages from Key Housing?s website contained in the resource file, available to download below. What do you think someone wanting to move out of an institution like Lennox Castle might need to make the successful move ‘from care to citizenship? that Jan Walmsley mentions in her reader chapter?
Think about this question as you read the resource file, ‘What matters most?. Under the download link, you?ll find listed the five headings from ‘What matters most?, with some space for you to note down your thoughts.
View documentA home
What might be needed to make a successful transition?
Interactive content appears here. Please visit the website to use it.Your own money to pay the rent; a space you have chosen yourself and which is only for you to use; liking the people you live with; feeling at home in this home.
Being respected
What might be needed to make a successful transition?
Interactive content appears here. Please visit the website to use it.Feeling that other people know what sort of a person you are, your likes and dislikes and the things you want to do; being able to join in with others; getting help and support when you want or need it; being helped to feel good about yourself.
Good friends
What might be needed to make a successful transition?
Interactive content appears here. Please visit the website to use it.Having support workers you can trust and who help to maintain and develop your circles of support, including friends and family; knowing that someone can speak up for you when necessary.
Getting out and about
What might be needed to make a successful transition?
Interactive content appears here. Please visit the website to use it.Support to get to know more about the area you?ll be living in, including things you?d like to join in with and finding out where you?ll be given a welcome.
Realising ambition
What might be needed to make a successful transition?
Interactive content appears here. Please visit the website to use it.Being supported to do the things you?ve always wanted to do.
Key Housing has worked with people with learning disabilities to identify what is most important if someone is to make a success of living in the community. For your next task you?ll be seeing how this can work out in practice.
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