Help with housing
The Housing service aims to provide support to women who are:
Over 18 and experiencing, or at risk of, domestic violence and live in or want to resettle into Haringey.
Please Note: Our eligibility criteria must be fulfilled to ensure you are entitled to support at the Forum.
Support is provided for a limited time, with the aim of enabling the Service User to develop their confidence and self reliance until they are able to live independently without sustained support.
The following are examples of Housing Support that can be provided through the Support Workers:
· Understanding the rights and obligations of the Tenancy Agreement
· Advice, advocacy and liaison
· Help in sustaining a tenancy and household management
· Assistance with personal safety and security
· Help in tenancy set up e.g. gas connection
· Developing domestic skills, life skills, social and economical skills and behavioral skills
· Claiming welfare benefits
· Emotional support, counselling and advice
· Supervision and assistance with well being, health and medication
· Managing debts, bills and finances and budgeting
· Peer support and befriending
· Help with accessing and using services in the community
· Accessing employment and education
· Help with making a Complaint
· Help with seeking more suitable alternative accommodation
· Help and assistance with shopping
· Liaison and advocacy on cultural and ethnic issues
· Culture specific counselling and support
· Security support regarding domestic violence and harassment
How We Operate:
To receive support from our housing team, you need to fit the eligibility criteria. We take referrals either from individual women or through other agencies.
We will complete an Initial Contact Form with you and then conduct a Need’s and Risk Assessment on you. Afterwards, we will agree on a support plan and set ourselves an action plan with targets to achieve.
We will meet at least once every two weeks with you and will supply you with a summary which will show details of what is required of you before the next agreed meeting and what we will be doing for you.
Please remember to let us know if you can't make a meeting.