Moving On
Moving On is a housing support service, commissioned by Glasgow Homeless Partnership and Glasgow Addiction Service. The service provides temporary accommodation for individuals who are over 18 years of age, experiencing homelessness and have taken steps to resolve their drug misuse issues.
Moving On is designed for individuals who are over 18 years of age, who are homeless or in temporary accommodation. The individual will be striving to gain independent living, but at present requires housing support. They will have a history of drug related issues and be motivated to take appropriate steps to address these.
Accommodation
Moving On, Drumchapel
The Drumchapel site provides five 2 bedroom fully furnished flats for a period of around six to 12 months. Three of the flats are provided for two people to share, the remaining two flats are suitable for child access. The child access flats can be used by individuals whose children are currently in the care of another party but there are access arrangements in place.
Moving on, Maryhill
The Maryhill site provides ten fully furnished flats for a period of around six to 12 months. There is a fully wheelchair accessible flat which has two bedrooms and a further six 1 bedroom flats and three 2 bedroom flats.
Support staff are based in a staff flat on both sites and will provide 24 hour support. The staff flat's are used as office bases for staff and a drop in area for tenants.
Aims of the Service
- To promote recovery from substance misuse and homelessness.
- To provide a person centered package of support, which is regularly monitored and reviewed.
- To support individuals to maximize skills involved in independent living such as budgeting, managing bills, maximizing benefits, tenancy management, neighbour relations, balanced diet, food shopping, housework and door management.
- To encourage integration into the local and wider community.
- To support the development of social networks.
- To provide information relating to health promotion and to take opportunities to promote this.
- To support individuals to access work experience and/or training opportunities as appropriate.
- To access, plan and assist in securing and move to appropriate permanent accommodation.
The service works in partnership with Glasgow City Council Addiction Teams who provide care management and addiction support to all individuals using the service.
Referrals
Referral pack can be obtained from the contact details below and should be accompanied with Glasgow City Council single shared assessment for homelessness or addiction.
Contact Details:
Moving On
Flat 0/4
1 Shawpark Court
Maryhill
Glasgow G20 9AG
T: 0141 946 5870
F: 0141 945 2351
E: patriciatracey@turningpointscotland.com
