Move-on support – 1-2-1 Money, Tenancy & Cost of Living Sessions

Working with Your Own Place helps to reduce rent arrears. 
Since working with Your Own Place, Saffron Housing Trust can report, that as part of a number of measures, they have seen rent arrears decrease from 3.8% to 2.5%’ 

Relationships First

Everything Your Own Place does starts with values, relationships, quality, impact and trust.  We know that people who have previously lived in supported accommodation, are care experienced, have previously experienced homelessness or have experience of custody may need more 1-2-1 support to sustain their tenancy and keep their home once other support has ended. 

That’s why we offer 1-2-1 bespoke tenancy sustainment sessions in people’s homes or other setting just before and after they have moved on. 

This is also why our interventions come from a place of equity, empathy, empowerment and are always informed by lived experience. Your Own Place listens and delivers the flexible services that people themselves say they need. 

Our restorative, participative, coaching and asset-based delivery ultimately helps people improve their money, cost of living and housing knowledge, skills, resilience, networks and confidence.

Why Move-on?

Many people have not had the chance to see, learn or practise these skills elsewhere in the family, at school or in their accommodation setting before they left. All too often tenancies avoidably break down. Your Own Place is filling this gap by working with those at a crucial time and who are most at risk to help them sustain their tenancies and prevent homelessness.

What we do

We design a bespoke programme of 1-2-1 sessions. These are delivered in the lead up to moving on and for up to six months after move-on. Sessions last an hour and are delivered in people’s homes or a local cafe if they prefer and include: 

• All the planning of content and Pinpoint facilitation © methodology, with the most up to date cost of living, welfare benefit and housing information 

• Design of bespoke resources 

• An evaluation methodology that provides the commissioner with a quality final outcomes report

• Any necessary venue arrangements

• Final Your Own Place certificates 

• A bespoke, secure and asset-based referral pathway that enables us to adapt to a variety of neuro-divergent needs

• The option to meet with the trainee before the intervention starts to build the relationship and listen to what they want – to co-design the offer

If you’re providing supported accommodation, a local authority, a charity or in criminal justice and are tired of seeing people come back through the revolving door, we’d love to work with you and those you support to help them sustain their tenancies. Through close partnership planning and engagement with your service, together we ensure that trainees leave not just with the new money, tenancy & housing skills, confidence, knowledge and a network, but the legacy of being able to tackle their future problems too – these are not simply life skills, but skills for life.

How do we know it does everything we say it does?

With more than 24 different modules available we can tackle a comprehensive range of money, cost of living and housing content, because everyone’s situation and needs are different when they move on.  There is is also the option of accreditation.

We work with people at most risk of homelessness – trainees may be care experienced, previously homeless or vulnerably housed or recently out of custody.

Your Own Place has turned only one trainee away since 2013 – because we are experts at engagement, inclusive in everything we do and build trusting relationships with people others don’t, won’t or can’t work with

We have 84% retention on our sessions, showing the strength of our approaches and relationships 

What do trainees themselves say?

Trainees tell us that it helps them to understand what help is available for when they are in their own place

Trainees tell us we are non-judgemental and we make them feel safe

Trainees tell us it proves to them just how much they do know and can do – it boosts their confidence 

Trainees tell us about setting themselves financial and life goals and getting the help to achieve them after the sessions showed them how  

80% of trainees after a sessions feel more confident about how to pay their bills

82% of trainees after a session feel more confident about managing debt

Nearly 100% of our trainees say they would recommend our sessions