Your Own Place CIC

preventing homelessness

Tenancy & Independent Living Skills Plus (TILS+) workshops


A tenancy sustainment and skills development

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We prevent homelessness. We empower people to sustain their tenancy by drawing out their knowledge, skills and resilience as the experts in their own lives and sharing these in their peer group with their new connections.

We develop inter-dependence as the route to resilience, prevention and avoiding crisis. A partnership with us is a partnership that adds value to your existing tenancy support.

Our group workshop offer is engaging, interactive, fun and works

Watch below what our trainees think

Trainees walk away with the skills, knowledge, confidence and resilience they need to keep their home

How it works: 

    1. We start with an engagement workshop – with you and/or residents to co-produce the intervention, get to know each other and see what our workshops are really like
    2. Together we develop a trainee Engagement Strategy – to get trainees there and to keep them there! 
    3. We design the content and agree the outcomes together – we can deliver 15 modules in three days
    4. You have an easy online referral link and then we follow up to introduce ourselves to the trainees
    5. We provide all the resources, refreshments and digital support, if needed, too
    6. We can provide venues and arrange risk assessments
    7. Workshops are inclusive, games-based, engaging, fun, visual, and creative. They are adapted for different learning styles and learning difficulties
    8. Groups never have more than eight people
    9. Our core offer runs for three consecutive days 10am – 4pm with lots of breaks – but we can be flexible
    10. Trainees get a certificate to help access housing and demonstrate their new skills
    11. You get a final project impact report
    12. We provide two DBS checked and highly skilled facilitators

Does it work? 

People who understand their responsibilities as well as what makes a good tenant are much more likely to sustain healthy long-term tenancies without the need for costly interventions. Our workshops have a positive impact on trainee confidence and empower them to find their own positive solutions to life’s challenges.

Trainees tell us they feel listened to and that it’s not like school

Outcomes:

– Over 80% retention on our workshops over three days

– 87% of trainees with improved tenancy skills

– 61% feel more confident as tenants

– 82% report having increased understanding of their bills

– 72% have increased knowledge of how to be a good tenant

Watch Darren to find out why he attended a workshop

Our excellent feedback is down to how we work. We facilitate restorative and asset-based Pinpoint (c) workshops unlike anything trainees have experienced before.  Workshops are in small groups, with no writing, no judgement and often no desks at all.  Trainees are on their feet, playing games, having fun, laughing and learning together

Trainees tell us they didn’t know how much they knew

You can find out more about adding on our Plus Employability support and modules here.

Get in touch with Rebecca:

rebecca@yourownplace.org.uk
07530 028446