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Transition planning
Supporting your young person to plan for their future and for moving out of the family home can be a scary time for everyone. Managing your young person and your own concerns and anxieties is probably the biggest emotional aspect of the project.
Thinking about the transition plan as your project starts moving can help you find opportunities to ensure everyone is involved in the project.
Transition Planning for Inclusive Project Involvement:
- Your young people being part of developing a shared vision for what they want their lives to look like
- Building relationships between everyone who will live together to make sure they want to live together and are compatible
- Being part of designing and decorating helps people have ownership over the new house and builds excitement
- Building routines and strong relationships with staff before people move in
- Staggering people moving in, doing practice runs and sleep overs so people get used to their new home
We wanted to get the transition right and our planning for that really started from the beginning, in helping our three young men understand what was happening and being part of making decisions about the house. We had an advocate work with them over 3 years, and it helped us all think about what was important. We wanted an independent way of making sure this was what they wanted. In terms of actually moving in we found out that housing benefit will only pay for one month of transition, we had to plan around this because it wasn't long enough for our young men.