Manchester and Trafford House Project Graduation

This is the start of the beginning for some of our young people on the House Project. The young people of Manchester and Trafford came together today to celebrate their successes throughout the programme. These young people have now completed the first combined cohort and have been on an incredible journey, where they have learnt about themselves, built up their confidence and self-esteem as well as becoming more interdependent, self-resilient and creating great relationships with their peers and facilitators.

We have established some great partnerships with the local housing providers who have offered us some fantastic opportunities of a variety of different properties and have worked so well in understanding the different needs of our young people and been patient whilst we supported them to get their documents and applications ready to sign their new tenancies. 

Today at the graduation we were able to share stories and experiences of some of the young people's journey. One quote which has stuck with me from the residential was where a young person said, "I love it out here, it's not often I can walk down the street and don't feel threatened or think I have to look over my back", some of these experiences will have a massive impact on our young people and leave them with positive memories and moments which will impact their lives forever!  

Whilst on the programme we have adapted our approach to be able to support our young people's needs and individuality, for example, for one of our young people when she moved into her own property didn't want a TV in her lounge which we assumed every young person would want, but she was more than happy to use her laptop and preferred to play her guitar and listen to her music in her lounge.