The Home Offers

The Home offers for self contained studio rooms within the large house in Walthamstow. . Each room has its own bathroom/shower thus providing privacy and self sufficiency.

Alongside the registered home, we provide a move - on outreach service for young people age 16+. The outreach service is offered through independent accommodation in the community.

The residential home offers tailored packages of support and intervention designed to meet individual needs and bring about positive change. It offers a homely environment where young people can feel safe, develop confidence and make choices about their lives. Ongoing assessment of the young people’s development is an integral part of the work.

Our aim is to equip young people with the skills and coping mechanism to build self confidence, self sufficiency and independence. Education is offered where necessary through tutoring. Our self development workshops and other group initiatives is aimed at developing self confidence, pride, healthy self esteem and life and social skills.
Young people are offered medium to high level supervision. Those exhibiting challenging behaviour will be deemed high risk and the input will be adjusted/increase as required.

Close liaison is maintained with the referring agencies and other professionals concerned with the welfare of the young people; attending meetings and providing reports as required. We also strive to work in partnership with families where appropriate and in the young people’s best interest.

Models for working

At Nailah House our model for working is rooted in the ‘Person Centered, ’‘Solution Focus’ ‘Task Centered’ approach, thus enabling our young people to identify areas for change and to focus on desired outcomes. We value each young person as individuals and believe that each of them, given the right environment and motivation, has the capacity to achieve positive change. Young people will be coached towards achieving positive change

Objectives

Young people are prepared by enabling them to achieve the following opportunities.

• Practice managing their day to day living.
• Bulidig positive relationships
• Self management.
• Develop skills to live independently

The home opened in January 2001 and welcomed its first resident on 5th March that year. We have been going from strength to strength since then and have successfully cared for and supported many young people to achieve positive change. Over the years we have built up a reputation for working effectively with difficult teenagers and achieving behavioural change with some youngsters exhibiting very challenging behaviour. Past residents have remained in contact with us and we have continued the support long after they have left.

Nailah House has worked successfully with the following groups of young people;

• Young people with violent and aggressive behaviour.
• Self harmers.
• Young people with high level drug use (heroin and crack users)
• Persistent offenders.
• Persistent absconders.
• Young people with moderate learning disabilities.
• Young people with diagnosed mental health concerns.
• Young people with HIV.
• Sexually exploited females.
• Young mothers and pregnant young women.

Our referrers come back to us year after year and we have consistently achieved ‘good’ inspection ratings. The formula is no secret; it is simply firm boundaries balanced with a caring approach. On hand we have the valued support of a Consultant Psychologist to guide and direct our work. The team at Nailah House are committed to the development of young people and belief that young people, when placed within an environment that is nurturing and safe, have the capacity to achieve positive change in their lives.

You can view our Statement of Purpose online for further details about the service.