DePaul

Depaul UK helps young people across the UK who are homeless, vulnerable and disadvantaged. We are passionate about what we do, working in the very heart of local communities. We prevent young people from becoming homeless by rebuilding family relationships. We provide young people with the chance to fulfil their potential through education, volunteering, training and jobs. In this way they become part of the community.

Spokes Project: central London
Spokes educates, empowers and enables disadvantaged and homeless young people to access and sustain appropriate accommodation solutions, develop key employment skills and re-engage with education. The programme also includes health advice and promotes healthy lifestyle options alongside structured money management sessions offering support and guidance around budgeting, benefits and banking. This programme encompasses our Drive Ahead project and a personal effectiveness course for 17 to 25 year olds that includes driving tuition and key life skills tuition.

Broadening Horizons (work experience programme)
Our Broadening Horizons scheme, in partnership with HSBC, offers work placements for young people in a range of different environments to give them a taste of employment and to break down the barriers that exist for young homeless and disadvantaged people to build a career.

HMP Rochester HMP ISIS Outside Link helps young prisoners to secure accommodation prior to release from prison, in order to prevent them from becoming homeless and re-offending. It also aims to set up support networks into the community where they will be living on their release and provides access to Family Mediation services.

Outside Link (Impact - London Probation Resettlement Service)
A London wide programme funded by London Probation that provides young people up to the age of 25 who are serving a 12 month sentence or less with family mediation, mentoring and a resettlement service. We take referrals from all London prisons, working with 12 prisons; Rochester, Cookham Wood, Pentonville, Holloway Feltham, Wormwood Scrubs, Brixton, Wandsworth, East Sutton Park, Aylesbury, Portland and Bronzefield.

One-to-One Project
The One-to-One Project is a mentoring programme for young offenders aged 16 to 21. Depaul UK and women@thewell have been funded by the Ministry of Justice to run services aimed at diverting women from custody. Working in partnership, the two organisations will provide centre-based services, accommodation and community support to help prevent offending behaviour and enable vulnerable young women to get their lives back on track. Many of the women we will be working with will have histories of rough sleeping, chaotic drug and alcohol use, prostitution and low-level acquisitive crime. We will respond with a whole range of services designed to put a jigsaw of support together to help the women break out of the cycles of abuse and exclusion they are caught up in, and to equip them with the skills and resources they need to rejoin society.

Web: www.depauluk.org