Pathwaze supported living accommodation primarily targets at risk adults aged 18 plus years old.
Pathwaze was set up in February 2016 with the vision of transforming lives and empowering individuals who feel isolated from society, helping them to re-engage and become effective members.
We work in partnership with our service users to encourage and assist the choices they make by empowering them to find the right path for their lives. The level of assistance given to each service user is agreed upon from the onset and we understand that each service user’s level of support will vary dependent on their need. Once the need is established we form a partnership and an agreement is signed between the service user and Pathwaze.
All our current properties are based in the South of London
Our Aims
We’ll Show You the Way to Find Your Path
Aim for Service Users
- To enable our service users to maintain independent living and to increase self-esteem through empowering them to seek training or employment which would result in community inclusion.
- To offer good housing standards so that our service users have homes that provide secure, safe and comfortable environments.
- To empower service users to improve general lifestyle and wellbeing.
- To provide step by step support to enable and develop new skills through our dynamic holistic approach.
- To value and respect the service user.
- To assist service users in breaking down barriers that restricts them from participating and living within the community effectively.
Organisational Aims
- To tackle discrimination and ensure equality of opportunity is achieved in all aspects of our work; providing support, guidance and education to our clients and other agencies.
- To manage our resources in a cost-effective way whilst maximising the quality and standard of our services.
- To achieve measurable success in enabling people to make the changes that are required to achieve stable lives
- To work with a range of stakeholders, including service users and other agencies to ensure that we continually evaluate, reflect and improve our services.
- To represent the needs, rights, aspirations and experiences of service users who require supported housing and to promote the ways in which these can be met, including influencing policy at local and national levels.
Accommodation
Living in our supported housing properties allows our service users to have a space they can call their own. It is a space where they feel safe and are assured by the fact that care and extra support is close by and easily accessible when they require it.
All our accommodation is semi-independent and are visited by outreach staff between the hours of 8am-9pm seven days a week to ensure the safeguarding of our service users.
Every effort is made to create a warm and homely environment in all our properties.
We strongly believe that supported housing, need not look and feel institutional.
All tenants are encouraged to personalise their rooms by gradually buying items which they will take with them when they move on. We want them to feel at home.
Employees
All employees have undergone training to meet the diverse demands of our service users. They have been trained to deal with challenging behaviours and complex needs. Some of the areas of training include substance abuse, counselling and mental health training. Throughout the year, employees attend a wide range of training and personal development courses to equip them to work effectively and professionally with our service users. This also ensures that we reinforce our good practices and are also up to date with policies and methods of working with the vulnerable. Safeguarding both our staff and service users hold strong value and high importance to the way we work.
Out of Hours Service
Tenants in all our properties can contact a member staff for assistance 24 hours a day.
On-call members of staff are available to respond to emergencies 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Client testimonial
“I left prison in 2016 and Pathwaze contacted me about 2 months after my release. I did not think that they would actually be able to help me because I had companies that said they would but never actually did anything.
Pathwaze made sure that I was accountable to myself by ensuring I attend my probation appointments and other important appointments I needed to get to. They checked in on my wellbeing – in fact, they would never leave me alone they kept nagging me and always kept me on my toes.
As a result, I had to learn patience, I learnt it because they were patient with me. I eventually started to open up to my Support Worker and they made sure that I was doing what I was supposed to do to keep in line. They kept me out of trouble, to be honest. I started to feel like I wanted more for myself and felt motivated to get into work. I was volunteering at a local soup kitchen, this also helped with my development.
My support workers have always been accessible, I can always contact them and they listened to my needs – see what happens when the right people help! Pathwaze helped me to get my own social housing, I am excited to start moving in. I now have a more positive view of life and now have proof that things are achievable. Look at me now, I couldn’t see myself how I am now 3 years ago. I now have a fulltime job and would like to go to university to be a youth worker. Thank you Pathwaze for everything.”