Empowering Lives
Transforming Housing Support
We offer dedicated accommodation and support tailored to your needs.
Supported Exempt accommodation
At Sahara Housing Association, we specialize in providing supported accommodation that meets individual needs. Our experienced team is dedicated to enhancing your living experience while ensuring a supportive community environment. Understand the unique benefits we offer, from personalized tenant support to effective property management, all aimed at helping you thrive.
Our organization is dedicated to providing hope and support to those who need it the most. We believe that everyone deserves a chance to live a fulfilling life, and that through our efforts, we can make a real difference in the world. We are successfully delivering exempt supported accommodation for vulnerable people in Birmingham/ Bradford. Our service is focussed on inclusivity and a customised approach to ensure we achieve positive outcomes for our service users.
The support given to people depends on their needs. It can include:
- Access to treatment services for alcohol, drug or health problems.
- Help with getting benefits.
- Developing independent living skills, such as budgeting and cooking.
- Increasing physical and mental wellbeing, including the ability to cope in a crisis.
- Encouragement to reconnect with family and friends, or develop new social networks.
- Assistance in taking up education, training and employment opportunities.
Psychologically-Informed Environments
Core to the delivery of our great services, is the development of our psychologically informed environments and services, known as PIEs. This approach:
- Increases positive behaviour by increasing self-worth, esteem, belief and hope.
- Reducing challenging or aggressive conduct.
- Ensures customers stay in our support longer by reducing abandonments and evictions.
- Achieves the most positive outcome for each person as they identify their own goal or ambition, and direct how they would like to use our support in order to achieve that outcome.
Supported Accommodation
Our supported accommodation provides a safe and welcoming space, tailored to facilitate your independence.
Our team is available around the clock to assist you with any needs that arise. We pride ourselves on being responsive and ensuring you never feel alone in your journey.
Tenant Support
We offer personal assistance to help you navigate your housing situation and access essential services. We work closely with each tenant to develop tailored support plans. By understanding your unique situation, we create an environment where you can truly thrive.
Community Integration
Joining a community is vital for well-being. We facilitate connections to local resources and support networks that promote social interaction and inclusion.
Supported Housing Services and Schemes
Your Home Awaits
Take the first step in your housing journey with us.
- Safe and stable accommodation provided.
- Personalised support to navigate housing needs.
- Dedicated team ensuring your comfort and security.
People often leave prison with underlying support needs. The period of transition from custody to community can often be extremely challenging, particularly for individuals lacking the right support to find a job or somewhere to live. So ex-offenders can find themselves homeless or back in prison.
We have developed services to integrate ex-offenders back into society by accessing education, training and work opportunities. Our specialist teams work with each individual to identify how they can fit back into their communities, including how they can give back positively.
The group-based community activities they are encouraged to undertake not only help each person re-integrate back into their community, but also give them the resilience of being supported by a group, making it more likely they will make a positive fresh start.
Our services include:
- Support to prevent re-offending including coordinating between a range of agencies.
- Helping people who have drug or alcohol rehab needs have a successful prison release via our Through the Gate service.
- Working with health professionals to address any mental health conditions.
- Managing money and accessing benefits.
- Operating a range of floating support and accommodation.
- Support in finding suitable accommodation, working towards independent living.
- Enjoying and achieving in activities and both paid and voluntary work.
- Partnering with other organisations to access services which build confidence and skills.
By working with prisoners in the run up to discharge, then prison-leavers post-discharge we help them access the right range of support to successfully move beyond offending behaviour patterns. Homelessness features in many people’s reoffending pathways. Ex-prisoners are more likely to struggle with finding accommodation.
Through our network of housing centres we are able to support people to move away from offending. Our prison-based housing advice service, where we work alongside prison accommodation and support services ensures a comprehensive package of support is in place before release.
Employment & Training
Sahara Housing is fully committed to finding innovative ways of supporting our customers via a programme of training opportunities from volunteering and peer mentoring, through to apprenticeships and employment opportunities within our Partner organisation. For most people building self-confidence and helping them to access training, volunteering and employment opportunities is a gateway to a new life.
Take the Next Step with Us
Connect with us today to learn more about how we can help you find the right support. Whether you have questions or are ready to begin your journey with our housing services, we’re here for you. Your well-being is our priority, and we look forward to assisting you.
Frequently Asked Questions
We provide supported accommodation and tenant support services, to assist individuals in finding safe, affordable housing solutions.
You can reach out to us through our website contact form or give us a call. Our team is here to help you navigate your housing support needs.
Supported accommodation offers individuals a safe living environment with the necessary support tailored to their needs, promoting independence and community integration.
Our services are available to individuals in need of housing support, including those facing challenges related to mental health, disability, or financial difficulties.
We value your feedback. You can share your thoughts about our services through the contact form on our website or during your next appointment with us.