About CAYSH:

As a London based Charity, CAYSH has been delivering services to vulnerable and homeless Young People aged 16-25 since 1981, offering safe homes, support and advice to enable them to achieve their potential.

The Young People we serve play a crucial role in the design of our service delivery and the appointment of our Young People's Ambassador supports to ensure best impact.

CAYSH operates services in a number of Boroughs across the UK, partnering with Local Authorities to support our communities. We place our Young People at the heart of all we do and listen and learn from their experiences.

We Provide:

·       Supported Accommodation (24/7 Assessment Centre / Small shared housing staffed and unstaffed / Supported Lodgings)

·       Floating Support

·       Mediation - ‘restoring families and maintaining tenancies

·       Mental Health Counselling

·       Night Concierge 

·       Employment Mentoring

Our Team:

Our team comprises of a diverse Board of Trustees, Senior Leadership Team and Operations Staff who are all dedicated to our cause to best support the homeless and vulnerable Young People we serve.

Our Mission:

Provide safe and decent accommodation for young people facing homelessness along with advice and support that can enable our service users to live independently and sustainably

Create and develop inspired services so that those facing homelessness have access to safe homes and better futures

Identify and generate opportunities for our service users to engage in activities that build confidence and ability

Work within communities to ensure our service users and their neighbours are safe and create community engagement opportunities.

Values:

Our values provide the framework within which we work embracing the diversity of our staff and service users.

·       Commitment

·       Fairness

·       Inclusivity

·       Responsiveness

·       Compassion

·       Professionalism

Our Strengths:

Specialist services for young people facing homelessness providing advice, support and accommodation and take a ‘whole family approach’.

Part of the solution for delivering public services – building community and personal resilience.

CAYSH Service User Ambassador – employed service user to provide feedback and service development.

Focussed on prevention and safeguarding, meeting young people’s needs by bridging children and adult homelessness services.

Creating high quality outcomes for young people and commissioners/funders – young people centred solutions.

Experienced, professionalised, agile and competitive charity and social enterprise.

Applying for Ofsted registration.