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Your Place to Live - Making It Happen

A manual, DVD and CD Rom to help people with learning disabilities and their families plan housing and support.

Your Place to Live was created by Claire Hall and Alicia Wood, on behalf of Notting Hill Home Ownership and Ealing Mencap. It provides people with learning disabilities and their carers with basic information on a full range of housing and support choices.

The DVD shows six people with learning disabilities that have moved into different types of accommodation with different types of support. They explain why they moved and the options they chose, the new skills they have learned and how moving has affected their social lives and relationships. There are also interviews with family members who used to be the primary carers, support workers and other people who have been involved in the moves.

The manual is a simple self-assessment tool that will provide care managers and advisors with the information they need to support individuals into person-centred housing and support options. It takes away the need for care managers and advisors to be experts in housing and empowers people with learning disabilities and their carers to take the lead in making housing and support choices.

Available to order from Housing Options -
phone: 0845 4561497
e.mail: enquiries@housingoptions.org.uk

Your Place to Live - Making it Happen
Claire Hall and Alicia Wood. Housing Options, 2001

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