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The St Basils outreach team now has around 12 members of staff with specific roles such as working with young people who have been in care, an accommodation support worker and an employability specialist.
The project has been a success as for the last two years, there have been no under 25s found to be sleeping rough in Birmingham in the government’s annual snapshot count. However, Vanessa says they don’t just work with young people who are rough sleeping, but thoseto stop them getting to that point. “A lot of the young people we support are on a trajectory to rough sleeping and may have had lots of tenancy breakdowns or have barriers to returning home.
Vanessa says that as well as coming across some heartbreaking stories, they have had some wonderful success stories too. They have helped young people who were historically hard-to-reach who are now in longer-term accommodation and have got full-time sustainable jobs. “He was walking through the city centre afterwards and someone actually stopped and asked him for change! It was heartwarming and comical to see his reaction and he said: ‘It’s me!’ but the homeless person asking him for change hadn’t recognised him.
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