Aspirations
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Anchor House strongly believes that everyone has an ability within them to achieve success in life, whatever the term ’success’ means to that person.
Our aim at Anchor House is to help our residents tackle and overcome life’s barriers and obstacles, the expected and the unexpected, so they may realise and accept for themselves that they have the skills and talents necessary to be happy and successful in life.
This aim gave birth to what we call, the Aspirations Programme.
The journey of realisation and change begins as soon as a previously homeless person arrives at Anchor House.
Many arrive at our doorstep feeling totally demoralised and broken, carrying on their shoulders a variety of complicated and troubling issues, with very little faith and barely any sense of optimism.
A large number of our residents have been made homeless for the first time; they feel alone, shocked and scared, lost in their new world, with no trust or assurance that there is a chance that they can get their lives back on track.
That’s when we welcome them into the Aspirations Programme.
We help our residents to get back on the road to their own future, through working with them to develop their individually tailored Personal Development Plan, and then through education, training and guidance to help them:
- Develop new found aspirations for the future – to help them recognise and understand that there is hope for a better present and then for what comes next
- Regain self-confidence and self-esteem
- Tackle any drug and alcohol problems, as appropriate
- Defeat loneliness and depression
- Becoming better money managers and to help sort out any debt problems
- Work on rebuilding external relationships – addressing such issues as family breakdowns
- Attain relevant NVQ level qualifications that can help them on their way, back into full time employment
- Bringing an end to often long-term unemployment issues, and
- Acquiring other fundamental skills to help deal with life’s stresses and challenges
We then set to work on developing what we call an “Outcomes Star” which was was introduced as an extension of the residents’ personal development journey.
To find out more about a residents journey once they arrive at Anchor House, click here.
